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IT  appears  necessary  to  inform  fuch  of  the  Laity  a$ 
are  ^unacquainted  with  the  ufe  of  the  MifTal,  that 
the  Prayers  and  portions  of  Scripture,  of  which  the 
MASS,  or  Liturgy  of  the  Catholic  Church,  is  compofed, 
are  in  part  unalterably  the  fame,  and  partly  different 
every  day.  The  fixed  and  invariable  parts  are  con- 
tained in  what  is  called  the  ORDINARY  OF  THE  MAS*, 
from  pages  xv.  to  xlviii.  inclufively  ;  and  the  changeable 
or  proper  parts,  (viz.  the  INTROITS,  COLLECTS, 
EPISTLES  and  LESSONS,  GRADUAIS  and  TRACTS^ 
GOSPELS,  OFFERTORIES,  SECRETS,  COMMUNIONS 
and  POST  COMMUNIONS),  form  the  fubfequent  contents 
of  the  book.  The  PROPER  PREFACES,  not  being  to 
frequently  fubject  to  change,  follow  each  other  in  regu- 
lar fucceuion  in  the  O  R  D  i  N  A  E  Y  . 

The  Ecclefiaftical  Year,  with  refpeft  to  the  Sundays 
and  Moveable  Feails,  commences  with  the  FIRST 
SUNDAY  of  ADVENT,  and  clofes  with  the  LAST  after 
PENTECOST;  and  with  regard  to  the  Festivals  of  the 
Saints,  from  the  Feaft  of  St.  ANDREW,  the  30th  of 
November,  to  the  Eve  of  the  fame  Feftival  the  year 
folio wiog,  inclufively.  In  order  therefore  to  find  out 
the  PROPFR  MASS  of  the  day,  look  for  that  day  of  the 
month  in  the  Calendar,  oppofite  to  which  may  be  fecn 
a  reference  to  the  page  wherein  it  is  contained  ;  and  if 
a  Double  fliould  fall  on\  Sunday,  then  the  Mafs  there- 
of takes  place  of  the  Mafs  of  the  Sunday,  except  it  be  a 
Sunday  of  the  FIRST  CLASS,  viz.  the  firit  Suuday  of 
ADVENT  or  LENT,  or  PASSION,  PALM,  EASTER, 
WHIT,  and  TRINITY  SUNDAYS  ;  and  the  Sundays  of 
the  SECOND  CLASS,  which  cannot  be  fuperfeded,  except 
by  Doubles  ot  the  FIRST  CLASS,  are  the  ii  iii.  and  iv. 
ut  ADVENT,  SEPTUACESIMA,  SKXAGESIMA,  and 
QuiNQUAGESiMA,as  alfo  the  ii.  iii.  and  iv.  of  LENT* 
It  mull  however  be  remarked,  that  the  Gofpels  for  Sun- 
days thus  fuptrieded  by  Doubles  are  never  omitted,  but 
are  recited  (instead' of  St.  JOHN'S  GOSPEL)  at  the  £>D 
«f  MASS  ;  aad  all'o  that  a  Commemoration  ot"  the  Sua- 
A 


II  INTRODUCTION* 

day,  by  its  proper  COLLECT,  SECRET,  and  POST* 
COMMUNION,  is  always  made  immediately  after  the  CoU 
left,  &c.  of  the  Feftival. 

But  as  it  fometimes  happens  that  a  Double  is  trans- 
ferred  to  a  future  vacant  day,  on  account  of  the  Oclavt 
of  fome  feftival  of  higher  rank  intervening,  the  diffi. 
culty^of  finding  fuch  tranferred  feftival  may  be  eafily 
removed  by  confulting  the  Laity's  Directory,  publifhcd 
annually,  as  a  guide  to  the  morning,  as  well  as  the  even* 
ing  fervice  of  the  Church. 

As  references  are  frequently  made  to  the  Common  of 
Saints,  commencing  at  p.  459,  from  the  Proper,  begin- 
ning with  p.  521,  and  continuing  in  regular  progreiiioa 
through  the  feveral  months  to  the  end  of  the  Ecclefiafti- 
cal  Year,  the  reader  will  find  the  Mafles  in  the  former 
defignatcd  by  numerical  letters,  from  No.  I.  to  XXI. 
inclufively;  it  is  therefore  to  be  obferved,  that  on  what- 
ever day  of  the  month  these  numerical  references  ap- 
pear in  the  General  Index,  it  denotes  that  the  Mafs 
thereof,  having  no  peculiar  proper  parts  afligned  it,  is 
taken  entirely  from  the  Common  Mafs  referred  to,  but 
{hcfuld  an  exception  occur  it  is  Hated  in  a  parenthefis. 

Commemorations  are  made  by  the  addition  of  a 
COLLECT,  SECKET  and  POSTCOMMUNION,  to  thofe 
that  are  proper  to  the  feaft  of  the  day,  When  therefore 
the  word  COLLECT,  with  an  &c.  annexed  thereto, 
appears  in  the  Rubrics,  it  denotes  that  its  Secret  and 
Poflcommunion  are  alfo  comprehended. 

The  Epiilles,  Leflbns,  and  Gofpels,  are  extracted  from 
the  received  approved  Catholic  Verfion  of  the  Holy 
Scriptures,  by  the  Englifh  Colleges  of  Rhemes  and 
Douay,  as  revifed  by  the  Right  Rev.  and  Ven.  Dr. 
Richard  Challoner,  of  learned  and  pious  memory. 

ABBREVIATIONS  EXPLAINED. 

ap.  Apoille,  m.  Martyr,  mm.  Martyrs,  p.  Pope,  abp, 
Archbimop,  bp.  BiiWp,  pr.  Prieft  c.  Confessor,  D. 
Doftor,  ab.  Abbot,  v.  Virgin,  w  Widow,  B.  BlcfTed, 
d.  Double,  sd.  Semidoublc  d.  /.  cl*  Double  of  the  firfl 
clafs,  d.  1L  cl.  Double  of  the  fecond  clafs,  gr.d  Greater 
Double.  The  Holy-days  of  obli^atiow  are  in  CAPI- 
TALS, and  the  days  of  particular  devotion  i&Mxs, 


(    iii    ) 

The  CALENDAR,  or  GENERAL  INDEX  to  the 
Immoveable  Feasts. 

JANUARY,  XXXI  Days. 

1  CIRCUMCISION  of  our  Lord,  d.  IL  cl  88 

2  Octave-day  of  St.  Stephen,  d.  533 

3  Octave-day  of  St.  John,  d.  as  on  his  Feast         81 

4  Octave-day  of  Holy  Innocents,  d.  as  on  ibid.    82 
c  Octave,  day  of  St.  Thomas,  d.  534 
6  EPIPHANY  of  our  Lord,  d.  I.  d.  89 

ii   Commem.  of  St.  Hygine,  by  the  Collect,  In> 

firmitatem,  &c.  462 

13  The  Octave  day  of  the  Epiphany,  d,  69$ 
II.  Sunday  after  Epiphany,  Feast  of  the  most 

holy  Name  of  Jesus,  c/,  IL  d.  94 

14  St.  Hilary,  bp.  conf.  sd.  534 

15  St.  Paul  the  first  Hermit,  d.  535 

16  St,  Marcellus,  p.  m.  sd.  *53^ 

1 7  St.  Anthony,  ab.  Mass  XV.*  p.  491.  (Gospel 

in  Mass  XIV.)  490 

1 8  St.  Peter's  Chair  at  Rome,  gr.  d.  537 

19  St.  Wolstan,  bp.  of  Worcester,  c.  d.  539 

20  SS.  Fabian  and  Sebastian,  mm.  d.  540 

21  St   Agnes,  v.  m.  first  Feast,  d.  541 

22  SS.  Vincent,  &c.  mm.  sd.  ib. 

23  St  Raymund  ofPennafort,  c.  sd.  542 

24  St.  Timothy,  bp.  m.  sd.  ib. 

25  The  Conversion  of  St.  Paul,  ap.  gr.  d.  543 

26  St   Polycarp,  bp.  m.  sd.  545 

27  St.  John  Chrysostom,  bp.  c.  sd.  546 

28  St.  Agnes,  a  second  time  ib. 

29  St.  Francis  de  Sales,  bp  c.  c/.  547 

30  St.  Martina,  v  m  sd.  Mass  XVI.  493 

31  St.  Peter  Nolascus,  c.  d.  547 

FEBRUARY,  XXVIII  or  XXIX  Days.   - 

i  St.  Ignatius,  bp.  m.  sd.  547 

a  Purification  of  B.  V.  Mary,  d.  II.  d.  548 
A   a 


MARCW  and  APRIL, 

^  St.  Blase,  bp.  m.  Mass  II.  464 

4  St.  Andrew  Corsini,  bp.  c.  d.  554 

5  St.  Agatha,  v.  m.  d.  ib. 

6  St.  Dorothy,  v.  m    Mass  XVII.  496 

7  St.  Romuald.  ab.  d.  Mass  XV.*  491 
g  St.  John  of  Matha,  c.  d  556 
9  St.  Apollonia,  v.  m.  Mass  XVL  493 

ic  St.  Scolastica,  v.  c?.  556 

14  St.  Valentine,  pr,  m,  ib. 

15  SS.  Faustin  and  Jovita,  mm.  Mass  IX,  479 

1 8  St.  Simeon,  bp,  m.  Mass  I.  461 
22  St.  Peter's  Chair  at  Antioch,  gr.  d.  537 

34  or  25  St   Matthias,  a  p.  d.  II.  cl.  557 

MARCH,    XXXI  Days. 

i   St.  D  vid,  bp,  c.  d.  Mass  X*.  482 

-z  St.  Chad,  bp.  of  Lichfield,  c,  d.  558 

4  St  Casimir,  c.  sd.  559 

7  St  Thomas  of  Aquin,  c.  D.  d.  ib. 

8  St.  Felix,  bp.  c.  rf.  Mass  XX.  499 

9  St  Frances,  w.  d.  360 
jo  The  forty  Martyrs,  sd.  ib. 
it   St  John  of  God,  c.  c?,  561 

12  St   Gregory,  p.  c.  and  D.  c?.  ib. 
17  St.  Patrick,  ap  Patron  of  Ireland,  bp.  c.  sd.   562 

19  St.  Joseph,  c.  d.  II  cL  ib. 
73  St«  Cuthbert,  bp.  of  Lindisfarne,  c.  tf.  563 
ii  St.  Benedict,  ab.  d  Mass XV.*  491 

35  ANNUNCIAT.  of  B.  V.  MARY,  d.  II.  cl  564 

APRIL,  XXX  Days, 

a  St.  Francis  of  Paula,  c  d.  565 

3  St.  Hicham,  bp.  of  Chichester,  c.  d*  566 

4  St.  Isidore,  bp.  c   d.  Mass  XLI*  485 

5  St.  Vincent  Ferrerius,  c.  d.  566 
ii  St  Leo,  p.  c.  d  567 

13  St.  Hermenegild,   m.  sd.  ib. 

14  SS.  Tiburtius,  &c.  mm.  568 
1 7  St.  Anicetc,  p.  m.  ib. 
3i  St.  Anselm,  abp.  c.  d*  Mass  XII»  485 


MAY  and  JUN7E.  v 

22  SS.  Soter  and  Caius,  bps.  mm.  569 
22  St.  George,  m,  patron  of  England,  d.  I.  cl.  570 

24  St.  Fidel  is,   m.  d.  ib. 
2$  Stt  Mark,  evangelist,  d.  II.  cl.  ib. 
26  SS.  Cletus,  &c.  bps.  mm.  sd.  572 

28  St.  Vitalis,  m.  Mass  V.  470 

29  St.  Peter,  m.  d.  573 

30  The  Octave-day  of  St.  George,  d.  570 

MAY,  XXXI  Days. 

1  SS.  Philip  and  James,  aps.  d'  1.  cL  573 

2  St.  Athanasius,  bp.  c.  d.  575 

3  Finding  of  the  H.  Cross,  d.  II.  cl.  576 

4  St.  Monica,  w.  d*  579 

5  St.  Catherine  of  Sienna,  v.  d.  580 

6  St.  John  before  the  Latin  Gate,  gr.  d.  ib. 
-•»  St.  Stanislaus,  bp.  m.  d.  581 

8  Apparition  of  St.  Michael,  see  September  29.  665 

9  St.  Gregory  Nazianzen,  bp.  D.  d.  581 
JO  St.  Antoninus,  bp.  c.  sd.                                .   ib. 

11  St.  Pius  V.  p.  c.sd.  582 

12  SS.  Nereus,  &c.  mm.  sd.                             •    ib. 
14  St,  Boniface,  m.  583 

16  St.  Ubaldns,  bp.  c.  sd.  ib. 

17  St.  Paschal  Babylon,  c.  d.  584 

18  St.  Venantius,  m.d.  ib. 

19  St.  Dunstan,  abp.  of  Canterbury,  d.  ib. 

20  St.  Bernardine,  c.  sd.  585 

21  St.  Peter  Celestine,  pope,  c.  d.  ib. 

25  St.  Aldhelm,  bp.  of  Salisbury,  c.  d.  ib. 

26  St.  Augustin,  ap.  of  Eng.  bp.  c.  d.  II.  cl.       586 

27  St.  Philip  Nerius,  c.  d.  587 

30  St.  Felix,  p.  m.  Mass  I.  461 

31  St.  Petronilla,  v.  Ma^s  XX,  499 

JUNE,   XXX  Days* 

2  Octave-day  of  St.  Augustin,  d.  587 

3  St.  Mary  Magdalen  of  Pazzi,  v.  sd.  ib. 
6  St.  Norbert,  bp.  c.  d.  rgg 
8  St.  William,  abp.  of  York,  c,  rf.  ib, 

A  3 


vi  JULY. 

9  SS.  Primus,  &c.  mm.  r88 

10  St.  Margaret,  Q.  of  Scots,  w.srf.  589 

1 1  St.  Barnabas,  ap.  gr.  d.  ib* 

12  St.  John  a  Facundo  c.  d.  r^t 

13  St.  Anthony  of  Padua,  c.  d.  ^2 

14  St.  Basil  the  Great,  bp.  c.  and  D.    d.  ib. 

15  SS,  V      s,  Modestus,  &c.  mm.  593 

18  SS  Mark  and  Marceilian,  mm.  595 

19  St.  Juliana  de  Falconeris,  v.     d*  596 

20  St.  Silverius,  p.  m.  e ^ 

22  St.  Alban,  proto-m.  of  England,  gr.  d.          ib. 

23  Vjgi!  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  ib. 

24  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist,  d.  I.  cl.  600 

25  St.  William,  Abbot  of  York  603 

26  SS=  John  and  Paul,  mm.  ib. 

27  St.  Leo,  p.  c.  sd.  604 

28  Vigil  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul  ib. 

29  SS.  PETER  and  PAUL,  aps.  d.  I.  d.  606 

30  Coramem.  of  St.  Paul,  ap.  d.  6oa 

JULY,  XXXI  Days. 

1  Octave-day  of  St.  J.  Baptist,  c?.  same  as  in       6co 

2  The  Visitation  of  the  B.  V,  Mary,  gr.  d.  610 

Within  the  Octave  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul     61 1 

6  Octave  day  of  SS  Peter  and  Paul,  d.  612 

7  Translation  of  St.  Thomas,  m.  gr.  d.  613 

8  St.  Elizabeth,  Q.  w,  sd.  614 

10  The  7  Brethren  and  SS.  Rufina,  &c.  mm.  sd.  ib. 

11  St.  Pius,  p.  m.  Mass  I.  Statuit.  461 

12  St.  John  Gualbert,  ab  d.  6jr 

13  St.  Anaclete.  Mass  II.  p.  464,  (Gospel,  Luke  463 

14  St.  Bonavemure,  bp.  c.  and  D.  d.  616 

15  Translation  of  St.  Swithin,  bp,  c.  ib. 

16  B.  V.  Mary  of  Mount  Carmel,  gr.  d.  617 

17  St.  Osmund,  bp.  of  Salisbury,  c.  d.  ib 

1 8  St.  Camillus  de  Lellis,  c.  d.    '  618 

19  St.  Vincent  a  Paulo,  c.  d.  619 

20  St.  Jerom  Emilian,  c.  d.  it,. 
*i  St,  Henry,  emp.  c.  sd.  $a3* 


AUGUST.  vii 

22  St.  Mary  Magdalen,  d.  622 

23  St.  Apollinaris,  bp.  m.  d.  623 

24  St.  Alexius,  c.  sd.  625 

25  St.  James,  ap.   d.  II.  cl.  626 

26  St.  Anne,  Mother  of  the  B.  V.  Mary,  gr.  d.   627 

27  St.  Pantaleon,  m.  Mass  IV.  468 

28  SS.  Nazarius,  Celsus,  &c.  mm.  sd.  628 

29  St.  Martha,  v.  sd.  629 

30  SS.  Abdon  and  Sennen,  mm.  630 

31  St.  Ignatius,  c.  d.  63  r 

AUGUST,  XXXI  Days. 

1  St.  Peter's  Chains,  gr.  d.  631 

2  St.  Stephen,  p.  m.  63  z 

3  The  finding  of  St.  Stephen,  Mass  as  his  Feast     78 

4  St.  Dominic,  c.  d.  632 

5  B.  V.  M.  ad  Nives,  gr.  d.  Votive  Mass,  507 

6  The  Transfiguration  of  our  Lord,  gr.  d.  533 

7  St.  Cajetan,  c.  d.  635 

8  SS.  Cyriacus,  Largus,  &c.  mm.  sd.  ib. 

9  Vigil  of  St.  Lawrence  637 

10  St.  Lawrence,  m.  d.  II.  cl.  *ib. 

11  SS.  Tiburtius  and  Susanna,  mm.  639 

12  St.  Clare,  v.  d.  Mass  XIX.  498 

13  SS.  Hippolite  and  Cassian,  mm.  639 

14  Vigil  of  the  Assumption  640 

15  ASSUMPTION  of  B,  V.  M.  d.  I  cl.  64 1 
Sund.  within  the  Oct.  St.  JOACHIM,  c.  gr.  d.  643 

16  St.  Hyacinth,  c.  d.  Mass  XIII.  488 

17  Octave- day  of  St.  Lawrence,  d.  644 

18  Commem.  of  St.  Agapete,  m.  645 
20  St.  Bernard,  ab.  Mass  XV.*  p.  491,    (except 

Lesson,  vide  St.  Greg.  Naz.  May  9.)  458 

,2 1   St.  Jane  Frances,  w.  d.  645 

•A 2  Octave-day  of  the  Assumption,  d.  646 

23  St.  Philip  Benitius,  c.  d.  $47 

24  St.  Hurlkoloniezc>t  ap.  d.  II.  cl,  i5. 

25  St.  Lewis,  king,  c.  sd.  648 

26  St.  Zephyr'm,  p,  m.  650 


via          SEPTEMBER  and  OCTOBER: 

37  St.  Joseph  Calasanctiu«,  c.  d.  6$* 

18  St.  Augustjn,  bp.  c.  D.  d.  651 

29  Decollation  of  St  John  Baptist>  d.  652 

30  St.  Rose  of  Lima,  v.  d.  653 

31  St.  Aidan,  bX  of  Lindisf.  o.  MassX.*  Statuit  482 

SEPTEMBER,  XXX  Days, 
i  St.  Raymund  Nonnatus,  c.  d.  654 

a  St.  Stephen,  king,  c.  sd.  ib. 

5  St.  Laur.  Justinian,  bp.  c.  Mass  X.*  482 

8  Nativity  of  B.  V.  Mary,  rf   II.  d.  529 
On  Sunday  within  the  Octave  is  kept  the 
Feast  of  the  HOLY  NAME  of  B.V.  M.gr.rf.6$$ 

9  Commem.  of  St.  Gorgonius,  m.  656 
jo  St.  Nic.  of  Tolentine,  c.  Mass  XIV.              489 
ii  Comm.  of  SS.  Protus  and  Hyacinth,  mm.      656 

14  The  Exaltation  of  the  Holy  Cross,  ^r.  d. 

15  Octave-day  of  the  B.  V.  Mary's  Nativ.  t/t 

16  SS.  Cornelius  and  Cyprian,  mm, 
17.  The  Stigmas  of  St.  Francis,  d. 
18   St.  Joseph  a  Cupertino,  c.  d. 
i9*SS  Januarius,  &c.  mm.  Mass  IX. 
jo  SS.  Etistachius,  &c.  mm.  d. 

21  St.  Matthew,  ap.  and  evang.  d.  JL  c/. 

22  St.  Thomas  of  Villanova,  bp.  c.  d. 

23  St.  Linus,  p.  m.  sd< 

34  B.  V.  Mary  of  Mercy,  gr.  d. 
26  SS.  Cyprian  and  Justina,  mm. 
37  SS.  Cosmas  and  Damian,  mm.  srf, 

28  St.  Wenceslaus,  duke,  m,  sd. 

29  Dedication  of'  St.  Michael,  d.  II.  cl. 

30  St  Jerom,  pr.  c.  D.  d. 

OCTOBER,  XXXI  Days. 
On  the  first  Sunday  is  kept  the 
Feast  of  the  Rosary  of  B.  V.  M,  gr.  d,  66 7 

1  St.  Remigius,  bp.  c.  MassX.*  482 

2  The  holy  Angels  Guardians,  d.  668 

3  St.  Thomas,  bp.  of  Hereford,  c.  d,  669 

4  St.  Francis,  c.  4.  ib. 


OCTOBER  and  NOVEMBER.  fo 

5  St.  PlaciJus,  &c,  mm.  *7° 

6  St.  Bruno,  c.  d.  lb« 

7  St.  Mark,  p.  c.  6.7* 

8  St.  Brigit,  w,  d. 

9  SS.  Dionysius,  Rusticus,  &c.  mm. 

10  St.  Pauhnus,  abp.  of  York,  Mass  X.*:  4*2 

11  St.  Francis  Borgia,  c.  sd.  673 

12  St.  Wilfrid,  abp.  of  York,  d.  674 

13  St.  Edward,  king  and  c.  d.  11.  cl.  |b. 

14  St.  Calistus,  p.m.  sd.  ib. 

15  St.  Teresa,  v.  d.  6:5 

17  St.  Hedwiges,  w. '  sd.  ib. 

1 8  St.  Luke,  evang.  d.  II.  cl.  676 

19  St.  Peter  of  Alcantara,  c.  d.  677 

20  Octave- day  of  St.  Edward,  d.  as  on  the  Feast  674 

21  SS.  Ursula,  &c.  vv.  mm.  gr.  d.  677 

22  St.  John  Cantius,  c,  d.  678 

25  St.  John  of  Beverley,  abp.  of  York,  c.  679 

26  St.  Evaristus,  p.  m.   Mass  I.  4*6* 

27  Vigil  of  SS.  Simon  and  Jude,  aps,  680 

28  SS.  Simon  and  Jude,  aps.   d,  II.  cl.  6*8 1 

29  Venerable  Bede,  c,  d.  683 
31  Vigil  of  All  Saints  ib. 

NOVEMBER,  XXX  Day*. 

1  ALL  SAINTS,  d.  II.  cl.  684 

2  Commem,  of  all  the  Faithful  departed,  d.     687 

3  St.  Winefrid,  v   m.  d.  683 

4  St.  Charles,   bp.  c.  d.  ib. 

8  The  Octave-day  of  All  Saints,  d.  689 

9  Dedication  of  our  Saviour's  Church,  d.  ib. 

10  St.  Andrew  Avelline,  c.  sd.  690 

11  St.  Martin,  bp.  c.  d.  ib. 

12  St.  Martin,  p.  m.  sd.  691 

13  St.  Didacus,  c.  sd.  692 

14  Translation  of  St.  Ercomvald,  bp.  c.    d.          ib. 
i  5  St.  Gertrude,  v.  and  abbess,  d.  693 

1 6  St.  Edmund,  abp.  of  Canterbury,  c.  d,  ib. 


*  DECEMBER. 

17  St.  Hugh,  bp.  of  Lincoln,c.   d.  693 

18  Dedic.  of  the  churches  of  SS.  Peter,  &c.  d.    504 

19  St.  Elizabeth,  w.  d.  694 

20  St.  Edmund  king,  m.  gr.  d.  ib. 

2 1  Presentation  of  the  B.  V.  M.  gr.  d.  69  c 

22  St.  Cecily,  v.  m.  d.  ib. 

23  St.  Clement,  p.  m.  sd.  ib. 

24  St.  John  of  the  Cross,  c.  rf.  697 

25  St.  Catharine,   v.  m.  d,  ib. 

26  St.  Felix  Valois,  c.  d.  698 
*7  St.  Gregory  Thaumaturgus,  bp.  c.  d.  ib. 

29  Vigil  of  St.  Andrew,  m.  521 

30  St.  Andrew,  ap.  d,  II.  d.  $24 

DECEMBER,  XXXI  Days. 

2  St.  Bibiana,  v.  m,  sd.  525 

3  St.  Francis  Xavier,  c.  d.  526 

4  St.  Peter  Chrysologus,  bp.  c.  d.  ib. 
St.  Berinus,  bp.  c.  d.  Mass  X,*  482 

6  St.  Nicholas,  bp.  c.  d.  537 

7  St.  Ambrose,  bp.  c.  D.  d.  528 
8'  Conception  of  B.  F.  Mary    d.  II.  d.  529 

10  St.  Melchiades,  p.  m.  Mass  I.  461 

n  St.  Damasus,  p  c.  sd  531 

13  St.  Lucy,  v.  m,  d.  ib. 

15  Octave-day  of  the  Conception,  d.  529 

16  St.  Euscbius,  bp.  m    sd.  Mass  II.  464 
ti  St,  Thomas,  ap.  d.  II.  cl.  533 
25  The  NATIVITY  of  our  Lord,  d.  I.  cl.  7* 
16  St.  Step  hen,  ist  m.  d.  II.  cl.  78 

27  S*.  Jo/*>?,   ,tp.  evang.  d.  IL  cl.  81 
3  #0/y  Innocents,  d.  II.  cL  82 

19  *S^,  Thomas  of  Canterbury,  bp,  m,  J.  II.  cl.         85 

30  Sunday  within  the  Octave  of  Nativity  86 

31  St.  Silvester,  p,  c.  d  533 


ERRATUM  in  P.  593. 
for  XV i,  rwd  XV.  SS.  Vitus,  Modestus,  mm. 


[   xi   3 
INDEX 

To  such  Masses,  Eiymns,  &c.  a-s  could  not  be  included 
in  the  Calendar  or  General  Index. 

Votive.  Masses. 
Mass  of  the  Blessed  Trinity         -  -        p.  699 

—  of  the  Holy  Ghost  -  -  7°° 
of  the  B  V.  M.  from  Advent  to  Christmas  509 

of  the  B.  V.  M.  from  Xmas  to  Candlemas  510 

— —  of  the  B.  V".  M.  from  Candlemas  to  Adv.  507 
for  the  Bridegroom  and  Bride  704 

for  the  Sick  ...  708 

—  in  the  Time  of  War  -  -  711 

Masses  for  the  Dead, 

On  the  day  of  a  person's  death  or  burial  510 

On  the  3d,  yth,  and  30th  day  after  decease  516 

Anniversary  Mass  of  the  Dead                .  517 

Common  Mass  of  the  Dead                  -  5.18 
Occasional  Collects,  Secrets,  and  Postcommu- 

nions,  for  days  that  are  not  douhles  7*13 
Te  Dcum,  to  be  sung  in  time  of  public  thanks- 
giving -  -  702 
Paraphrase  or  translation  of  Te  Deum  703 
Psalm  xix.  Sxaudiatt  for  the  King  718 
The  penitential  Psalm  Miserere  279 
Ordinary  of  the  Mass  .  xv 
Pange  lingua  -  •  275 
The  Magnificat  -  -  279 
V .  O  faithful  Cross,  with  the  Hymn  following  it  295 


Vexilla  Regis 
VicYimiE  Paschale 

Litanies  and  Prayers  following  ditto 
Adeste  fideles 
Veni  Creator 
Veni  Sancte  Spiritus 
Lauda  Sion 
dimitti^ 


297 

33° 
359 
7.* 
719 
37* 
39^ 
55* 


C    xii    3 


A  TABLE  of  Mineable  FEASTS. 


feui 
of  oui 
^ord 

Scptaa- 
'tsima 
Sunday 

yfc//- 

IJW/ttv? 
day. 

Easter. 
Sunday 

Whit- 
Sunday 

S&rc. 

f/'ftV' 

K/i/ 

istSu// 

»f  \ 

Advent 

__  .  _  1 

iSif 

Feb  1  8 

Mar   7 

Apr  22 

Juneio 

24 

^ec    2  • 

1811 
1812 

'Vb  ic 
an  26 

Feb  27 
Feb  12 

Apr  14 
Mar  2  9 

June  2 
May  1  7 

25 
27 

3et    i 

Nov  29, 

1813 

<eb  14 

Mar   3 

Apr  1.8  June  6    24 

\ov  2  8  ; 

1814 

''eb     6 

Feb  23 

Apr  10  pfay^gj  2  ^ 

Vov  2  7  , 

1815 

[an  22 

Feb    8 

Mar  2  6 

May  14!  28 

3ec    3 

1816 

.Vb    II 

Feb  28 

Apr  14 

June  2 

3S 

3ec    i 

1817 

"eb     2 

Feb  19 

Apr    6  May  2  5    26 

STov3O' 

1818 

Jan   1  8 

Feb    4 

Mar  2  2 

May  10    28 

\OV29' 

1819 

!7eb    7 

Feb  24 

Apr  ii 

May3Q 

25 

\OV28 

1*820 

fan  30 

Feb  16 

Apr    2 

May  2  1 

27 

Dec    3J 

ifoi 

Feb  1  8 

Mar   7 

Apr  22 

Juneio 

24 

Dec    2 

lS22 

Feb    3 

Feb  20 

Apr    7 

May  26 

26 

3ec    i 

tS25 

[an  26 

Feb  12 

Mar  30 

May  1  8 

27 

Nov30 

1824 

Feb  15 

Mar   3 

Apr  18 

June  6 

24 

Nov28 

1825 

1826 

Jan  30 
fan  22 

Feb  16 
Feb    8 

Apr    3  i  May  2  2 
Mar  26!  May  14 

*t 

28 

Nov27 
Dec    3 

1827 

Feb  ii 

Feb  28 

Apr  15 

June  7J   25 

Dec    2 

1828 

Feb    5 

Feb  20 

Apr    6  May  2  5    26 

Nov  30 

1829 

Feb  £5 

Mar   4 

Apr  19)  June  7 

24 

\ov  29 

i83c 
183 

Feb    7 

Jan  30 

Feb  24 
Feb  1  6 

Apr  ii  May  30 
Apr    3  [May  2  a 

3 

\OV  7.8; 

Nov  2  7 

1832 

Feb  19 

Mar    7 

Apr  22JJuneic|  24 

Dec    2 

.833 

Feb    3 

Feb  20 

Apr    7  May  2  6 

26 

Dec    i 

1834 

Jan  26 

Feb  12 

Mar  30 

May  18 

27 

Nov  30 

'83 

Feb  15 

Mar   4 

Apr  19 

June  7    24 

Nov  29 

'83 

fan   31 

Feb  17 

Apr    3 

May  22'   26 

Nov  27 

'»3 

Jan  22 

Feb    8 

Mar  26 

May  1  4    28 

Dec    3 

(    xiii    ) 


At  sprinkling  the  Holy  Water,  before  SOL  EM  if 
MASS  (^Sundays,  the  following' ANTHEMS  are 
tung. 


\  Sperges      me, 


Ant. 

Domine,  hys- 
sopo,  et  mundabor :  la- 
vabis  me,  et  super  nivem 
dealbabor. 


Ps.  Miserere  mei,  De- 
ws, secundum  magnam 
misericordiam  tuam. 

V.  Gloria  Patri,  &c. 

Ant.     Asperges      me, 


Anth.  HP  H  O  U     wilt 
JL    sprinkle  me, 

0  Lord !     with    hyssop, 
and  I  shall  be  cleansed  : 
thou  wilt  wash  me,  and 

1  shall   be  made  whiten 
than  snow. 

Ps.  Have  mercy  on  me, 
O  God,  according  to  thy 
great  mercy. 

V.  Glory  be  to  the 
Father,  &c. 

Anth.  Thou  wilt  sprin- 
kle me,  &c. 


The  Priest ,   being  returned  to  the  Foot  of  the  Alt'ar9 

says, 

V.      Ostende      nobis,        V.  Shew  us,  O  Lord, 
Domine,    misericordiam     thy  mercy, 
tuam. 


R.  Et    salutare  tuum 
da  nobis. 


R.  And  grant  us  thy 
salvation. 


V.     Domine,    exaudi        V.  O  Lord,  hear  my 
orationem  meam.  prayer. 

R.  Et  clamor  meus  ad 
te  veniat. 

V.     Dominus 


vobis- 


R.    And   let   my   cry 
come  unto  thee. 

V.  May  the  Lord  be 


-turn. 


with  you. 


R.  Et  cum  spiritu  tuo.        R.  And  with  thy  spi- 
rit. 

The  Prayer,  Exaudi,  as  in  the  next 
B 


(    xiv    ) 

From  EASTER   to  WHIT  SUNDAY,  inclusively, 
instead  of  the  foregoing  ANT,  Asperges,   &c.  the 
following  is  sung,  and  Alleluias  ar&  added  to  the 
V.  Ostende  nobis,  and  Us  R,  Etsalutare,  &c. 
ANTHEM. 

VIDI  aquam  egredi-  T  Saw  'water  flawing 
entem  de  templo  a  JL  from  the  right  side 
latere  dextro,  Alleluia:  of  the  temple,  Alleluia: 
et  o nines  ad  quos  perve-  and  all  to  whom  that 
nit  aqua  ista,  salvi  facti  water  came,  were  saved, 
sunt  etdicent,  Allel.  and  they  shall  say,"  Allel. 

Ps.  Confitemini  Do-  Ps.  Praise  the  Lord, 
mino,  quoniam  bonus  :  because  he  is  good:  be- 
quoniam  in  ssecuium  cause  his  mercy  endureth 
misericordia  ejus.  Gloria,  forever.  Glory,  &c. 

The   I'rtiycr,  Exaudi. 

HEAR  us,  OholyLcrH,  Almighty  Father,  eter- 
nal God  !  and  vouchsafe  to  send  thy  holy  angel 
from  heaven,  to   guard,  cherish,  protect,  visit   and 
defend  all  that  are  assembled  in  this  place  :  through 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.     Amen. 

A  Preparatory  Prayer  before  Mass. 

PROSTRATE  in  spirit  at  the  foot  of  thy  holy 
altar,  I  adore  thee,  O  Almighty  God  !  and  firm. 
ly  believe  that  the  Mass,  at  which  f  am  going  to  as- 
sist, is  the  sacrifice  of  the  body  and  blood  of  thy  Son, 
Christ  Jesus.  O !  grant  that  I  may  assist  thereat  with 
the  attention,  respect,  and  awe  due  to  such  august 
mysteries:  and  that  by  the  merits  of  the  Victim 
there  offered  for  me,  T  myself  may  become  an 
agreeable  sacrifice  to  thee,  who  livest  and  reignest 
with  the  same  Son  and  Holy  Ghost,  cue  God, . 
World  without  end.  Amen. 


(      XV      ) 

THE  ORDINARY 

Of  the  MAS*. 


The  I'riczt  ui  ike  Foot  of  the  ALar,  beginning,  saith, 

TN  Noinme  Patris,  »J«  et     TN  the  Name    of    the 

•*-  Filii,  et  Spintus  Sane-     •*•  Father,     and   of    the 

ti.     Amen.  Son,    and   of  the  Holy 

Ghost-     Amen. 

Anth.     \  will  go  unto 
the  altar  of  God. 


R.  To  God,  who  re- 
joiceth  my  youth. 


Ant.  Introiboadaltare 
Dei. 

R.  Ad  Deum,  qui  Ise- 
tificat  juventutem  meam. 

Psalm  xl  i. 

JUDICA  me,  Deus,  et      JUDGE  me, 
discerne  causam   me- 
am  de  gente  non  sancta  : 
ab  homineiniquo  et  do- 
loso  erue  me. 


R.  Qtiia  tu  es,  Deus, 
fortitudo  mea  quare  me 
repulisti  ?  et  quare tristis 
incedo  dum  affligit  me 
inimicus  ? 

P  Emitte  lucem  tuam 
et  veritatem  tuam  :  ipsa 
me  deduxerunt,  et  ad- 
dux'.-ruat  in  Montem 
sanctum  tiuim,  et  in  Ta- 
be:nacula  tua. 

R.  Et  introibo  ad  al- 
tare  Dei  ad  Ueum  qui 
laetificat  juventutem  me- 
am. 


O  God, 

J  and  distinguish  my 
cause  from  the  nation 
that  is  not  holy  :  from  the 
unjist  and  deceitful  man 
deliver  me. 

R.  Since  thou,  O  God, 
art  my  strength,  why 
han  thou  rejected  me? 
and  why  do  I  go  sorrow- 
fu  whilst  the  enemy  af« 
flicteth  me  ? 

P.  Send  forth  thy 
light  and  thy  truth  :  they 
have  conducted  me  and 
brought  me  unto  the  ho- 
ly Mount,  and  into  thy 
Tabernacle. 

R.  And  I  will  go  unto 
the  altar  of  God :  to 
God  who  rejoiceth  my 
youth. 


Stvi 


THE  ORDINARY 


P.  Confitebortibi  inci- 
thara,  Deus,  Deus  me. 
us:  quare  tristis  es,  ani- 
ma  mea  ?  et  quate  con- 
turbas  me  ? 

R.  Sperain  Deo,  quo- 
niam  adhuc  confitebor 
illi  :  salntare  vultus  mei, 
et  Deus  me  us. 
m  P.  Gloria  Patri,  etFi. 
lio,  et  Spiritui  Sancto. 

R.  Sicut  erat  in  prin- 
cipio,  et  nunc,  et  sem- 
per, et  in  saecula  seecu- 
Jorurn.  Amen. 

P.  Introibo  ad  altare 
Dei. 

R.  Ad  Deum  quilseti- 
fkat  juventutern  meam. 

P.  Adjutoriurn  nos- 
trum in  nomine  Do- 
mini. 

R.  Qui  fecit  coelum  et 
terram. 

P.  Confiteor  Deo  om- 
nipotent], &c. 

R.  Misereatur  tui  om- 
nipotens  Deus,  et  dimis- 
sis  peccatis  tiiis,  perdu- 
cat  te  ad  vitam  aeternam. 

P.  Amen. 

R.  Confiteor  Deoom- 
nipotenti  beatse  Ma  rise 
semper  Virgini,  beato 
Micnaeli  Archangelo, 
beato  Joanni  Baptists;, 
sanctis  Apostolis  Petro 


P.  T  will  praise  thee 
on  the  harp,  O  God,  my 
God  ;  why  art  thou  sor- 
rowful, O  my  soul  ?  and 
why  dost  thou  disturb 
me? 

R.  Hope  in  God,  for 
him  will  I  still  praise  ; 
he  is  my  God,  and  the 
Saviour  I  look  for. 

P.  Glory  be  to  the  Fa- 
ther, and  to,  &c. 

R.  As  it  was  in  the 
beginning,  is  now,  and 
ever  shall  be,  world  with- 
out  end.  Amen. 

P.  1  will  go  unto  the 
altar  ofGod. 

R.  To  God  who  re- 
joiceth  my  youth. 

P.  May  onr  help  be 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord. 

R.  Who  made  heaven 
and  earth. 

P.  I  confess  to  Al- 
mighty God,  &c. 

R.  May  Almighty  God 
be  merciful  to  thee,  and, 
forgiving  thee  thy  sins, 
bring  thee  to  everlasting 
.life.  P.  Amen. 

R.  I  confess  to  Al- 
mighty God,  to  bles- 
sed Mary,  ever  a  Vir- 
gin, to  blessed  Michael 
the  Archangel,  tabU-bsed 
John  Baptist,  the  holy  to 


OF  THE 

ct  Paulo,  omnibus  sanc- 
tis,  et  tibi  Pater,  quia 
peccavi  nimis  cogita- 
tione,  verbo  et  opere, 
mea  culpa,  mea  en  I  pa, 
mea  maxima  culpa. 
Ideo  precor  beatam  Ma- 
riam  semper  Virginem, 
beatumMichae'emArch- 
angelum,  bealum  Joan- 
nem  Buptistam,  sanctos 
Apostolos  Petrum  et 
Paxilum,  oir.nts  sanctos, 
et  te,  Pater,  oiare  pro 
me  ad  Dominum  Deum 
nostril  in. 

P.  Misereatur  vestri 
omnipotens  Deus,  et  di- 
missis  peccatis  vestris, 
perdu  cat  vos  ad  vitam 
seternam.  R.  Amen. 

R.  Indulgeutiam,  abso- 
lutionem,  et  remissio- 
nem  peccatorum  nostro- 
rum,  tribuit  nobis  omni- 
potens  et  misencors  Do- 
miniis.  R.  Amen. 

P.  Deus,  tu  couversus 
vivificabis  nos. 


MASS. 


XVII 


R.  Et  plebs  tua 
bitur  in  te. 

P.  Ostende  nobis, 
Domine,  misericordiam 
tuam. 

R.  Et  sakitare  tuura 
da  nobis. 


Apostles  Peter  and  Paul, 
to  all  the  saints,  and  to 
you,  Father,  that  I  have 
sinned  exceedingly  in 
thought,  word,  and 
deed,  thro'  my  fault, 
thro'  my  fault,  thro'  my 
most  grievous  fault. 
Therefore  I  beseech 
blessed  Mary,  ever  a  vir- 
gin, blessed  Michael  the 
Archangel,  blessed  John 
Baptist,  the  holy  Apos- 
tles Peter  and  Paul,  and 
all  the  saints,  and  you, 
O  Father,  to  pray  to  the 
Lord  our  God  forme. 

P.  May  Almighty  God 
be  merciful  kmo,  you, 
and,  forgiving  you  your 
sins,  bring  you  .to  life 
everlasting.  R.  Amen. 

R.  May  the  Almighty 
and  most  merciful  Lord 
grant  us  pardon,  absolu- 
tion, and  remission  of 
our  sins.  R.  Amen. 

P.  OGod,  thou  being 
turned  towards  us,  wilt 
enliven  us. 

R.  And  thy  people 
will  rejoice  in  thee. 

P.  Shew  us,  O  Lord, 
thy  mercy. 


R.   And  grant   us  thy 
salvation. 


8 1 


XVI 11 


THE  ORDINARY 


P.  Domine,  exaudi 
orationem  meam. 

R.  Et  clamor  meus  ad 
te  veniat. 

P.  Dominus  fobis- 
cum. 

R,  Et  cum  spiritu  tuo. 


my 
cry 


P,  O  Lord,  hear 
prayer. 

R    And     let  my 
come  cntothee. 

P.  The  Lord  be  with 
you. 

R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 


The  Priest,  going  up  to  the  Altar,  says, 

Anfer  a  nobis  qusesu-  Take  away  from  us 
our  iniquities,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Lord,  that 
we  mav  be  worthy  to  en- 
ter with  pure  minds  in- 
to the  Holy  of  Holies  : 
thro'  Christ  our  Lord. 
Amen. 


mus,  Domine,  iniqimates 
no$trast  ut  ad  Sancta 
Sanctorum  puris  merea- 
nuir  meiUibus  introire : 
per  Christum  Dominum 
nostrum.  Amen. 


When  come  up  to  the  Alar,  bowing  down,  he  says, 


Oramus  te,  Domine, 
per  rnerita  sanctorum 
tuortim  quorum  reli- 
quiae hie  siiiit,  et  omni- 
um sam  bMHim,  ut  iod*;!- 
gere  digueris  oinma  pec- 
cata  mea.  Amen. 


We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  by  the  merits  of 
thy  saints,  whose  relics 
are  here,  and  of  all  the 
saints,  that  thou  wouldst 
vouchsafe  to  forgive  me 
all  my  sins.  Amen. 


Here,  at  solemn  Masses,  the  Priest,  (after  having 
blessed  the  ince  ise  and  fumed  the  altar  by  the  sign  of 
the  Cross,  witk  the  following  zcords,  Mayest  thou  be 
blessed  by  him,  in  whose  honour  thou  shalt  be 
burnt),  turns  to  the  book,  and  reads  ^elNTROiT, 
which  being  every  day  different,  must  be  sought  fur 
in  if  s  proper  place.  After  which,  Kyrie  eleison  and 
Christe  eleison  arc  alternately  sung  in  the  ekoir. 


OF    THE    MASS.  Xlx 

P.  Kyrie  eleison,  R.  Kyrie  eleison,  P.  Kyrie 
eleison  Lord  have  mercy  upon  us. 

R.  Christe  eleison.  P. 'Christe  eleison.  R.  Christe 
eleison.  Christ  have  mercy  upon  us. 

P  Kyrie  el-ison.  R.  Kyrie  eleison.  P.  Kyrie 
eleison.  Lord  have  mercy  upon  us. 

GLORIA  IN  EXCELSIS. 


GLORIA  in  excelsis 
Deo,  et  in  terra 
pax  hominibus  bonae  vo- 
luntaris.  Laudamus  te; 
beiiedicimus  te ;  adora- 
mus  te  ;  glorificamus  te. 
Gratias  animus  tibi  prop- 
ter  magnam  gloriam 
tuam,  Domine  Deus, 
Rex  cnelestis,  Deus  Pa- 
ter omnipotens,  Domine 
Fill  unigeniteJesuCnriste: 
Domine  Deus,  Agnus 
Dei,  Filius  Patris,  qui 
tollispeccatamundi,  mi- 
serere  nobis.  Qui  tollis 
peccata  mundi,  suscipe 
deprecation  em  nostrum. 
Qui  sedes  ad  dexteram 
Patris,  miserere  nobis. 
Quoniam  tu  solus  sanc- 
tus.  Tu  solus  Domi- 
nns.  Tn  solus  altissimus, 
Jesu  Christe,  cum  Sanc- 
to  Spiritu,  in  gloria  Dt-i 
Patris.  Amen," 


(^  LORY  be  to  God 
T  on  high,  and  on 
earth,  peace  to  men  of 
good  will.  We  praise 
thee;  we  bless  thee;  we 
adore  thee;  we  glorify 
thee.  We  give  thee 
thanks  for  thy  great 
glory,  O  Lord  God, 
heavenly  King,  God  the 
Father  Almighty,  Q 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the 
only  begotten  Son.  O 
Lord  God,  Lamb  of 
God,  Son  of  the  Father, 
who  takest  away  the  sins 
of  the  world,  have  mercy 
on  us.  \Vho  takest  away 
the  sins  of  the  world, 
receive  our  prayers.  Who 
sittest  at  the  right  hand  of 
the  Father,  have  mercy 
on  us.  For  thou  only 
art  holy.  Thou  only  art 
the  Lord.  Thou  only, 
O  Jesus  Christ,  together 
with  the  Holy  Ghost, 
art  mon  hiiiii  in  th«- glory 
of  God  the  IV 
Aineii. 


XX  THE   ORDINARY 

Turning  tozcards  the  people,  the  Priest  salutes  them, 
saying, 

P.  Dommusvobiscum.        P.  The  Lord  be  with 

you. 
R.  Etcumspiritu  tuo.          R.    And     with      thy 

spirit. 

{j^f  After  the  COLLECT  (which  may  be  found  in  its 

proper  place)  the  following  is  the  second  Collect 

from  Candlemas  day  to  Passion  Sunday,  and  from 

the  111.  Sunday  after  Pentecost  till  Advent,   except 

on  Doubles  or  within  Octaves  j)    the  third  is  at  l/ic 

choice   of  the  Priest,  and  may  be  found  amongst 

the  Occasional  Prayers  towards  the  end  of  the.  book. 

II.  'COLLECT.  '    A  cuncti*.      Preserve    us,     O 

Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  from  all  dange.s  of  body 

and  soul :  and  by  the  intercession  of  glorious  and 

blessed  Mary,  the  ever  Virgin  Mother  of  God,  of 

the  blessed  apostles  Peter  and  Paul,  of  blessed  N. 

and  of  all  the  Saints,  grant  us  in  thy  mercy  health 

and  peace  ;    that  all   adversities  and  errors  being 

removed,  thy  Church  may  serve  thee  with  a  pure 

#nd  undisturbed  devotion. 

from  Low-Sunday,  incluswety,  till  the  Ascension, 
instead  of  the  foregoing  is  said  the  COLLECT 
Concede  nos.  as  in  the  Votive  Mass  SALVE  for 
the  B.  V.  M. 

After  the  Collect  or  Collects,  the  EPISTLE   is  read. 
At  the  i\d  whereof  the   Assistants  answer,    Deo 
gratias;  then  follows  trie  GRADUAL  w  the  TRACT, 
(it!  of  which  may  be  seen  in  their  proper  places. 
The  Prayer,  Munda  cor  meum,    before  the  Gospel. 

CLEANSE  my   heart  and  my  lij-s,   O  Almighty 
God,  who  didst  cleanse  the  lips  of  the  pro- 
phet Isaiah  with  a    burning  coal :  and  vouchsafe, 
"ihjough  thy  gracious  rnercy?  so  to  purify  me,  tha£ 


OF    THE    MASS.  XXl 

I  may  worthily  attend  to  thy  holy  Gospel.     Thro* 
Christ  our  Lord.     Amen. 

May  the  Lord  be  in  my  heart,  and  on  my  lips, 
that  I  may  worthily  and  in  a  becoming  manner 
attend  to  his  holy  Gospel.  Amen. 

P.  Dominus  vobis- 
cam.  R.  Et  cam  spiritu 
tuo. 

P.  Sequentia  (vel  ini 


tium;    sancti     Evang<rlii 
secundum,  &c. 


P.  The  Lord  be  with 
you.  11.  And  with  thy 
spirit. 

P.  The  continuation 
(or  the  beginning)  of  the 
holy  Gospel  according 
to,  &c. 

R.  Glory  be  to  thee, 
O  Lord. 


R.    Gloria   tibi,   Do- 
mine. 

The  Gospel  may  be  seen  in  its  proper  place. 
At  the  end  of  the  Gospel,   the  Assistants  answer, 

R.  Laus  tibi,  Christe.         R.  Praise  be  to  thee, 

O  Christ. 
Then  they  say  zcith  the.  Priest9   in  a  low  voice,, 

May  our  sins  be  blotted  out  by  the  words  ot  the 
Gospel. 

The  N1CENE  CREED. 


CREDO      in     imum 
DcumPatrem  omni 
potentem,  factorem  coeli 
et  terrae,  visibi'ium  om- 
nium et  invisibilium. 

Et  in  unum  Domi- 
nnm  Jesum  Christum, 
JKihum  Dei  unigenitum, 
et  ex  P;,tre  natum  ante 
omnia  sxeula.  Deum 
de  De->  ;  Lumen  de  Lu- 
rmr.e;  Deum  verum  de 
Deo  vero  j  gtnitum  lion 


I   Believe  in  one  God, 
the  Father  Almighty, 
Maker    of   heaven     and 
earth,    and  of  all  things 
visihie  and  invisible. 

And  in  one  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  the  only  begot- 
ten Son  ot  God,  and 
born  of  the  Father  he- 
tore  ail  ages.  God  of 
God  ;  Light  of  Light  ; 
true  God  of  true  God; 
begotten  not  made  j  ton- 


THE    ORDINARY 


factum;  consubstantia- 
lem  Patri,  per  quern 
omnia  tacta  snnt.  Qui 
propter  nos  homines,  et 
propier  noslram  salutem 
descend  it  de  coelis,  Et 
incarnatus  est  de  Spiri- 
tu  Sancio,  ex -Maria  V7ir- 
gine :  ET  HOMO 
FACFUS  EST*.  Cru- 
cifixus  etiam  pro  nobis 
sub  Poiitio  P'lato,  pas- 
sus  et  sepultus  est  Et 
resurrexit  te.tia  die  se- 
cuncium  Scripturas.  Et 
ascendit  in  coelum,  sedet 
cul  dexteram  Patris.  Et 
iteram  vent  urns  est  cum 
glfcna  judicare  vivos  et 
mortuos;  cujus  regni  non 
erit  finis. 


Et  in  Spjrilnm  Sanc- 
tum, Dorainum  et  vivi- 
ficantcm,  qui  ex  Patre 
Filioqne  procedit  :  qui 
cum  Patre  et  Filiosimul 
adoratur,  et  cc.igiorifica- 
tnr;  qui  locutiis  est  per 
prophetas.  Et  unam 
sanctam  Cathoiicam  et 
Apostoiicam  Ecclesiam. 
Confiteor  unum  Baptis- 


substantial  to  the  Fa- 
ther,  bv  whom  all  things 
were  made.  Who  for 
us  men,  and  for  our -sal- 
vation, came  down  from 
heaven  and  became  in- 
carnate by  the  holy 
Ghost  of  the  Virgin 
Mary:  AND  WAS 
MADE  MAN*.  He  was 
crucified  also  for  us,  suf- 
fered under  Pontii'S  Pi. 
late,  and  was  buried. 
And  the  third  dav  he  rose 
again  according  to  the 
Scriptures.  And  ascend. 
ed  into  heaven,  sitteth 
at  the  right  hand  ot  the 
Father  and  he  is  to 
come  again  with  glory 
to  judge  both  the  living 
and  the  dead,  of  whose 
kingdom  there  shall  be 
no  end. 

And  in  the  Holy 
Ghost,  the  Lord  and 
giver  of  life,  who  pro- 
ceedt'th  from  the  Father 
and  the  Son  :  who,  to- 
gether with  the  Father 
and  the  Son  is  adored 
and  glorified  ;  who 
spoke  by  the  prophets. 
And  one  holy  Catholic 
and  apostolic  Church. 


*  At  these  words  the  assistants  kneel  down  to  adore  Gpd 
for  the  ineffable  mystery  of  the  incarnation.* 


OF    THE    MASS.  XXlil 

I  confess  one  baptism  for 
the  remission  of  sins. 
And  I  txpect  the  resur- 
rection of  the  dead,  and 
the  life  of  the  world  to 
come.  Amen. 

P.  The  Lord  be  witli 
you.  R.  And  with  thy 
spirit. 

Let  us  pray. 

Here  follows  tJie  OFFERTORY,  which  may  be 
seen  in  its  proper  place. 

OBLATION    of   the    HOST. 

Suscipe,    Sancte    Pa-  Accept,    O   holy  Fa* 

ter,    omnipotens  seterne  ther,   almighty  and  eter- 

Deus,    hanc   immacula-  nal  God,   this  unspotted 

tarn  Hostiam,  quam  ego  Host,    which   I    thy  un- 
indignus     famulus    tuus 
offero  tibi  Deo  meo  vi- 


ma  in  remissionem  pec- 
catorum.  Et  expecto  re- 
surrectionem  rnnrtuo* 
rum,  et  vitam  venturi 

SiECUli. 

Amen. 

P.  Dominusvobiscum. 
R.      Et    cum    spiritu 
tuo. 

Or  emus. 


vo  et  vero,  pro  innume- 
rabilibus  peccatis,  offen- 
sionibus  et  negligcntiis 
meis,  et  pro  omnibus 
circumstantibus  ;  sed  et 
pro  omnibus  fidelibus 
Christianis,  vivis  atque 
defunctis  ;  ut  mini  et 
iS  I  is  proficiat  ad  salutem 
in  vitam  aeternam. 
Amen. 

1  the  Priest  pnts  the  Wine  and  Water  into  the 

Chalice,  he  says, 

Dens  qni  humansesub-  O  God,  who  in  creat- 
stanti?e  dignitatem  mira-  ing  human  nature,  hast 
bi liter  condidLti,  et  mi.  wonderfully  dignified  it, 
rabiiius  reformasti,  da  and  s]ill  more  wonder- 


worthy  servant  offer  un- 
to thee,  my  living  and 
true  God,  for  my  innu. 
merable  sins,  offences, 
and  negligences,  ;md 
for  all  here  present;  as 
also  for  all  faithful 
Christians,  both  living 
and  dead;  that  it  may 
avail  both  me  and  them 
unto  life  everlasting. 
Amen. 


XXIV 


THE    ORDINARY 


nobis  per  hujus  Aquae 
et  Vini  Mysterium,  ejus 
divinitatis  esse  consortes, 
qtii  humanitatis  nostrre 
fieri  dignatus  est  parti- 
ceps,  Jesus  Christus  FU 
lius  tuus  Dominus  nos- 
ter:  qui  tecnm  vivit  et 
regnat  in  unitate  Spiritus 
sancti  Deus ;  per  omnia, 
ssecula  saeculorum. 
Amen. 

OBLATION  of 

Offer! mus  tibi,  Do- 
mine,  Calicem  salutaris, 
tuam  deprecantes  cle. 
mentiam,  ut  in  conspectu 
di/moe  Majestatis  tuae, 
pro  nostra  et  totius  muu- 
di  '  salute  cum  odore 
suavitatis  ascendat. 
Amen. 


fully  reformed  it,  grant 
that  by  the  mystery  of 
this  Water  and  Wine,  we 
may  be  made  partakers 
of  his  divine  nature,  who 
vouchsafed  to  become 
partaker  of  our  human 
nature,  namely,  Jesus 
Christ  our  Lord  thy  Son, 
who  with  thee,  in  the 
unity  of,  &c. 
Amen. 

the  CHALICE. 

We  offer  unto  thee,  O 
Lord,  the  Chalice  of  Sal- 
vation, beseeching  thy 
clemency,  that  it  may 
ascend  before  thy  divine 
Majesty,  as  a  sweet  o- 
dour,  for  our  salvation, 
and  for  that  of  the  whole 
world.  Amen. 


When  the  Priest  bows  before  the  Altar,  he  says, 


In  spiritu  humi'itatis, 
et  in  animo  contrho  sus- 
cipiamur  a  te,  Domine, 
etsic  fiat  sacrificium  nos- 
trnm  in  con?pectu  tuo 
hodie,  ut  pl-iceat  tibi, 
Domine  Deus. 


Accept  us,  O  Lord,  in 
the  spirit  of  'humility, 
and  contrition  of  heart, 
and  grant,  that  the  sacri- 
fice which  we  offer  this 
day  in  thy  sight,  may  be 
pleasing  to  thee,  O  Lord 
God. 


When  he  blesses  the  Bread  and  Wine,  he  sai/s, 
Veni,      sanctificator,  Come,    O    almighty 

omnipotens  eeterne  Deus,     and    eternal    God, 

et  beijedic  hoc    sacrifi- 


the 
sanctifier,  and  bless  -ikis 


OF    THE    M\SS.  XXV 

cinm  tuo  sancto  nomini     sacr;fice,  prepared  for  the 
prseparatum.  glory  of  thy  holy  name. 

U(it\  in  solemn  classes,  he  blesses  Hie  Incense,  saying, 


May  the  Lord,  by  the 
intercession  of  the  bless- 
ed Michael  the  arch- 


Per       intercessionem 
beati   Michael  is   archaii- 
geli  stantis  a  dextris  Al- 
taris  Incensi,  et  omnium     angel    standing    at    the 
electorum    suorum,    in-     right  hand  of  the  Altar 
censum     istud    dig-ietur 
Dorninus  benedicer^,    et 
in  odorem  suavilatis  ac- 


of  Incense,  and  of  all  his 
elect,  vouchsafe  to  bless 
this  incense,  and  receive 
it  as  an  odour  of  sweet- 
ness. Thro."  Amen. 
At  incensing  the  Bread  and  Wine,  he  says, 


cipere.       Per    Christum 
Dominum  nostrum. — 


Incensum    istud  a     te 
benedictum,  ascendat  ad 
te  Domine,   et  descendat 
super 
tua. 


May      this     f  license 
which    thou    hast    blest, 
O  Lord,  ascend  to  tjiee, 
nos    misericordia    and   may  thy  mercy  de- 
scend upon  us. 

At  incensing  the  Altar,  he  says,  Ps.  cxi. 


Diripatur,     Domine, 
©ratio   mea  sicut  incen- 


Let     my    prayer,     .O 
Lord,    ascend,    like  in- 


sum,  in  consnectu   tuo:     cense  in  thy  sight:  and 


elevatio  manuum  mea- 
rum  sacrificium  vesper- 
tinum.  Pone,  Domine, 
cnstodiam  ori  meo,  et 
ostium  circumstantise  la- 
biis  meis,  ut  non  decli- 
net  ror  meam  in  verba 
malitiae,  ad  excusandas 
trxcusationes  in  peccatis. 


the  lifting  up  of  my 
hands  be  as  an  evening 
sacrifice.  Place,  O  Lord, 
a  guard  on  my  momh, 
and  a  gate  of  prudence 
before  my  lips,  that  my 
heart  may  not  wander 
after  words  of  malice,  to 


seek  excuses  in  sin. 
On  giving  the  Ccmcr  to  the  Deacon,  he  Kays, 
May  the  Lord  enkindle  within  us  the  fire  of  his 
love,  and  the  flame  of  everlasting  chanty. 
Amen, 

C 


THE    ORDINARY 

Washing  his  Hands  he  sai/s,  Ps  xxv.  6. 

I  will  wash  my  hands 
among the  innocent:  and 
VP ill  encompass  thy  altar, 
O  Lord. 

That  I  may  hear  the 
voice  of  praise  :  and  pub- 
lish all  thy  marvellous 
works. 

Lord,  T  have  loved  the 
beauty  of  thy  house,  and 
the  place  of  the  habita- 
tion of  thy  glory. 

Destroy  not  my  soul 
with  the  impious;  and 
my  life  with  men  of 
bloody  minds* 

In  whose  hands  are  ini- 
quities: their  right-hand 
is  filled  with  bribes. 


xxvi 


Lavabo  inter  inno- 
centes  man  us  meas  :  et 
circumdabo  altare  Uiuin, 
Domine. 

Ut  audiam  vocem 
laudis :  et  enarrem  uni- 
versa  mirabilia  tua. 

Domine,  dilexi  deco- 
rem  domustus5?et  locum 
habitationis  glorise  tuse. 


Ne  perdcis  cum  impiis 
animam  meam  ;  et  cum 
viris  sanguiiium  viiam 
meam. 

In  quorum  manibus 
iniquitates  sunt:  dextera 
eonim  rep!  eta  est  mu- 
nerib'us. 

Ego  an  tern  in  inno- 
centia  mea  ingressus 
sum:  redime  me,  et  mi- 
serere mei. 

Pes  meus  stefit  in  di- 
recto :  in  ecclesiis  bene- 
dicam  te  Domine. 


Gloria  Patri, 
&c. 


Filio, 


But  I  have  walked  in 
my  innocence :  redeem 
me,  and  have  mercy  on 
me. 

My  feet  have  stood  in 
the  right  path  :  in  the  as- 
sembly I  will  bless  thee, 
O  Lord. 

Glory  be  to  the  Father, 
&c. 


Bowing  before  the  middle  of  the  Altar,  he  says^ 


Snscipe,  sancta  Trini 
tas,  hanc  oblationem 
quam  tibi  ofFerimus  ob 
memoriamPassionis,  Re- 
surrectionis,  et  Ascensio- 
nis  Jesu  Ciiristi  Domini 
nostri;  et  in  honorem 


Receive,  O  holy  Tri- 
nity, this  oblation  which 
we  make  to  thee,  in  me- 
mory of  the  Passion,  Re- 
surrection, and  Ascension 
of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
and  in  honour  of  the 


OF    THE    MASS. 


blessed  Mary  ever  a  vir- 
gin, the  blessed  John 
Baptist,  tluj  holy  Apostles 
Peter  and  Paul,  and  of 
all  the  Saints  ;  that  it 
may  be  available  to  their 
honour  and  our  sal- 
vation :  and  may  they 
vouchsafe  to  intercede 
for  us  in  heaven,  whose 
memory  we  celebrate  on 
earth.  Thro'  the  same 
Christ  our  Lord  Amen. 


beatae     Marise     semper 

Virginis,  et  beau  Joaunis 

Baptistae,     et  sanctorum 

Apostolorum     Petri     et 

Pauli,  et  istorum,  et  om- 
nium Sanctorum  ;  ut;n's 

proficiat    ad     ho-io 

nobis  autem  ad  salutem  : 

et  illi  pro  nobis  interce- 

dere  dignentur  in   coelis, 

quorum   memonam  agi- 

111  us   in  terris.     Per  eun- 

dem  Christum  Doininum 

nostrum.     Amen. 

Then  turning  himself  towards  the  People,  he  says,- 
Oraie  Fratres,    ut  me-         Brethren,  pray  that  my 

urn  ac  vestrum  sacrifici-     sacrifice  and  yours  may 

urn  acceptable  fiat  apud 

Deum   Patrem  omnipo- 

tentem. 
R.  Suftcipiat  Do'minus 

sacrifici  urn   de    manibus 

tuis,  ad  laudem  et  glori- 

am  iiominis  sui,   ad  utili- 

tatem    quoque   nostrum, 

toti usque    tcclesiae     suae 

sanctre. 

Af-er  reading  the  SECRET,  which  may  be  seen  in 
its  proper  place,  the  second  Secret  from  Candle- 
mas-day till  Passion  Sunday,  and  from  the  III. 
Sunday  after  Pentecost  until  Advent,  (except  on 
Doubles,  and  within  Octaves)  is  the  follow  ing. 
11.  SECRET.  Graciously  hear  us,  O  God  our 

Saviour:    that  by  virtue   of  this   sacrament,   thoii 

ina^est   detend  us  from  all   enemies,   of  both  soul 

and  body  :  grant  us  grace  in  this  life,  and  glory  in 

the  next. 

JPnwi  Low   Sunday,  exclusively^  till  the  Ascension,* 
C  2 


be  acceptable  to  God  the 
Father  Almighty.      • 

R.  May  the  Lord  re- 
ceive the  sacrifice  from 
thy  hands,  to  the  praise 
and  glory  of  his  name, 
and  to  our  benefit,  and  to 
that  of  his  hol>  Church. 


XXVlll  PREFACES. 

instead  of  the  foregoing  is  said  the  SECRET, 
May,  O  Lord,  &c.  as  in  the  Votive  Mas*  SALVE 
for  the  B.  V.  M. 

P.  Per  omnia  saecula  P.  World  without  end. 
sseculorum.  R.  Amen.  R.  Amen. 

The  Preface. 

P,  Dominusvobiscum.  P.  The  Lord  he  with 
R.  Et  cum  spiritu  tuo.  you.  R.  And  with  thy 
P.  Sursnm  corda.  R.  spirit.  P.  Lift  up  your 
Habemus  ad  Dominum.  hearts.  R.  We  have 
P.  Gratias  agamus  Do  lifted  them  up  to  the 
mi  no  Deo  nostro.  R.  Lord.  P.  Let  us  give 
Dignum  et  justum  est.  thanks  to  our  Lord  God. 

R.  It  is  meet  and  just. 
The  PREFACE   on    Festivals    and  other  Days   that 

have  none  proper,  and  in  Massest/(>r  the  Dead. 

N.  B.    This  mark  *  refers  to  the  subsequent  part  of 

the  proper  Prefaces. 


VEre  dign  u  m  et  j  ust  u  m 
est,  sequum  et  sal  j- 
tare;  nos  tibi  semper,  et 
ubique  gratia*  ai;  ere,  Do- 
mine  sancte,  Pater  om- 
nipotens,  seterne  Deus. 
*  Per  Christum  Domi- 
num nostrum  :  per  quern 
majestatem  ttiam  laudant 
angeli.  adorant  domina- 
tiones,  tremunt  potesta- 
tes,  coeli  coeloruriqne  vir- 
tutes,  ac  beaia  seraphim, 
socia  exultatioue  conce- 
]ebrant.  Cum  quibus  et 
nostras  voces,  ut  admitti 
jubeas  cleprecamur,  sup- 
pi  ici  eoo,fessione  di- 
cerites : 


i 


T  is  truly  meet  and  j  ust, 
rijjht  and  available 
to  salvation,  that  we 
should  always,  and  in  all 
places,  give  thanks  to 
thee,  O  holy  Lord,  Fa- 
ther Almighty,  eternal 
God.  *  Thro'  Christ 
our  Lord  :  by  whom  the 
angels  praise  thy  Majesty, 
the  dominations  adore  it, 
the  powers  tremble  be- 
fore it,  the  heavens,  the 
heavenly  virtues,  and 
blessed  seraphim,  with 
common  jubilee  glorify 
it.  Together  with  whom. 
we  beseech  thee,  that  we 
may  be  admitted  to  join 
our  humble  voices,  say- 
ing: 


Santus,  sanctus,  sanc- 
tus, Dominus  Deus  Sa- 
baoth.  Pleni  stint  coeli 
et  terra  gloria  tua.  Ho- 
sanna  in  excel  sis.  Be- 
nedictus  qui  venit  in  no- 
mine Domini,  Hosanna 
in  excelsis. 


PREFACES.  XXI* 

Holy,  hol)%  holy,  Lord 
God  of  Sabaoth.  Hea- 
ven and  earth  are  full  of 
thy  glory.  Hosanna  in 
the  highest.  Blessed  is  he 
that  comes  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord,  Hosanna  in 
the  highest. 


On  TRINITY  SUNDAY,  and  on  evert/  oilier  Sunday 
in  the  Year  that  has  no  proper  Preface. 


*  Qui  cum  unigenito 
Filio  tuoet  Spiritu  Sanc- 
to  tin  us  es  Deus,  unus  es 
Dominus:  non  in  unius 
siugularitate  Personae, 
sed  in  unius  Trim  tale 
substantive. — Quod  enim 
cie  tua  gloria,  revelante 
te,  credimus,  hoc  dtr  Fi- 
)io  tuo,  hoc  de  Spiritu 
Sancto,  sine  differentia 
discretions  sentimus.  Ut 
in  confessione  verse  sem- 
phernseque  Deitaiis,  et 
inPersonis  proprietas,  et 
in  essentia  Uniias,  et  in 
Majestate  adoretureequa- 
Jitas.  Quam  laudant  an- 
geli  atque  archan^di, 
cherubim  quoque  ac  se- 
raphim, qui  non  cessant 
clamare  quotidie,  una 
voce  dicentes,  sanctus, 
&c. 


*  Who,  together  with 
thy  only  begotten  Son, 
and  the  Holy  Ghost,  art 
one  God,  and  one  Lord  : 
not  in  a  singularity  of 
Person,  but  in  a  Trinity 
of  substance.  For  what 
we  believe  of  thy  glory, 
as  thou  hast  revi.-ale'.l;  the 
same  \ve  believe  of  thy 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  without  any  dif- 
ference or  distinction.  So 
that,  in  the  confession  of 
the  true  and  eternal  De- 
ity, we  adore  a  distinc- 
tion in  the  Persons,  an 
unity  in  the  essence,  and 
an  equality  in  the  Ma- 
jesty. Whom  the  angels 
and  archangels,  the  che- 
rubim also  and  sera- 
phim praise,  and  cease 
not  daily  to  cry  out  with 
one  voice,  saying,  Holy, 
&c. 


From  CHRISTMAS-DAY*///  Ike  Epiphany:  on  Corpg 
Christi  ;  vndou  our  Lord's  Transfiguration. 


XXX  PREFACES. 

N.  B.  Prefaces  thus  marked  f  are  concluded  in  the 

name  manner  ax  tins. 
*  Quia  per  incarnati 
Verbi  mystenum,  nova 
menus  nostrse  ocuHs  lux 
tuse  claritatis  infulsit:  ut 
dum  visibiliter,  Deum 
cognoscirnus,  per  hunc 
in  invisibilium  amorem 
rapiarnur.  f  Et  ideo 
rum  angelis  et  archan- 
gelis,  cum  thronis  et 
dominationibus,  cnmque 
omni  militia  coe'c-stis 
exercitus,  hymnum  glo- 
rias  tuae  canimus,  sine 
fine  dicentes,  Sanctus, 
&c. 


*  Since  bv  the  myg. 
tery  of  the  Word  made 
flesh,  a  new  ray  of  thy 
glory  has  appeared  to  the 
eyes  of  our  souls-  that 
while  we  behold  God 
visibly,  we  may  be  car. 
ried  by  lnm  to  the  love 
of  things  invisible,  f  And 
therefore  with  the  angels 
and  archangels,  with  the 
thrones  and  dominations, 
and  with  all  the  heavenly 
host,  we  sing  an  ever- 
lasting  hymn  to  thy  glo. 


ry,  saying,  Holy,  &c. 
On  the  Epiphany  and  during  its  Octave. 


*  Quia  cum  unigenitus 
tuns'  in  substamia  nos- 
trat  mortalkatis  apparuit, 
nova  nos  im  mortal  itatis 
suse,  luce  reparavit.  *  Et 
ideo,  &c. 


*  Because  when  thy 
only  begotten  Son  ap~ 
peared  in  the  Substance 
of  our  mortal  flesh,  he 
repaired  us  by  the  new 
light  of  his  immortality. 
f  And  therefore,  &c. 

In  LENT  till  Passion  Sunday. 

*  Qui   corporal  i  jeju-         *  Who  by   this  bodily 
nio     vicia      con.primis,     fast     extinguishest     our 
mentem  elevas,  virtutern     vices,  elevatest  our  under- 
largiris  et  prssmia.  *  Per     standi  ,gs,  bestovvest   on 
Christum,  &c.  us  virtue  'and  its  reward. 

*  Thro',  &c. 

On  PASSION  andP^LM  SUISDAYS,    • 
Maundy  Thuisday  and  Feasts  of  t  lit  [ioly  Cross. 

*  Qui  salutem  hnm:ini         *  Whoha^tappoin'vcd 
generis  in    ligno   Crucis    that  the  sal  vaiion  ofni-iu, 


PREPACKS. 

constUuisti  :  ut  unde 
mors  oriebatur,  inde  vita 
resurgeret:  et  qui  in  lig- 
no  vincebat,  in  lig  o 
quoque  vinceretur.  *Per 
(Christum,  &c. 


VERB  dignum  et  jus- 
turn  est,  sequtim  et 
salutare,  tequidem,  Do- 
mine,  omni  tempore,  sed 
[in  hoc  potissimum  nocte 
?el  die,  vel]  in  hoc  glo- 
riosius  praedicare,  cum 
Pascha  nostrum  immola- 
tus  est  Chnstus.  Ipse 
enim  verus  est  Agnus, 
qui  abstulit  peccata  mun- 
di.  Qui  mortem  nostram 
moriendo  destruxit,  et 
yitam  resurgendo  repara- 
vit.  f  Et  ideo,  &c. 


I1;, 


xxxi 

kind  should  be  wrought 
on  the  wood  of  the  cross: 
that  from  whence  death 
came,  thence  life  might 
arise ;  and  that  he  who 
overcame  by  the  tree, 
might  also  by  the  tree  be 
overcome.  *  Thro1,  &c. 
From  HOLY  SATURDAY  tilt  the  Ascension. 

is  truly  me?t  and 
just,  right  and  avail- 
able to  salvation,  to 
praise  thee,  O  Lord,  at  all 
tunes,  but  chieiiy  on  this 
[night  or  day,  or  at  this 
time]  when  Christ  our 
Passover  was  sacrificed 
for  us.  l;or  lie  is  the  true 
Lamb  who  hath  tak-n 
away  the  sins  of  the 
world.  Who  by  dying 
has  destroyed  our  death, 
and  by  rising  again  has 
restored  us  to  life.  -fAnd 
tin  TO  fore,  &c. 

From  ASCENSION  DAY  till  Whitsun-Eve. 


*  Per  Christum  Domi- 
nnm  nostrum.  Qui  post 
fesunectionem  suam  om- 
nibus disci pulis  suis  ma- 
nikjtusapparuit,  et  ipsis 
cernemibus  est  elevatus 
in  cailunv  ut  nos  divini- 
su&i  tribueret  t-sse 
participes.  tEt  ideo,  &c. 


*  Thro*  Christ  our 
Lord.  Who  after  his  re- 
surrection appeared 
openly  to  all  his  disciples, 
and  in  their  presence  as- 
cended into  heaven,  to 
make  us  partakers  of  his 
divine  nature.  t  And 
therefore,  &c. 


PREFACES. 

From  WHITSUN.EVE   till  Trinity-Sunday;   and  in 
Votive  Masses  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 


*  Per  Christum  Domi- 
num nostrum.  Qui  ascen 
dens  super  omnes  ccelos, 
sedensque  ad  dexteram 
tuam,  promissum  Spiri- 
tum  sanctum  [hodierna 
die]  in  filios  adoptionis 
efFudit  Qua  proper  pro- 
fusis  gaudiis  totns  in  orbe 
terrarum  mundus  exul- 
tat  :  sed  et  sn peruse  vir- 
tntes  atque  angel  icae  po« 
testates,  hymnum  gloriae 
tuse  coRcinunt,  sine  fine 
dicentes,  Sanctus,  &c. 


*  Thro*  Christ  our 
Lord.  Who  ascending 
above  all  the  heavens, 
and  sitting  at  thy  right 
hand,  didst  send  down 
the  promised  holy  Spirit 
[this  day]  upon  the  chil- 
dren ofadoption.  Where- 
fore  the  whole  world  dis- 
plays its  excess  of  joy ; 
the  heavenly  virtues  also, 
and  all  the  angelic  pow- 
ers, sing  in  concert  an 
everlasting  hymn  10  thy 
glory,  saying,  Holy,  &c. 


On  FESTIVALS  of  the  B.V  MARY  (the  Purif  cation, 
exceptcd)  on  which  is  said  the  Preface  of  Christ- 
mas, 

in 


Et  te  in  N.  Beatse 
Ma  rise  semper  Virgin  is 
col  a  u  dare,  benedicere,  tt 
praedicare.  Quae  et  uni 
genitum  tuum  Sancti  Sni- 
ritus  obumbratione  con- 
cepit,  et  Virginitatis  glo- 
ria permanente  lumen 
seternum  mrndo  efFudit, 
Jesum  Christum  Domi- 
nurn  nostrum.  *Per 
quern,  &c. 


*  That  we  should 
praise,  bless,  and  glorify 
thee  on  the  N.  of  the 
blessed  Mary,  ever  a  Vir- 
gin. Who  by  the  over- 
shadowing of  the  Holy 
Ghost  eonceived  thy  on- 
ly begotten  Son,  and  the 
glory  of  her  virginity  still 
remaining,  brought  forth 
the  eternal  light  of  the 
world,  Jesus  Christ  our 
*By  whom,  &c. 


Lord. 
On  the  FESTIVALS  of  the  APOSTLES. 

V ERE  (lignum  et  jus-     IT  is    truly    meet  and 
tumest,  sequuaiet         just,  right  and  avail- 


then  dukt  not  require 
said  J,  Ik'hoJ  d  J  cojno  !  rt  —  vi* 


THC  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 


salutare,  te  Domine  sup- 
pliciter  exorare,  ut  gre- 
gem  tuum  Pastor  srterne 
n on  deseras,  sed  per  bea- 
tos  apostolos  tuosconti- 
m,a  protectione  custo- 
dias.  Ut  iisdem  rectori- 
bus  gubernetur,  q«uos 
operis'nii  vicarios  eidem 
contulisti  prseesse  pas- 
tores.  *  Et  ideo,  &c. 


able  to  salvation,  hum. 
bly  to  beseech  thee  that 
thou,  O  Lord,  our  eternal 
Shepherd,  wouldst  not 
forsake  thy  flock,  but 
keep  it  under  thy  conti- 
nual protection  by  thy 
blessed  apostles.  That 
it  may  be  governed  by 
those  whom  thou  hast 
appointed  its  vicars  and 
pastors.  *  And,  &c. 


THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 


TE  igitur  clementissi- 
me^Pater,  per  Jesum 
Christum  Filium  tuum 
Dominum  nostrum,  sup- 
pi  ices  rogamu.?,  ac  peti- 
IT. us,  uti  accepta  habeas 
et  benedicas  hsec  dona, 
Tiaec  munera,  hsec  sancta 
sacrificia  iilibata,  im- 
primis, qnae  tibi  otferimus 
pro  Kcclesia  tua  sancta 
catholica  ;  quam  paci« 
ficare,  custodire,  adu- 
nare,  et  regere  digneris 
toto  orbe  t^rrarum.  una 
cum  fanvaio  tuo  Papa 
nostro  N.  et  Antistite 
nostro  N.  et  Rege  nostro 
N.  et  omnibus  Orthodox- 
is,  atque  Catholicje  et 
Apostolic;*  F'ulei  Culto- 


WE  humbly  pray 
and  beseech  thee, 
therefore,  most  merciful 
Father,  thro'  Jesus  Christ 
thy  Son,  our  Lord,  that 
thou  wouldst  vouchsafe 
to  accept  and  bless  these 
Gifts,  these Presents,these 
holy  unspotted  Sacrifices, 
which  in  the  first  place 
we  offer  thee  for  thy 
holy  Catholic  Church,  to 
which  vouchsafe  to  grant 
peace;  as  also  to  pre- 
serve, unite,  and  govern 
it  throughout  the  world, 
together  with  thy  servant 
N.  oi! r  Pope,  "N.  our 
Bishop,  and  N.  our  King, 
as  also  all  orthodox  be- 
lievers and  professors  of 
the  catholi:  and  apostolic 
Faith. 


XXXIV 


THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 


COMMEMORATTO 

Memento,  Domine, 
famulorum  famularum- 
que  tuarum  N.  et  N. 

He  prays  silently  for  th> 

Et  omnium  circum- 
stantinm,  quorum  tibi 
fides  cognita  est,  et  nota 
devotio,  pro  quibus  tibi 
offerimus,  vel  qui  tibi 
offerunt  hoc  sacrificiuin 
laudis,  pro  se,  suisque 
omnibus,  pro  redemp- 
tione  animarum  suarum, 
pro  spe  salutis,  et  inco- 
iumititis  sure,  tibique 
reddunt  vota  sua  geterno 
Deo,  vivo  et  vero. 

COMMUNICANTES,     et 

tnemoriam  venerantes, 
imprimis  gloriosse  sem- 
per Virginia  Mafiae,  Ge- 
nitricis  Dei  et  Domiai 
nostri  jesa  Christi,  sed  et 
beatorurn  Apostolorum 
ac  Martyrum  tuorum, 
Petri  et  Pauli,  A.ndrese, 
Jacobi,  Joannis,  Thomas, 
Jacobi,  Philippi,  Bartho- 
iomsei,  Matthsei,  Simo- 
nis  et  Thadaei,  Lini, 
Cleti,  Clemen  us,  Xysti, 
Cornelii,  Cypriam,  Lau- 
rentii,  Chrysogoni,  Jo- 
annis  et  Pauli,  Cosrnse 


N  OF  THE  LIVING. 

Be  mindful,  O  Lord,  of 
thy  servants,  men  and 
women,  N.  and  N. 

?e  he  intends  to  pray  for. 

And  of  all  here  pre- 
sent, whose  Faith  and 
Devotion  is  known  unto 
thee,  for  whom  we  offer, 
or  who  offer  up  to  tivee 
this  sacrifice  of  praise  foe 
themscives,  their  families, 
and  friends,  for  the  re- 
demption of  their  souls, 
for  the  health  and  salva- 
tion they  hope  for,  and 
for  which  tliey  now  pay 
their  vows  to  thee,  the 
eternal,  living,  and  true 
God. 

COMMUNICATING  with, 
and  honouring  in  the 
first  place,  the  memory 
of  the  ever  glorious  Virgin 
Mary,  Mother  of  our 
Lord  and  God  Jesus 
Christ ;  as  also  ot  the 
blessed  Apostles  and 
Martyrs,  Peter  and  Paul, 
Andrew,  Jam  s,  John, 
Thomas,  Jam^s,  Philip^ 
Bartholomew ,  Matthew, 
Si.non  and  Thadeus^ 
Linus,  Cietus,  Clement^ 
Xystus,  Co:nf.jli  s,  Cy- 
prian, Lav/rence,  Chryso.^ 
goaus,  John  and.  Paul 


THE  CANON  OF  THE   MASS.  XXXV 

et  Damiani,  et  omnium  Cosmas  and  Damian,  and 
Sanctorum  tuorum  ;  quo- 
ruin  mentis  prccibusque 
concedas,  it  in  omnibus 
protection'^  tuse  muuia- 
mur  auxilio.  Per  eun- 
dem  Christum  Dominurn 


nostrum.  Amen. 


of  all  thy  Saints;  by 
whose  merits  and  prayers, 
grant  that  we  may  be 
always  defended  by  the 
heip  of  thy  protection. 
Thro*  the  same  Christ 
our  Lord.  Amen. 


Spreading  his  Hands  ovtr  the  Oblation,  he  says, 


Hanc  i^ffur  obla- 
tlonern  serviuitis  nostrcv, 
sed  et  cunctae  I'arniliai 
luce,  cjiisesiimus  Domwcy 
ut  placates  «ccipi;isj 
diesque  nostros  in  tua 
pace  disponas,  atque  ab 
aeterna  damnatione  nos 
eripi,  et  in  Eieciorum  tu- 
orum  jubeas  gr<-ge  nu- 
merari.  Per  Christum 
Dominum  nostrum. 
Amen. 

Quam  oblationem1  tu 
Detis  in  omnibus,  q use- 
sum  us,  benedictam,  ad- 
script  am,  ratam,  ratio. 
nabilem,  acceptabilem- 
que  facere  digneris ;  ut 
nobis  Corpus  et  Sanguis 
fiat  delectissimi  Filii  tui 
Domini  nostri  Jesu 
Chrisii. 

Qui  pridie  qnam  pate- 
r<  .  ".r,  accepit  pancm  in 
sanctas  ac  vencrabiles 
man  us  suas.  et  clevatis 
occulis  in  ccclum,  ad  te 
Deiun  Patrem  suum  orri- 


\Vt  thcrefure  be- 
seecii  thee,  O  Lord,  gra- 
riounly  to  accept  this  ob- 
lation of  our  servitude, 
as  also  of  thy  whole  fa- 
mily  ;  "dis|)ose  our  days 
in  thy  peace,  preserve 
us  from  eternal  damna- 
tion, and  rank  us  ,  in 
the  number  of  thine 
L'ert.  Thro'  Christ  our 
Lord.  Amen. 

Which  oblation  do 
thou>  O  God,  vouchsafe 
in  all  respects,  to  bless, 
approve,  ratify  and  ac- 
cept 5  that  it  may  be  made 
for  us  the  body  and  blood 
of  thy  most  beloved  Son 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 


Who  the  day  before 
he  suffered,  took  bread 
into  his  holy  and  vene- 
rable hands,  and  with  his 
eyes  lifted  up  towards 
heaven,  giving  thanks  to 


'XXXV  111 


THE  CANON  OF  THE.MASS. 


sumpserimus,  omni  bene. 
diccione  coelesti  et  gratia 
repleamur.  Per  eundem 
Christum  Dominum  no- 
strum. Amen. 


thy  Son  at  this  altar,  may 
be  filled  with  every  hea- 
venly grace  and  blessing. 
Thro'  the  same  Christ 
our  Lord.  Amen. 


COMMEMORATION  OF   THE  DEAD. 


Memento  etiam,  Do- 
mine,  famulorum  famu- 


Be  mindful,  O  Lord, 
of  thy  servants  N. and  N. 


larumque  tuarum   N.   et     who  are  gone  before  us, 
N.  qui  nos  prsecesserunt     with   the  sign   of  Faith, 
cjiimsigno  Fidei,  et  dor- 
miunt  insomno  pacis. 


and  rest  in  the  sleep  of 
peace. 

Here  particular  mention  is  sihnthj  made  of  such  of 
the  Dead  as  arc  to  be  prayed  j  or. 

To  these,  O  Lord,  and 
to  all  that  sleep  in  Christ, 
grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
a  place  of  refreshment, 
light,  and  peace  :  thro' 
the  same  Christ  our  Lord. 


Ipsis,  Domine,  et  om- 
nibus in  Christo  quies- 
cantibus,  locum  refrige- 
rii,  lucis  et  pncis,  ut  in- 
dulgeas  deprecamur:  per 
eundem  Christum  Do- 
minum nostrum.  Amen. 


Amen. 


Here,  slri k i ng  h is 
Nobis  quoque  pecca- 
toribus  famulis  tuis  de 
multitudine  miseratio- 
pum  tuarum  sperantibus 
I>artem  aUquam  et  so- 
cietatem  donar  j  digneris, 
cum  tuis  sancMs  apostolis 
et  mart.yribtis  •  cum  Jo- 
anne, Stephano,  Mat- 
thia,  Barnaba,  Ignatio, 
Alexandro,  Marcel  lino, 
Petro,  Felicitate,  Per- 
petua,  Agatha,  Lucia, 
Agriete,  Csecilia,  Anas* 


Breast,  the  Priest  says, 

Also  to  us  sinners,  thy 
servants,  confiding  in  the 
multitude  of  thy*  mercies, 
vouchsafe  to  grant  some 
part  and  fellowship  with 
thy  holy  apostles  and 
martyrs;  with  John,  Ste- 
phen, Matthias,  Barna- 
bas, Ignatius,  Alexander, 
Marcel  line,  Peter,  Fell, 
citas,  Perpetua,  Agatha, 
Lucy,  Agnes,  Cecily, 
Anastasia,  and  wilh  all 
thy  saints:  into  whose 


tasia,  et  omnibus  sanctis 
tuis  :  intra  quorum  nos 
consortium,  nonaestimu- 
tor  meriti,  sed  venise, 
quaesumus  largitor  ad- 
mitte.  Per  Christum  Do- 
mi  nu m  nostrum. 

Per  quern  hsec  om- 
nia,  Domine,  semper 
bona  creas,  sanrti  fl- 
eas, vivincas,  benedicis, 
et  prsestas  nobis.  Per 
ipsum,  et  cum  ipso,  et 
in  ipso,  est  tibi  Deo  Patri 
omnipotent!,  in  unitate 
Spiritus  Sancti,  orrmis 
honor  et  gloria. 

P.  Per  omnia  saecula 
Eseculorum.  R.  Amen. 

Oremus. 

PRseceptis   sahitaribus 
moniti,    et     d.vina 
institutioae  formati,   au- 
demus  dicere  : 

Pater  noster,  qni  es  in 
coelis,  sanctificettir  no- 
men  tuum  ;  adveniat 
regnum  tuum  :  fiat  vo- 
luntas  uia  sicut  in  coelo, 
H  ii,  terra  :  pjnem  nos- 
trum quotidianum  da 
nohis  iiudie  ;  <?t  dimiite 
nob;.s  el-,  bita  nostra,  si- 
cut  et  nos  dhnittimus 
debitoribus  nostris:  et  ne 
D 


THR>CANON  OF  THE  MASS.  XXXIX 

company      we     beseech 


thee  to  admit  us,  not  in 
consideration  of  our  me- 
rit, but  of  thy  own  gra- 
tuitous pardon.  ThfO* 
Christ  our  Lord. 

By  whom,  O  Lord, 
tbou  dost  always  cre- 
ate, sanctify,  quicken, 
bless,  and  give  us  all 
these  pood,  things.  By 
him,  a;ul  with  bim, 
and  in  him,  is  to  thee, 
God  the  Father  Almigh- 
tv,  in  the  unity  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  ail  honour 
and  ^lory. 

P.  For  ever  and  ever. 
R.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray. 

BEi'ig    instructed    by 
thy   saving  precepts, 
and  following  iny  divine 
directions,    we    presume 
to  say  ; 

Our  Father,  who  art 
in  heaven,  hallowed  be 
thy  name  :  thy  kingdom 
CD  e  :  thy  will  he  done 
o;>  earth,  as  it  is  in  hea- 
ven .  give  us  this  day  our 
daily  DfcaJ  ;  and  forgive 
us  our  trespa_sses,  as  we 
forgive  tiit- m  that  trespass 
against  us.  And  lead  us 
not  into  temptation ; 


xl 


THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 


nos  inducas  in  tentatio- 
nem  :  R.  Sed  libera  nos 
a  malo.  P.  Amen. 

Libera  nos,  quaesum  us, 
Domine,  ab  omnibus 
mails,  preEteritis,  prse- 
sentibus  et  futuris  :  et  in 
tercedente  beata  et  glo-  - 
riosa  semper  Virgine  Dei 
Genitrice  Maria,  cum 
beatis  apostolis  tnis  Petro 
et  Paulo,  atque  Andrea, 
et  omnibus  sanctis,  da 
propitius  pacem  in  die- 
bus  nostris  :  ut  ope  mi- 
sericordiae  tuse  adjuti,  et 
a  peccato  simus  semper 
liberi,  et  ab  omnia  per- 
tufbatione  securi.  Per 
eundem  Dominum  nos. 
trum  Jesum  Christum  Fi- 
lium  tuum,  qui  tecum 
vivit  et  regnat,  in  imitate 
Spiritus  Sancti,  Deus. 

P.  Per  omnia  ssecula 
saeculorum.     R.  Amen. 

P.    Pax     Domini    sit 
semper  vpbiscum. 


R.  Et  cum 


tuo. 


R.  But   deliver  u*  from 
evil.     P.  Amen. 

Deliver  us,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  from  all 
evils  past,  present,  and  to 
come :  and  by  the  in- 
tercession  of  the  blessed, 
and  ever  glorious  Virgin 
Mary  Mother  of  God, 
and  of  the  holy  apostles 
Peter  and  Paul,  and  of 
Andrew,  and  of  all  the 
saints,  mercifully  grant 
peace  in  our  days  :  that 
thro'  the  assistance  of  thy 
mercy,  we  may  be  al- 
ways free  from  sin,  and 
secure  from  all  disturb- 
ance. Thro*  the  same 
Jesus  Christ,  thy  Son  our 
Lord,  who  with  thee  and 
the  Holy  Ghost  liveth 
and  rei^neth,  God. 

P.  World  without  end. 
R.  Amen. 

P  May  the  peace  of 
the  Lord  be  always  with 
you. 

R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 


Breaking  the  Host,  he  puts  a  Particle  thereof  into  the 
Chalice,  sat/ing,  May  this  mixture,  and  consecra- 
tion of  the  body  and  blood  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  be  to  us  that  receive  it  effectual  to  eternal 
life.  Amen. 
Then-  bowing,  and  striking  his  Breast t  he  says, 


THE  CANON  OF   THE  MASS. 

Agnus  Dei,  qui  tollis 
peccata  mundi, 

*  miserere  nobis, 

*  miserere  nobis, 

*  dona  nobis  pacem. 


xli 

Lamb  of  God,  who 
takest  away  the  sins  of 
the  world,  *  have  mercy 
upon  us,  *  have  mercy 
upon  us,  *  give  us  peace. 


In  Masses  for  the  DEAD  he  says  twice,  Give  them 
rest; ' and  lastly,  *  Give  them  eternal  rest. 

The  following  Prayer  is  also  omitted. 
Domine  Jesu  Christe,  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who 
saidst  to  thy  apostles,  1 
leave  you  peace,  I  give 
you  my  peace,  regard 
not  my  sins,  but  the 
faith  of  thy  Church  -,  and 
grant  her  that  peace  and 
unity  which  is  agreeable 


qui  dixisti  apostolis  tuis 
pacem  relinquo  vobis, 
pacem  meam  do  vobis, 
ne  respicias  peccata  mea, 
sed  fidera  Ecclesise  tuse  ; 
eamque  secundum  vo- 
luntatem  tuam  pacifi- 
care  et  coadunare  digne- 
ris  :  qui  vivis  et  regnas 
Deus,  per  omnia  saecula 
saeculorum.  Amen. 

Domine  Jesu  Christe, 
Fili  Dei  vivi,  qui  ex  vo. 
luntate  Patris,  co-ope- 
rante  Spiritu  Sancto,  per 
mortem  tuam  mundum 
vivificasti,  libera  me  per 
hocsacro- sanctum  corpus 
et  san^uinem  tuum  ab 
omnibus  iniquitatibus 
meis,  et  universis  malis  : 
et  fac  me  tuis,  semper 
inhserere  mandatis,  et  a 
te  nunquam  separari  per- 
mittas  :  qui  cum  eodem 
Deo  Patre  et  Spiritu 
Sancto  vivis  et  regnas 


to  thy  will  i  who  livest 
and  reign est  for  ever  afr<i 
ever.  Amen. 

Lord  Jesus  Christ,  Son 
of  the  living  God,  who, 
according  to  the  will  of 
thy  Father,  hast  by  thy 
death,  thro1  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
given  life  to  the  world, 
deliver  me  by  this  thy 
most  sacred  body  and 
blood  from  all  my  ini- 
quities, and  from  all 
evils  j  and  make  me  al- 
ways adhere  to  thy  com- 
mandments, aiid  never 
suffer  me  tobeseparate^ 
from  thee:  who 


Xlii  THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 

Pens  in  ssecula  saeculo-  and    reignest    with  God 

rum.    Amen.  the  Father  in  the  unity 
of,  &c.     Amen. 

Perceptio  corporis  tui,  Let  not  the  participa- 

Domine     Jesu     Cbriste,  tion  of  thy  body,  O  Lord 

quod   ego    indignus  su-  Jesus  Christ,    which    I, 

mere  pisesumo,  non  mi-  tho'  unworthy,    presume 

hi  proveniat  .n  judicium  to   receive,    turn   to  my 

ct  condernn«tionem  ,  sed  judgment    and  condem- 

pro    tun    pieUHe     prosit  nation ;    hut    thro'    thy 

inihi      ad     tutamentum  mercy,  may  it  be  a  safe- 

mentis  et  corporis,    et  ad  guard  and  remedy,  both 

Biedelam '^ercipiendam:  of  soul  and  bod\  :  who 

qui  vivis  et  regnas  cum  with  God  the  Father,  in 

Pep    Patre,    in    .unitate  the   unity    of    the  Holy 

Spiritus  Sancti  Deus  per  Ghost,  Hvest  and  reigiiest 

oninia    ssecula    sceculo-  God  for  ever  and  t-vtr. 

rum.     Amen.  Amen. 

Ticking  the  Host  in  his  Hands,   he  says, 

Panem    coelesterri    ac-  I  will  take  the  bread  of 

cipiiim,    et  nornen   Do-  heaven,    and   call   upon 

mini  invocabo.  the  name  of  our  Lord. 

Striking  his  Breast,  in  Humility  and  Devotion,    lie 

says  thrice, 

Domine,  non  sum  dig-  Lord,  I  am  not  worthy 
lius  ut  iutrts  sub  tectum  that  thou  sbouUIst  enter 
meum  ,  sed  tantum  die  under  my  roof;  say  but 
yerbo,  et  sanabitur  ani--  the  word,  and  my  soul 
rna  mea.  shall  be  healed. 

Receiving  rroerrntly  both  Parts  of  the  Host,  he,  says, 

Corpus  Domini  nostri  May  the  body  of  our 
Jesu  Christ!  custodial  Lord  Jesus  Christ  prer 
animam  meam  in  vitam  serve  my  soul  to  life 
getemam.  Amen.  everlasting.  Amen. 

Taking  the  Chalice,  he  says, 
.Quid  retribuam  JDomi-        What  return    shall    1 


THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS.  xllii 

no  pro  omnibus  quae  re-  make  the  Lord  for  all  he 
tribuii  niiin  ?  C  aiicem  has  givt-n  to  me  ?  I  will 
saluuiris  accipiam,  et  no-  take  tr.e  Cftalice  of  sal- 
men  Domini  iuvocabo.  vation,  and  call  upon 
Laudans  irjvocabo  Do-  the  name  of  the  Lord, 
xninum,  et  ab  imimcis  Praising  I  wsii  call  upon 
nieis  salvus  ero.  „  the  Lord,  and  shall  be 

saved  from  my  e  .emies. 
Receiving  the  Blood  of  our  Saviour,   he  says, 
Sangms  Domini  nostri         The  biood ->f  our  Lord 
Jesu      Christi     custodiat     Jesus  Chris1    preserve  my 
animam  meam    in  vitam     soul    to  everlasting   life, 
aeternam.      Amen.  Amen. 

Taking  thefrst  Ablutim,  he  sriys, 
Qnod  i>re  sumpsiimis,         Gran*,  Lord,  that  what 
Domine,  pura  meute  ca-     we  have  taken  with  our 
piamus,     et    de    munere     mouth,   we  may    receive 
temporal!,  fiat  nobis  re-     with  a  pure   mind,  that 
medium  sempiternum.         of  a  temporal  gfift  it  may 
become  to  us  an  eternal 
remedy. 

Taking  the  second  Ablution,  he  says, 
Corp  pa  tu  urn  Domine,  May  thy  body,  OLord, 
quod  sumpsi,  et  sanguis  which  1  have  received, 
quern  potavi,  adhaereat  and  thy  blood  which  I 
viscer  busmeis;  et  praesta,  have  drank,  cleave  to  my 
ut  in  me  non  remaneat  bowe's;  and  grant,  ihat 
scvlemm  macula,  quern  no  stain  of  sin  may 
pura  et  sancta  refecerunt  remain  in  me,  who  have 
sacramenta.  Qui  vivis  been  fed  with  this  pure 
et  legiias  in  sseci  la  sac-  and  holv  sacrament.  Who 
.culorum.  Amen.  livest  and  reignest,  &c. 

fton  he  return*  to  the  Book,  and  rcudx  ///eCcMMU- 

NION,  which-  miiy  be  scot  in  ii$  proper  Ftuci. 
Dominus  vobiscum.  The  Lord  be  with  you. 

R.  Et  cum spiritu  tuo.          R.  Ar.d  with  thy  spirit. 
Orenius.  Let  us  pray* 


XllV  THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 

From  Candlemas- day  till  Passion  Sunday,   and  from 

the  III.  Sunday  ajtcr  Pentecost  until  Advent,  (or. 

cept   on  Doubles   and  within  Octaves)  after   the 

proper  Po ST c O  M  M  u  N I o N ,    the  following  is  the 

II.  POSTCOM      {Mundet)     May  the  oblation 

of  this  divine  sacrament,  we  beserch  thee,   O  Lord, 

both  cleanse  and  defend  us  ;  and  by  the  intercession 

of  the  blessed  Mary   the  Virgin- Mother  of  God,    of 

the  blessed   apostles  Peter  and  Paul,   of  blessed  N. 

and  of  all  the  saints,  free  us  from  all  sin,   and  deliver 

us  from  all  adversity. 

JirojH  Low  Sunday  exclusively,  till  the  Ascension,  in- 
stead of  the  foregoing,  is  said  the  P.  Co  MM.  Sumptis, 
&c.  as  in  tL  Votive  Mass  SALVE  fur  the  B.  V.  M. 
After  the  Postcommunion  is  added  the  Prayer, 
(Etfawulos.) 

DEFEND  also,  O  Lord,  from  all  adversity,  thy 
servant  N.  our  Pope,  N.  our  Bishop,  George 
our  King,  Charlotte  our  Queen,  and  the  royal  is. 
sue,  together  with  the  people  and  army  committed 
to  bis  care:  grant  peace  in  our  days,  and  banish 
all  wickedness  from  thy  Church  :  thro',  &c. 

Dominus  vobiscum.  The  Lord  be  with  you, 

R.  Et  cumspiritu  tuo.          R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 

Itc  missa  est,  (vel)  Be-  Go,  you  are  dismissed, 
nedicamus  Domino.  (or)  Let  us  bless  theLord. 

R.  Deo  gratias.  R.  Thanks  be  to  God. 

In  Masses  for  the  Dead. 

P.Requiescant  in  pace.         P.  May    they  rest   in 

R.  Amen.  peace.     R.  Amen. 

Bowing  before  the  Altar,    the  Priest  says, 

Placeat  tibi  sancta  Let  the  performance 
Trinitas,  obsequium  ser-  of  my  homage  be  pleasing 
vitutis  meoe;  et  praesta,  to  thee,  O  holy  Trinity  : 
ut  sacrifkium  quod  oc-  and  grant  that  the  sacri- 
culis  tttse  Majestatis  in-  fice  which  I,  tho'unwor- 
dignusobtuli,  tibi  sit  ac-  thy,  have  offered  vip  in 
ceptabile,  mihique,  et  the  sight  of  thy  Majesty, 


THE  CANON  OF  THE  MASS. 


xlv 


omnibus  proquibus  illud 
obtuli,  sit  te  miserante, 
prop'tiabile.  Per  Chris- 
tum Domiiuim  nostrum. 
Amen. 


may  be  acceptable  to 
thee,  and  thro'  thy  mercy 
be  a  propitiation  tor  me, 
and  all  those  for  whom  it 
has  been  offered.  Thro*. 


Turning  himself  towards  the  People,  he  gives  them  his 
Blessing,  spying, 

May  Almighty  God,  the  Father,   Son,  and  Holy 
Ghost,  bless  you.     Amen. 

P.  Our  Lord  be  wit*1 
you.  R.  £nd  with  tl^ 
spirit.  P,  The  Beginning 
of  the  Gospel  according 
to  St.  John.  R.  GlorY 
be  to  thee,  O  Lord. 
TN  the  beginning  was 
-*•  the  Word,  and  the 
Wo1  d  was  with  God,  and 
God  was  the  Word  :  j:he 
same  was  in  the  begin- 
ning with  God.  All  things 
were  made  by  him,  and 
without  him  was  made 
nothing  that  was  made  j 
in  him  was  lite,  and  the 
life  was  the  light  of  men  : 
and  the  light  shineth  in 
darkness,and  the  darkness 
did  not  comprehend  it. 

There  was  a  man  tent 
from  God,  whose  name 
was  John.  This  man 
came  for  a  witness,  to 
give  testimony  of  the 
light,  that  all  men  might 
believe  thro'  him.  He 
was  not  the  light,  but 


P.  Dominus  vobiscum. 
R.  Et  cum  spirit u  tuo. 
P.Initium  sanctiEvange- 
lii  secundum  Joannem. 
R.  Gloria  tibi,'  Domine. 

TN  principio  erat  Ver- 
•*  bum,  et  Verbum  erat 
apud  Deum  ;  et  Deus 
erat  Verbum  :  hoc  erat  in 
principio  apud  Deum. 
Omnia  per  ipsum  facta 
sunt,  et  sine  ipso  factum 
est  nihil,  quod  factum 
eat :  in  ipso  vita  erat, 
et  vita  erat  hixhominum: 
et  lux  in  tenebris  lucet,  et 
tenebrse  earn  non  com- 
prehendemnt. 

Fuit  homo  missus  a 
Deo,  cui  nomen  erat  Jo- 
annes. Hie  venit  in  tes- 
timonium,  ut  testimoni- 
um  perhiberet  de  lumi- 
ne,  ut  oiiines  crederent 
per  ilium.  Non  erat  ille 
lux  j  sed  ut  testimonium 


V.  R.  AND  PRAYER.  FOR  THE  KING. 


perhiberet  de  lumine. 
Erat  lux  veraqnae  illumi- 
nat  omnem  hominem 
venientem  in  hunc  rmm- 
dum. 

In  mundo  erat,  et 
mundus  per  ipsum  factus 
est,  et  mundus  eum  non 
cognovit.  In  propria 
venit,  et  suieum  non  re- 
ceperunt.  Quotquotau- 
tem  receperunt  eum,  de- 
dit  eis  potestaum  filios 
Dei  fieri  :  his  qui  ere- 
dunt  in  nomine  ejus,  qui 
non  ex  sanguinibus,  ne- 
qne  ex  voluntate  carnis, 
jieque  ex  voluntate  viri  ; 
sed  ex  Deo  nati  sunt;  Et 
VERBUM  CARO  FACIUM 
EST,  et  habitavit  in  no- 
bis;  et  vidimus  gloriam 
ejus,  gloriam  quasi  uni- 
geniti  a  Patre,  plenum 
gratiae  et  ventatis. 


R*  Deo  gratias. 


came  to  give  testimony 
of  the  light.  He  was  the 
true  light  which  eniight- 
eneth  every  man  that 
cometh  into  this  world. 

He  was  in  the  world, 
and  the  world  was  made 
by  him,  and  the  world 
knew  him  not.  He  came 
unto  his  own,  and  his 
own  received  him  not. 
But  as  many  as  received 
him,  to  them  he  gave 
power  to  become  the 
sons  of  God  :  to  those 
that  believe  in  his  name, 
who  are  born,  not  of 
blood,  nor  of  the  will  of 
theflesh,  nor  of  the  will 
of  man,  but  of  God  ; 
And  THE  WORD  WAS 
MADE  FLESH,  and  dwelt 
among  us;  and  we  saw 
his  glory,  as  it  were  the 
glory  of  the  only  begot- 
ten of  the  Father,  full. of 
grace  and  truth. 

R.  Thanks  be  to  God. 


After  solemn  Muss,  the  following  VEKSICLES  and 

RESPONSES  are  sung  for  the  King. 
V.  Donu;;e,  salvum  facRegem  nostrum  Georgium. 
R  Etexaudi  nps  in  die  qua  invocaverimus  te. 
V.  Gloria  Patri,   et  Fi'io,  et  Spiritui  Sancto. 
R.  Sicut  erat  in  principio,  &c. 

Prajer.      (Qusesumus.) 

WE  beseech  thee,  6  Almighty  God,   that  thy 
servant,  George  our  King,   who  thro'  thy 


BEFORE,  AND  AT  THE  BENEDICTION. 

mercy  hath  undertaken  the  government  of  these 
realms,  may  also  receive  an  increase  of  all  virtues, 
wherewith  being  adorned,  he.  may  avoid  every  enor- 
mity of  sin,  [vanquish  his  enemies,]  and  being  ren- 
dered acceptable  in  thy  sight,  may,  together  with 
Charlotte  our  Queen,  and  the  royal  issue,  come  at 
length  tothee,  who  art  the  way,  the  truth,  and  the 
life.  Thro'. 

Whilst  the  Priest  (before  the  Benediction)  is  taking 
the  B.  Sacrament  out  of  the  Tabernacle,  the  fol- 
lowing Hymn  is  generally  sung  : 


OSalutaris  hpstia  ! 
Quse    coeli    pandis 
ostium  : 
Bella  premunt  hostilia: 


Da  robur,   ferauxilium. 

2.  Uni  trinoque   Do- 
mino, 
Sitsempiterna  gloria: 

Qui  vitam  sine  termino, 
Nobis  donet  in  patria. 


Sacra- 


TAntum  ergo 
mentum, 
Veneremur  cernui 


Et  antiquum   docu  men- 
tum 
Novo  cedat  ritui ; 


Saving  Host!    that 

he  aven's  gate 
Laidst  open  at  so  dear  a 

rate : 
Intestine  wars  invade  our 

breast  ; 
Be    thou    our    strength, 

support,  and  rest. 
2.  To  God  the  Fatrfer, 

and  the  Son, 
And  Holy  Spirit,  Three 

in  One, 
Be  endless  praise  :    may 

HE  above, 

With   life  eternal  crown 
our  love. 

At  the  Benediction. 


TO    this    mysterious 
table  now, 
Our  knees,   our    hearts, 

and  sense  we  bow: 
Let   ancient  rites  resign 

their  place 

To  nobler  elements   of 
grace: 


xlviii 


AT  THE  BENEDICTION. 


Praestet  fides  supplement 

turn, 
Sensuum  defectui. 

Genitori,  genitdque 
Lauset  jubilatio: 

Salus,  honor,  virtus,  quo. 

que, 
Sit  et  benedictio ; 

Procedenti  ab  utroque, 

Comparsit  laudatio. 

Amen. 

V.  Panem  de  coe'o, 
pr£estitisti  eis,  Alleluia. 

R.  Omne  delectamen- 
tum  in  se  habentem,  Al- 
leluia. 


And  faith  for  all  defects 

supply, 
Whilst   sense  is  lost   in 

mystery 
To  God    the    Father 

born  of  none, 
To  Christ  his  co- eternal 

Son, 
And  Holy  Ghost,  whose 

equal  rays 
From   both  proceed,  be 

equal  praise ; 
One  honour,  jubilee,  and 

fame, 
For  ever  bless  his  glorious 

name.     Amen. 
V.  Thou    hast     given 
them  bread  from  heaven, 
Alleluia. 

R.  Replenished  with 
whatever  is  delicious, 
Alleluia. 


The  Prayer. 


T^vEUS,  qui  nobis,  sub 
JLJ  sacramento  mira- 
bili  passionis  tuae  memo- 
riam  reliquisti ;  tribue 
queeSfotoius,  ita  nos  cor- 
poris  et  sarguinis  tui, 
tacra  mysteria  venerari 
ut  redemptionis  tui  fruc- 
tum  in  nobis  jugiter 
gentiamus.  Qui. 


OGod,  who  in  this 
wonderful  sacra- 
ment, hast  left  us  a  per- 
petual memorial  of  thy 
passion :  grant  us,  we 
beseech  thee,  so  to  re- 
verence the  sacred  mys- 
teries of  thy  body  and 
blood,  as  in  our  sou  !>  :o 
be  always  sensible  of  the 
redemption  thou  hast 
purchased  for  us.  Who. 


PROPER  MASSES 

For  the  Sundays  and  Moveable  Feasts. 

FIRST  SUNDAY  OF  ADVENT. 

HPH5  Church  employs  the  four  weeks  that  precede 
JL  Chrijhnas  in  preparing  the  faithful  for  that  great  fo- 
lemnity  ;  hence  the  beginning  of  the  ecclefiaftical  year  is 
called  Advent,  from  the  Latin  word  Advent  us  >  which  figni- 
fiesthe  coming,  viz.  of  JelusChrirt.  Our  firfl  parents,  (bust 
after  their  fall,  were  comforted  with  the  prediction  of  this 
great  event,  when  God  aflu red  them  that  the  time  would 
come  when  *«  the  feed  of  the  woman  mould  crufh  the 
"  head  of  the  ferpent."  This  promife  was  renewed  to 
Abraham,  confirmed  to  Ifaac,  determined  to  the  tribe  of 
Juda,  fixed  in  the  houfe  of  David  ;  and  lailly,  the  time 
of  its  peifeft  accomplimment  was  exactly  calculated  by 
the  prophet  Daniel. 


INTROLT.     Ps.  xxiv. 

TO  thee  have  I  raised        /JD   te   levavi  anin?>m 
up  my  soul :  O  my     -"    weam  :   Deus  meust 
Cjod,   in  thee  I  trust,   let     in  te  confido,   non  crubts- 
aiv.  not  be  put  toshame:     cam:  ncquc  irridcant  me 
E 


50  FIRST  SUNDAY 

neither  let  my  enemies  inimici  mei :  etenim  uni* 
scoff  at  me  :  for  none  versi,  qui  te  expectant, 
shall  be  disappointed,  non  confundentur.  Ps. 
who  wait  for  theeN  Ps.  Vias  tuas,  Domine,  de- 
Shew  to  me,  O  Lord,  thy  monstra  mihi  :  et  scwitas 
ways:  and  teach  me  thy  tuas  edoceme. 
paths. 

F.  Glory,  &c.  V.  Gloria  Patri,  §t. 

To  thee,  &c.  to  Ps.  Ad  te,  %c.  to  Ps. 

And  thus  the  Introit  is  always  repeated. 
Gloria  in  excelsis  is  omitted  from  this  Sunday  till 

Christmas,     and    from   Septuagesima  until  Eas- 
ter,  unless  on  doubles,  <$r. 

COLL.  Excita,  qu(?s.-— Exert,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  thy  power,  and  come  ;  that  by  thy  protec- 
tion we  may  be  freed  from  the  imminent  dangers  of 
our  sins,  and  be  saved  by  thy  mercy,  who  liveth 
and  reigneth,  &c.  U.  Amen. 
1'ror/i  this  day  to  Christmas-eve,  after  the  Collect  of 
the  dai/y  the  tico  following  Collects  are  said. 

n.  COLLECT.  Dem  qid  — O  God,  who  wast 
pleased  that  thy  Word,  when  the  angel  delivered  his 
message,  should  take  flesh  in  the  womb  of  the  bles- 
sed Virgin  Mary ;  give  ear  to  our  humble  petitions ; 
and  erant,  that  we  who  believe  her  to  be  truly  the 
Mother  of  God,  may  be  helped  by  her  prayers. 

III.  COLLECT.  Eccl.  ^.—Mercifully  hear, 
we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  the  prayers  of  thy  Church, 
that  all  oppositions  and  errors  being  removed,  she 
may  servo*  thee  with  a  secure  and  undisturbed  devo- 
tion.  Thro*,  &c.  Amen. 

Or  instead  of  the  last  Collect,  (Eccl.  tuse,)  the  follow-, 
ing  may  be.  said. 

COLLECT.  Deus  omnium.— O  God,  the  pastor 
and  governor  of  all  the  faithful,  look  down  in  thy 
mercy  on  thy  servant  N.  whom  thou  hast  appointed 
Pastor  over  thy  Church  :  and  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that,  both  by  word  and  example,  he  may  ediiy 


IN  ADVENT.  51 

all  those  that  are  under  his  charge,  and,  with  the 
flock  intrusted  to  him,  arrive,  at  length,  at  eternal 
happiness.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Rom.  xiii.  11.  i4.~Brethren  :  Know 
that  it  is  now  the  hour  for  us  to  rise  from  sleep.  For 
now  our  salvation  is  nearer  than  when  we  believed. 
The  night  is  past,  and  the  day  is  at  hand  :  IK  us 
therefore  cast  off  the  works  of  darkness,  and  put  on 
the  armour  of  light.  Let  us  walk  honestly,  as  in  the 
day :  not  in  rioting  and  drunkenness :  not  in 
chambering  and  impurities:  not  in  contention  and 
envy  :  but  put  ye  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxiv. — None,  O  Lord,  who  wait 
for  thee,  shall  be  disappointed.  V.  Thy  ways,  O 
Lord,  make  known  to  me,  and  thy  paths  do  thou 
teach,  me.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Shew  us,  O  Lord,  V.  Ostendc  nobis,  Do. 
thy  mercy,  and  grant  us  mine,  misericord'uun  tuuni, 
thy  salvation.  Alleluia.  et  salutare  tuum  da  nbbis. 
Alleluia. 

<EO£ptl«.  Luke  x*i.  25.  33. — At  that  time-. 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples-  There  shall  be  signs  in  the 
sun,  and  in  the  moon,  and  in  tfte  stars:  and  upon 
the  earth  distress  of  nations,  by  reason  of  the  confu- 
sion of  the  roaring  of  the  sea  and  of  the  waves,  men 
withering  away  lor  fear,  and  expectation  of  what 
shall  come  upon  the  whole  world.  For  the  powers 
of  the  heavens  shall  be  moved  :  and  then  they  shall 
see  the  Son  of  Man  coming  in  a  cloud  with  great 
power  and  majesty.  But  when  these  things  begin 
to  come  to  pass,  look  up,  and  lift  up  your  heads  : 
because  your  redemption  is  at  hand.  And  he  spoke 
to  them  a  similitude:  See  the  fig  tree  and  all  the 
trees:  when  they  now  shoot  forth  their  fruit,  you 
know  the  summer  is  nigh  :  so  likewise  when  you  see 
these  things  come  to  pass,  know  that  the  kingdom 
of  God  is  at  hand.  Amen,  1  say  to  you,  this  gene, 
ration  shall  not  pass  away,  till  all  things  be  fultilled. 


52  FIRST  SUNDAY 

Heaven  and  earth  shall  pass  away:  but  my  word 
shall  not  pass  away.     CREDO. 

OFFERTORY.  Ps.  xxiv.— To  thee  have  I  raised 
xip  my  soul ;  O  my  God,  in  thee  1  put  my  trust,  let 
me  not  be  put  to  shame:  neither  let  my  enemies 
scoff  at  me ;  for  none  shall  be  disappointed  who 
wait  for  thee. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  Lord,  that  these  sacred 
mysteries  may  cleanse  us  by  their  powerful  virtue, 
and  bring  us  with  greater  purity  to  him,  who  was 
the  author  and  institutor  of  them.  Thro'. 

1L  SECRET.  Strengthen,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  in  our  souls,  the  mysteries  of  the  true  faith  : 
that  we  who  confess  him,  that  was  conceived  of  a 
Virgin,  to  be  true  God,  and  true  man,  may,  by 
the  power  of  his  saving  resurrection,  deserve  to 
come  to  eternal  joys.  Thro'  the  same,  &c. 

ill.  SECRET.  Protect  us,  O  Lord,  while  we 
assist  at  thy  sacred  mysteries,  that  being  employed 
in  acts  of  religion,  we  may  serve  thee  both  in  body 
and  mind  Thro'. 

Instead  of  the  last,  may  be  said  the  following. 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  with  the  offer, 
ing  we  have  made,  and  cease  not  to  protect  thy 
servant  N.  whom  thou  hast  been  pleased  to  appoint 
Pastor  over  thy  Church.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixxxiv. — The  Lord  will  give  his  kind 
blessing,  and  our  land  shall  yield  its  fruit. 

P,  COMM.  Suscipiamus. — May  we  receive,  O 
Lord,  thy  me^cy  in  the  midst  of  thy  temple,  that 
with  due  honour  we  may  prepare  for  the  approach, 
ing  solemnity  of  our  reparation.  Thro'. 

11.  P  COMM.  Gratiam  tuam. — Pour  forth,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  thy  grace  into  our  hearts, 
that  we,  who,  by  the  message  of  an  angel,  have 
known  the  incarnation  of  thy  Son,  the  Christ,  may 
by  his  passion  and  cross,  come  to  the  glory  of  his 
resurrection.  Thro'. 


IN  ADVENT.  53 

111.  P.  COMM.  Qutfsumus.—We  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  not  to  leave  exposed  10  the  dan- 
gers of  human  life,  those  whom  thou  hast  permitted 
to  partake  of  those  divine  mysteries.  Thro'. 

Instead  of  the  last,  may  be  said  the  following. 
P.  COMM  M-IV  the  participation  of  this  divine 
sacrament  protect  us,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord : 
and  a' ways  procure  safety  and  defence  to  thy  servant 
N.  whom  thou  hast  -p;  ointed  Pastor  over  thy 
Church,  together  with  the  flock  committed  to  his 
charge.  Thro' 

Imteaa  o>  itt,  missa  est,  is  said,  Benedicamus  Do- 
mino: which  rule  is  always  to  be  observed  when  the 
Gloria  in  excelsis  is  omitted. 

On    the  week  days  in  Advent,  the  Mass  of  the  fore* 
going  Sunday  is  said,  unless  there  be  a  proper  Mass 
for  the  day,   but  the  Alleluias  and  V.Jollowing  the  • 
Gradual  are  omitted. 

SECOND  SUNDAY  IN  ADVENT.    ' 
INTROIT.     Is.  xxx. 

PEople   of  Sion,    be-      pOpulus  Sion,  ecceDo- 
hold  the  Lord  will  minus  veniet  ad  sal- 

come   to  save  the  Gen-     vandas  Gentes  :  et  audi- 
tiles  :  and  the  Lord  will"    tamfaciet  Dominus  glori* 
make    the  glory   of  his    am   vocis  sues    in  l&titia 
voice  heard  to  the  joy  of    cordis  vestri.    Ps.  79.  Qui 
your    hearts.       Ps.    79.     regis  Israel  intends:  gui 
Thou  who  nil  est  Israel,     deducts  velut   ovem,     Jb- 
hearken:  thou  who  lead.     seph.     V.Gloria* 
est   Joseph  like  a  sheep. 
F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Excita,  Pornine.— Stir  up,  OLord, 
our  hearts  to  prepare  the  ways  of  thy  only  begotten 
Son  :  that  by  his  coming  we  may  be  enabled  to  serve 
thee  with  pure  minds.  Who  liveth. 

For  the  U,  and  III.  Collects,  see  the  first  Sunday, 
page  50. 


54  SECOND  SUNDAY 

EPISTLE.     Horn.  xv.  4.  13.     Brethren:    What 
things  soever  have  been  wrote,  were  written  for  our 
instruction,  that  by  patience  and  the  comfort  of  the 
scriptures  we  might  have  hope.     Now  the  God  of 
patience  and  comfort  grant  you  to  be  of  one  mind 
one  towards  another,    according  to  Jesus  Christ  j 
that  with  one  mind  and  with  one  mouth  you  may 
glorify  God  and  the  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
Wherefore  receive  one  another,  as  Christ  also  hath 
received  you  to  the  honour  of  God.  For  I  say  that 
Jesus  was  minister  of  the  circumcision  for  the  truth 
of  G6d,  to  confirm  the  promises  made  to  the  Fathers. 
But  that  the  Gentiles  are  to  glorify  God  for  his  mer- 
cy, as  it  is  written:    "  Therefore  I  will  confess  to 
thee,  O  Lord,  among  the  Gentiles,  and  will  sing  to 
thy  name."     And  again:  the  same  prophet  saith  : 
"  Rejoice,  ye  Gentiles,   with  his  people."    And 
again  :  "  Praise  the  Lord,  all  ye  Gentiles,  and  magnify 
him.all  ye  people."  And  again  Isaiah  saith :  "  There 
shall  be  a  root  of  Jesse,  and  he  that  shall  rise  up  to 
rule  the  Gentiles,  in  him  the  Gentiles  shall  hope." 
Now  the  God  of  Mope  fill  you  with  all  joy  and  peace 
in  believing,  that  you  may  abound  in  hope,  and  in 
the  power  of  the  lloly  Ghost. 

GR  AD.  Ps.  xlix. — He  shall  come  in  his  comeli- 
ness and  beauty  from  Sion  j  God  will  come  visibly. 
V.  Gather  to  him  his  saints,  who  have  observed  his 
covenant  more  than  sacrifice.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  I  rejoiced  at  what  V.  L&tatus  sum  in  his 
was  told  me  :  w  j  are  to  qua  dicta  sunt  mihi :  in 
go  up  to  the  house  of  the  domum  Domini  ibimus. 
Lord.  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

<f?0#peU  Matt.  xi.  2.  io.— At  that  time: 
When  John  had  heard  in  prison  the  works  of 
Christ,  sending  two  of  his  disciples  he  said  to  him  : 
Art  thou  he  that  art  to  come,  or  do  we  look  for  ano- 
ther? And  Jesus  making  answer,  said  to  them  ;  Go 
and  reUte  to  John  what  you  have  heard  and  seen. 


IN  ADVENT.  55 

The  blind  see,  the  lame  walk,  the  lepers  are  cleans- 
ed,  the  deaf  hear,  the  dead  rise  again,  the  poor  have 
the  gospel  preached  to  them.  And  blessed  is  he  that 
shall  not  be  scandalized  in  me.  And  when  they 
went  their  way,  Jesus  began  to  say  to  the  multitude, 
concerning  John  :  What  went  you  out  into  the  de- 
sert to  see  ?  A  reed  shaken  with  the  wind  ?  But  what 
went  you  out  to  see  ?  A  man  cloathed  in  soft  gar- 
ments? BehoVl,  they  that  are  cloathed  in  soft  gar- 
ments  are  in  the  houses  of  kings.  But  what  went 
you  out  to  see?  A  prophet?  Yea,  f  tell  you,  and 
more  than  a  prophet.  For  this  is  he  of  whom  it  is 
written:  *'  Behold,  I  send  my  angel  before  thy  face, 
who  shall  prepare  thy  way  before  thee."  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Turning  to  us,  O  God,  thou  wilt  re- 
store  us  to  life,  and  thy  people  shall  rejoice  in  thee. 
Shew  us,  O  Lord,  thy  mercy,  and  grant  us  thy  sal- 
vation, 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  by  our  humble  prayers  and  sacrifices ;  and 
altho1  we  can  alledge  no  deserts  on  our  part,  grant 
us  thy  protection.  Thro'. 

For  the  If.  and  1 1  [•  Secrets,  seep.  $2. 

COMM.  Arise,  O  Jerusalem,  and  stand  on  high, 
and  see  the  joy  that  will  come  to  thee  from  tay 
God. 

P.  COMM.   Repleti.— Being  filled,  O  Lord,  with 
this  spiritual  food,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  to  teach 
us,  by  partaking  of  this  mystery,  to  despise  earthly 
things,  and  to  love  such  as  are  heavenly. 
1'orthe  11.  and  III.  Postcommunions,  sec  p.  52,  53. 

THIRD  SUNDAY  IN  ADVENT. 
hNTROlT.     Philip  iv.  and  Ps.  Ixxxiv. 

REJOICE  in  the  Lord     fAudcte     in      Domino 
always;     again    I     ^semper;  iterum  dico, 
say,     rejoice:    let    your    gaudete:  modest ia   vestra 
modesty  be  known  to  all     nota  sit  omnibus 


j6  THIRD  SUNDAY 

men:    for  the  Lord  is  at     bus :  Dominus  enim  props 
hand  :  be  solicitous  about     cst  :    nihil   soliciti   sitis  : 
nothing  :  but    on    every     sed  in  omni  oratione  peti- 
occasion  let  your  petiti-     tiones  vestrte  innotescant 
or.s  be  made  known  to     apud  Deum.     Ps.  Bene- 
God  by  prayer.  Ps.Thou,     dixisti,    Domine,    terrain 
O    Lord,  bast  blest  tby     tua?n,  avertisti  captivita- 
land,  thou  bast  brought     tern  Jacob.     V.  Gloria. 
back  the  captive  children 
of  Jacob.     V  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Aurem  tuam. — Bend  thine  ear,  O 
Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  to  our  prayers,  and  enlight- 
en the  darkness  of  our  minds  by  the  grace  of  thy  vi- 
sitation. Who  livest. 

For  the  rest  of  the  Collects  see  p.  50. 

EPISTLE.  Philip,  iv.  4.  7.— Brethren  ;  Rejoice 
in  the  Lord  always;  again  I  say,  rejoice.  Let  your 
modesty  be  known  to  all  men:  the  Lord  is  nigh. 
Be  nothing  solicitous  :  but  in  every  thing  by  prayer 
and  supplication  with  thanksgiving,  let  your  re- 
quests be  made  known  to  God.  And  the  peace  of 
God,  which  surpasseth  all  understanding,  keep  your 
hearts  and  minds  in  Jesus  Christ. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxxix. — Lord,  who  sittest  on  the 
Cherubim,  exert  thy  power,  and  come.  V.  Thou, 
•who  rulest  Israel,  hearken;  thou  who  leadest  Joseph 
as  a  sheep.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Exert,  O  Lord,  thy  V.  Excita,  Domine, 
power,  and  come  to  save  potcntiam  tuam,  et  veni  : 
us.  Alleluia.  ut  salvos  facias  nos.  Al- 

leluia. 

050#p£L  John  i.  19.  28.— At  that  time:  The 
Jews  sent  fromjemsalem  Priests  and  Levites  to  John, 
to  ask  him  :  Who  art  thou  ?  And  he  confessed,  and 
did  not  deny:  and  he  confessed:  I  am  not  the 
Christ.  And  they  asked  him  :  What  then  ?  Art 
thou  Elias?  And  he  said;  I  am  not.  Art  thou  a 


IN  ADVENT.  57 

prophet  ?  And  he  answered  :  No.  Then  they  said 
to  him  ;  Who  art  thou,  that  we  may  give  an  answer 
to  them  that  sent  us?  What  sayest  thou  of  thyself? 
lie  said  :  "  I  am  the  voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wil- 
derness, Make  straight  the  way  of  the  Lord,"  as  said 
the  prophet  Isaias.  And  they  that  were  sent  were 
of  the  pharisees.  And  they  asked  him  and  said  to 
him  :  Why  then  dost  thou  baptize,  if  thou  be  not 
Christ,  norElias,  nor  the  prophet?  John  answered 
them,  saying:  I  baptize  with  water;  but  there  hath 
stood  one  in  the  midst  of  you,  whom  you  know 
not.  The  same  is  he  that  shall  come  after  me,  who  is 
preferred  before  me ,  the  latchet  of  whose  shoe  I  ain 
not  worthy  to  loose.  These  things  were  done  in 
Bethania  beyond  the  Jordan,  where  John  was  bap- 
tizinej.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxxiv.— Thou  hast  blessed,  O 
Lord,  thy  land  ;  thou  hast  brought  back  the  captive 
children  of  Jacob  5  thou  hast  pardoned  the  iniquity 
of  thy  people. 

SECRET.  May  we  always,  O  Lord,  offer  thec 
this  sacrifice  of  our  devotion,  both  to  comply  with 
the  institution  of  these  sacred  mysteries,  and  won- 
derfully to  procure  ourselves  that  salvation  which 
thou  designest  us.  Thro1 

For  the.  rest  of  the  Secrets  see  £.52. 

COMM  Is*  xxxv. — Say,  be  comforted,  O  ye 
fearful  of  heart>  and  fear  not;  behold  our  God  will 
come  and  save  us. 

P.  COMM.  Imploramus. — We  implore,  OLord, 
thy  mercy,  that  these  divine  helps  having  cleansed  us 
from  sin,  may  prepare  us  for  the  ensuing  solemnity, 

For  the  rest  of  the  Postcommunions  see  pt  $z  and 
S3- 


5S  WEDNESDAY 

QUATUOR  TEMPORA,  OR  EMBER-DAYS. 

HpHE  Ember-days,  (fo  called  from  our  forefathers' faft- 
JL  ing  on  thofe  days  in  fackcloth  and  allies,  or  from  their 
eating  nothing  but  cakes  baked  under  the  embers,)  are  the 
Wednefday,  Friday,  and  Saturday  of  the  firft  week  of 
Lent,  of  Whitfun-week,  of  the  third  week  in  Septem- 
ber, and  of  the  third  week  in  Advent.  The  fpirit  of 
the  Church  is,  to  engage  her  children  at  thefe  ftated 
times  to  pray,  faft,  and  perform  such  other  good  works 
as  may  prevail  with  God  to  furnim  his  Church  with  good 
paftors ;  Saturday  in  Ember-week  being  the  appointed 
day  for  ordaining  and  confecrating  perfons  to  the  facred 
nuniftry.  We  are  likewife  to  beg  God's  blefling  on  the 
fruits  of  the  earth,  and  give  him  thanks  for  thofe  we  have 
already  received. 

WEDNESDAY  IN  EMBER  WEEK. 
INTROIT.     Is.  lv.  Ps.  xviii. 

DROP  down  dew,  O  ye  heavens,  from  above, 
and  let  the  clouds  rain  down  the  just  one ;  let 
the  earth  be  opened  and  bring  forth  a  Saviour. 
Ps.  The  heavens  publish  the  glory  of  God;  and  the 
firmament  declareth  the  works  of  his  hands.  V. 
Glory. 

After  Kyrie  eleison,  'is  said,  Let  us  pray. 

Let  us  kneel  down*.  Fiectamus  genua. 

R.  Stand  up  again.  R.  Levate, 

COLLECT.  Prussia  ^wtfsMwws,— -  Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  approaching 
solemnity  of  our  redemption  may  afford  us  the  suc- 
cours of  this  present  life,  and  heap  on  us  the  rewards 
of"  eternal  happiness.  Thro1. 

I.  LESSON.  Is.  ii.  2.  5. — In  those  days  the  prophet 
Isaiah  said ;  In  the  last  days,  the  mountain  of  the 
house  of  the  Lord  shall  be  prepared  on  the  top  of 

*  Atfolemn  Mattes  this  is  fung  by  the  Deacon  ;  when 
all  kneel,  till  the  Subdeacon,  after  a  little  paufc,  bids 
them  fiand  up  again  to  join  with  the  Prieft  whilft  he  fays 
the  Colleft. 


IN  EMEEE-WEEK.  59 

the  mountains,  and  it  shall  be  exalted  above  the 
hills;  and  all  nations  shall  flow  unto  it.  And  many 
people  shall  go,  and  say  :  Come  and  let  us  go  up 
to  the  mountain  of  the  Lord,  and  to  the  house  ot  the 
God  of  Jacob,  and  he  will  teach  us  his  ways,  and  we 
\vill  walk  in  his  paths;  for  the  law  shall  come  iortli 
from  Sion,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord  from  Jerusa- 
lem. And  he  shall  judge  the  Gentiles,  and  rebuke 
many  people;  and  they  shall  turn  their  swords  into 
plow-shares,  and  their  spears  into  sides;  nation 
shall  not  lift  up  sword  against  nation,. neither  shall 
they  be  exercised  any  more  to  war.  O  house  of  Ja- 
cob, come  ye,  and  let  us  walk  in  the  light  of  the 
Lord. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  xxiii.— Lift  up  your  gates,  O 
you  princes  ;  and  be  you  lifted  up,  O  eternal  gates, 
and  the  King  of  Glory  shall  enter  in.  VV  ho  shall  go 
up  to  the  mountain  of  the  Lord  ;  or  who  shall  abide 
in  his  sanctuary  ?  The  man  whose  hands  are  inno- 
cent,  and  whose  heart  is  clean. 

The  Lord  be  with  you.    R.  And  with  tby  spirit. 

COLLECT.  Fcstina.— Make  haste,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  and  delay  not ;  but  grant  us  the  as- 
sistance of  thy  heavenly  grace;  that  they  who  trust 
in  thy  goodness,  may  be  relieved  by  the  comiort  ot 
thy  coming,  \\holivest. 
Here  are  said  the  other  Collects,  as  directed,  p>  50. 

II.  LESSON.  Is.vii.  10,  16.— -In  those  days  :  The 
Lord  spoke  unto  Achaz,  saying:  Ask  thee  a  sign  of 
the  Lord  thy  God,  either  unto  the  depth  of  hell,  or 
unto  the  height  above.  And  Achaz  said  ;  I  will  not 
ask,  and  I  will  not  tempt  the  Lord.  And  he  said  ; 
Hear  ye,  therefore,  O  house  of  David;  Is  it  a  small 
thing  for  you,  to  be  grievous  to  men,  that  you  are 
grievous  to  my  God  also  ?  Therefore  the  Lord  him- 
self shall  give  you  a  sign.  Behold  a  Virgin  shall  con- 
ceive and  bear  a  son.  and  his  name  shall  be  called 


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Emmanuel.     He  shall  eat  butter  and  honey,  that  he 
may  know  to  refuse  evil,  and  to  chnse  good. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  cxliv.— The  Lord  is  near  all 
those  that  call  upon  him,  all  that  call  upon  him  in 
truth.  V.  My  month  shall  declare  the  praise  of  the 
Lord,  and  let  all  flesh  bless  his  holy  name. 

ti£>0£pCU     Luke  I  26.  3%.--At  that  time  :  The 
angel  Gabriel  was  sent  from  God  into  a  city  of  Ga- 
lilee called   Nazareth,  to   a  virgin  espoused  to   a 
man  whose  name  was    Joseph,    of  the  house  of 
David  ;    and   the  Virgin's  name  was  Mary.     And 
the  angel,  being  come  in,  said  to  her;  Hail  full  of 
grace,  the  Lord  is  with  thee;  blessed  art  thou  among 
women.    And  when  she  had  heard,  she  was  troub- 
led at  his  saying,  and  thought  with  herself  what 
manner  of  sanitation  this  should  be.     And  the  angei 
said  to  her  ;  Fear  not,  Mary,  for  thou  hast  found 
grace  with  God.    Behold  tho^j  shalt  conceive  in  thy 
womb,  and  shalt  bring  forth  a  son  ;   and  thou  shalt 
call   his  name  Jesus.     He  shall  be  great,  and  shall 
be  called  the  Son  of  the  Most  High,  and  the  Lord 
God  shall  give  unto  him  the  throne  of  David  his  fa- 
ther :  and  he  shall   reign  in  the  house  of  Jacob   for 
ever,  and  of  his  kingdom  there  shall  be  no  end.  And 
Mary  said  to  the  Angel ;  How  shall  this  be  done,be- 
cause  I  know  not  man  ?     And  the  angel  answering, 
said  to  her ;  The  Holy  Ghost  shall  come  upon  thee, 
and  the  power  of  the  Most  High  shall    oversha- 
dow thee.     And  therefore  also  the  Holy  one  which 
shall  be  born  of  thee,  shall  be  called  the  Son  of 
God.     And  behold  thy  cousin  Elizabeth  she  hath 
also  conceived  a  son  in  her  old  age;  and  this  is  the 
sixth  month  with  her  that  is  called  barren  ;  because 
•    no  word  shall  be  impossible  with  God.     And  Mary 
said:  Behold  the  handmaid  of  the  Lord,  be  it  done 
unto  me  according  to  thy  word. 
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now  fear  not ;  for  behold  our  God  will  do  justice; 
he  will  come  himself,  and  save  us. 

SECRET.  Let  our  fasts,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  be  acceptable  to  thee,  that  by  atoning  for  our 
sins,  they  may  both  make  us  worthy  of  thy  grace, 
and  bring  us  to  the  everlasting  effects  of  thy  pro* 
inises.  Thro', 

COMM.  h.  vii. — Behold,  a  Virgin  shall  conceive 
and  bring  forth  a  80113  and  his  name  shall  be  called 
Emmanuel, 

P.  COMM.  Span's.— Being  filled,  O  Lord, 
by  the  participation  of  thy  saving  mysteries,  we 
humbly  beseech  thee,  that  as  we  rejoice  in  the 
taste  thereof,  we  may  be  renewed  by  their  effects. 
Thro'. 

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JNTR01T.    P*  cxviii. 

THOU  art  at  hand,  O  Lord,  and  all  thy  ways 
are  truth  ;  in  the  beginning  I  knew  from  thy 
law,  that  thou  art  for  ever.  Ps.  Blessed  are  the  un- 
deftied  in  the  way ;  who  walk  in  the  law  of  the 
Lord.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Excita,  quasumus. — Exert,  OLord, 
we  beseech  thee,  thy  power,  and  come  ;  that  they 
who  trust  in  thy  goodness,  may  speedily  be  delivered 
from  all  adversity.  Who  livest. 

LESSON.  7s.  xi.  i.  5.— Thus  salt h  the  Lord  God  ; 
And  there  shall  come  forth  a  rod  out  of  the  root  of 
Jesse,  and  a  flower  shall  rise  up  out  of  his  root. 
And  the  spirit  of  the  Lord  shall  rest  upon  him  ;  the 
spirit  of  wisdom,  and  of  understanding  ;  the  spirit  of 
counsel,  and  of  fortitude;  the  spirit  of  knowledge, 
and  of  godliness  j  and  he  shall  be  filled  with  the  spi- 
rit of  the  fear  of  the  Lord.  He  shall  not  judge  ac- 
r.ordmg  to  thesight  of  the  eyes,  nor  reprove  according 
to  the  hearing  of  the  ears.  But  he  shall  judge  the 
poor  wilh  justice,  and  shall  reprove  with  equity  for 
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the  meek  of  the  earth  ;  and  he  shall  strike  the  earth 
\yith  the  rod  of  his  mouth,  and  with  the  breatb  of  his 
lips  he  shall  slay  the  wicked.  And  justice  shall  be 
the  girdle  of  his  loins  ;  and  faith  the  girdle  of  his 
reins. 

GRADUAL*  Ps.  Ixxxiv.—  Shew  us,  O  Lord,  thy 
mercy,  and  grant  us  thy  salvation.  V.  Thou  hast 
blessed,  O  Lord,  thy  land  ;  thou  hast  brought  back 
the  captive  children  of  Jacob. 


Luke  i.  39.  47.—  At  that  time  ;  Mary 
rising  up  in  those  days,  went  into  the  hill  country 
with  haste,  into  a  city  of  Juda.  And  she  entered 
into  the  house  of  Zachary,  and  saluted  Elizabeth. 
And  it  came  to  pass,  that  when  Elizabeth  heard  the 
salutation  of  Mary,  the  infant  leaped  in  her  womb  , 
and  Elizabeth  was  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost.  And 
she  cried  out  with  a  loud  voice,  and  said  ;  Blessed 
art  thou  among  women,  and  blessed  is  the  fruit  of 
thy  womb.  And  whence  is  this  to  me,  that  the 
mother  of  my  Lord  should  come  to  me  ?  For  be- 
hold, as  soon  as  the  voice  of  thy  salutation  sounded 
in  my  ears,  the  infant  in  my  womb  leaped  for  joy, 
And  blessed  art  thou  that  hast  believed,  because 
those  things  shall  be  accomplished  that  were  spoken 
to  thee  by  the  Lord.  And  Mary  said;  M)r  soul 
doth  magnify  the  Lord  ;  and  my  spirit  hath  rejoiced 
in  God  my  Saviour. 

OFFERTORY.  Ps.  Ixxxiir.—  Turning  to  us,  O 
God,  thou  wilt  restore  us  to  life,  and  thy  people 
shall  rejoice  in  thee.  Shew  us,  O  Lord,  thy  mercy, 
and  grant  us  thy  salvation. 

SECRET.  Having  received,  O  Lord,  our  offer- 
ings and  prayers,  cleanse  us,  we  beseech  thee,  by 
these  heavenly  mysteries,  and  mercifully  hear  us. 

COM\I.  Zach.  xiv.—  Behold,  the  Lord  will  come, 
aid  all  his  saints  with  him;  and  in  that  day  there 
shall  be  a  great  light, 


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P.  COMM,  Tui  nos.— May  the  receiving,  O 
Lord,  of  thy  sacrament,  give  us  a  new  lite,  that  by 
putting  a<ide  the  old  man,  it  may  bring  us  to  the 
participation  of  this  saving  mystery.  Thro*. 

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INTROIT.     Ps.  Ixxix. 

COME,  and  shew  us  thy   faith,  O  Lord,  who 
sittest  on  the  Cherubim  ;  and  we  shall  be  saved. 
Ps.  Thou  who  rulest  Israel,  hearken  j  who  leadest 
Joseph  as  a  sheep.     V.  Glory. 

After  the  Kyrie  eleison,  is  said ; 
Let  us  pray',  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 
I.  COLLECT.  DCMS,  qui  conspicis. — O  God, 
who  seest  us  afflicted  through  our  own  wickedness ; 
mercifully  grant,  that  by  thy  coming  we  may  be 
comforted.  Who  livest. 

I.  LESSON.     -L.    xix.    20.   22.— In  those   dam  ; 
They  shall  cry  to  the  Lord  because  of  the  oppressor, 
and  he  shall  send  them  a  Saviour,  and  a  defender 
to  deliver  them.     And  the  Lord  shall  be  known* by 
Egypt,  and  the  Egyptians  shall  know  the  Lord  in 
that  day,  and  shall  worship   him  with  sacrifices  and 
offerings ;  and  they  shall  make  vows  to  the  Lord, 
and  perform  them.  And  the  Lord  shall  strike  Egypt 
with  a  scourge,  and  shall  heal  it,  and  they  shall  re- 
turn  to  the  Lord,  and  he  shall  be  pacified  towards 
them,  and  heal  them* 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  xviii. — His  setting  out  is  from 
one  extremity  of  the  heavens,  and  his  course  is  to 
the  other.  V.  The  heavens  publish  the  glory  of  God, 
and  the  firmament  declareth  the  works  of  his  hands. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  a<j;ain. 

II.  COLLECT.     Concede  quti'sunms. — Grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,   that  we  who  groan 
under  the  old  captivity  of  sin,   may  be  freed  by  the 
new  birth  of  thy  only  Son,  which  we  are  preparing 
for.     Who  lived). 


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H.  LESSON.  Is.  xxxv.  i.  j.—Thus  saith  the 
Lord:  The  land  that  was  desolate  and  impassable 
shall  be  glad,  and  the  wilderness  shall  rejoice,  and 
shall  flourish  like  the  lily.  It  shall  bud  forth,  ar^l 
blossom,  and  shall  rejoice  with  joy  and  praise  :  the 
glory  of  Libanus  is  given  to  it,  the  beauty  of  Carmel 
and  Saron,  they  shall  seethe  glory  of  the  Lord,  and 
the  beauty  of  our  God.  Strengthen  ye  the  feehle 
hands,  and  confirm  the  weak  knees.  Say  to  the 
faint  hearted :  Take  courage,  and  fear  not ;  behold 
your  God  will  bring  the  revenge  of  recompence; 
God  himself  will  come  and  will  save  you.  Then 
shall  the  eves  of  the  blind  be  opened,  and  the  ears 
of  the  deaf  shall  be  unstopped.  Then  shall  the  lame 
man  leap  as  a  hart,  and  the  tongue  of  the  dumb 
shall  be  free  :  for  waters  are  broken  out  in  the  de- 
sart,  and  streams  in  the  wilderness.  And  that 
which  was  dry  land,  shall  become  a  pool,  and  the 
thirsty  land  springs  of  water,  saith  the  Lord  Al» 
mighty. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  xviii.— He  hath  placed  his 
tent  in  the  sun,  and  is  like  a  bridegroom  coming 
out  of  his  nuptial  chamber.  V.  His  setting  out  is 
from  one  extremity  of  the  heavens,  and  his  course  is 
to  the  other. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

III.  COLLECT.  Indignos  nos.— Comfort  us,  O 
Lord,  thy  unworthy  servants,  who  lie  dejected  under 
the  horror  of  our  crimes,  by  the  coming  of  thy  only 
Son.  Who  hveth. 

III.  LESSON.  If.  xl.  9.  n.  —  Thus  saith  the 
Lord;  Ger  thee  up  upon  a  high  mountain,  thpu 
that  bringest  good  tidings  to  Sion  :  lift  up  thy  voice 
•with  strength,  thou  that  bringest  good  tidings  to 
Jerusalem  :  lift  it  up,  fear  not.  Say  to  the  cities  of 
Juda;  Behold  your  Godt  behold  the  Lord  God 
shall  come  with  strength,  and  his  arm  shall  rule; 
behold  his  reward  is  with  him,  and  his  work  is  be- 


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fore  him*  He  shall  feed  his  flock  like  a  shepherd ; 
he  shall  gather  together  the  lambs  with  his  arm,  and 
shall  take  them  up  in  his  hosom. 

GRADUAL.  Pa.  Ixxix.— Lord  God  of  Hosts, 
bring  us  back;  shew  thy  face,  and  we  shall  be 
saved.  V.  Exert  thy  power,  O  Lord,  and  come  to 
save  us. 

Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 
IV.  COLLECT.  Prasta9qu&sumus* — Grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  approach- 
ing  solemnity  of  thy  Son's  birth  may  afford  us  the 
remedies  of  this  present  life,  and  obtain  for  us  the 
rewards  of  eternal  happiness,  Thro*  the  same. 

IV.  LESSON.     Is.  xlv.    i.  9.— Thus  saith  the 
Lord  to  my  anointed  Cyrus,  whose  right  hand  I 
have  taken  hold  of,  to  subdue  nations  before  his 
face,  and  to  turn  the  backs  of  kings,  and  to  open 
the  doors  before  him,  and  the  gates  shall  not  be  shut. 
I  will  go  before  thee,  and  will  humble  the  great 
ones  of  the  earth :  I  will  break  in  pieces  the  gates  of 
brass,  and  will  burst  the  bars  of  iron.     Andl'will 
give  thee  hidden  treasures,  and  the  concealed  riches 
of  secret  places;  that  thou  mayest  know  tint  1  am 
the  Lord  who  call  thee  by  thy  name,  the  God  of 
Israel.     For  the  sake  of  my  servant  Jacob,  and  Is- 
rael my  elect,  I  have  even  called  thee  by  thy  name ; 
I  have  made  a  likeness  of  thee,  and  thou  hast  not 
known  me.     I  am  the  Lord,  and  there  is  none  else; 
there  is  no  God  besides  me :  1  girded  thee,  and  thou 
hast  not  known  me;  that  they  may  know  who  are 
from  the  rising  of  the  sun,  and  they  who  are  from 
the  west,  that  there  is  none  beside  me.     1  am   the 
Lord,  and  there  is  none  else,  I  form  the  light,  and 
create    darkness,  I  make    peace,   and  create  evil: 
1  the  Lord  that  do  all  these  tilings.     Drop  down 
dew,  ye  heavens,  from  above,  and  let  the  clouds 
rain  the  just:  let  the  earth  be  opened,  and  bud 


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forth  a  saviour;  and  let  justice  spring  up  together: 
I  the  Lord  have  created  him. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  Ixxix.— Exert,  O  Lord,  thy 
power,  and  come  to  save  us.  Hearken,  O  Ruler  of 
Israel,  who  leadest  Joseph  like  a  sheep ;  thou  who 
sittest  on  the  Cherubim,  shew  thyself  to  Ephraim, 
Benjamin",  and  Manasse. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

V.  COLLECT.  Preces populi.— Mercifully  hear, 
OLord,  we  beseech  thee,  the  prayers  of  thy  peo- 
ple ;  that  we,  who  are  justly  afflicted  for  our  sins, 
may  receive  comfort  from  thy  kind  visit.  Who 
livest. 

V.  LESSON.  Dan.  iii.  49.— J/t  those  days: 
The  angel  of  the  Lord  went  down  with  Azarias,  and 
his  companions  into  the  furnace;  and  he  drove  the 
flame  of  the  fire  out  of  the  furnace,  and  made  the 
midst  of  the  furnace  like  the  blowing  of  a  wind 
bringing  dew,  and  the  fire  touched  them  not  at 
all,  nor  troubled  them,  nor  did  them  any  harm. 
Then  these  three,  as  with  one  mouth,  praised  and 
glorified,  and  blessed  God  in  the  furnace,  saying; 
CANTICLE. 

Blessed  art  thou,  OLord,  the  God  of  our  fore- 
fathers ;  and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

And  blessed  is  the  name  of  thy  glory,  which  is 
holy  ;  and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

Blessed  art  thou  in  the  holy  temple  of  thy  glory; 
and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

Blessed  art  thou  upon  the  sacred  throne  of  thy 
kingdom;  and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for 
ever. 

Blessed  art  thou,  leaning  on  the  sceptre  of  thy  di. 
vinity  :  and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

Blessed  art  thou,  who  sittest  on  the  Cherubim, 
beholding  the  deep  :  and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory 
for  ever. 

Blessed  art  thou  who  walkest  on  the  wings  of 


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the  winds,  and  on  the  waves  of  the  sea  :  and  worthy 
of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

May  ali  the  angels  and  thy  holy  ones  bless  thee: 
may  they  praise  and  glorify  thee  for  ever. 

May  the  heavens,  earth,  sea,  and  all  therein  bless 
thee  :  may  they  praise  and  glorify  thee  for  ever. 

Glory  be  to  the  Father,  and  to  the  Son,  and  to 
the  Holy  Ghost ;  who  is  worthy  of  praise  and  glory 
for  ever. 

As  it  was  in  the  beginning,  now  is,  and  evermore 
shall  be,  world  without  end.  Amen.  Who  is 
worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

Blessed  art  thou,  O  Lord,  the  God  of  our  fore- 
fathers, and  worthy  of  praise  and  glory  for  ever. 

The  Lord  be  with  you.  R.  And  with  thy 
spirit. 

VI,  COLLECT.  Dfw,s  qui  tribu*.—O  God,who, 
in  behalf  of  the  three  young  men,  didst  render 
harmless  the  flames  of  fire:  mercifully  grant,  that 
we  thy  servants  may  not  be  burnt  by  the  flames  of 
vice.  Thro*. 

Here  are  said  tin'  other  Collects,  as  directed,  p.  50. 

EPISTLE.  2  T/uss.  \\.  i.  8.—  brethren  :  We  be- 
seech you,  by  the  coming  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
and  of  our  gathering  together  unto  him  •,  that  you 
be  not  easily  moved  from  your  mind,  nor  be  fright- 
ed, neither  by  spirit,  nor  by  word,  nor  by  epistle, 
as  sent  from  us,  as  if  the  day  of  the  Lord  were  at 
band.  Let.  no  man  deceive  you  by  any  means:  for 
unless  there  come  a  revolt  first,  and  the  man  of  sin 
be  revealed,  the  son  of  perdition,  who  opposeth,  and 
is  lifted  up  above  all  that  is  called  God,  or  that  is 
worshipped,  so  that  he  sitteth  in  the  temple  of  God, 
shewing  himself  as  if  he  were  God.  Remember  you 
not,  that  when  I  was  yet  with  you  1  told  you  tin  se 
things?  And  now  you  know  what  \vithholdeth,  that 
he  may  be  revealed  in  his  time.  For  the  mystery 
of  iniquity  already  worketh ;  only  that  he  who  now 


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holdeth,  do  hold,  until  he  be  taken  out  of  the  way, 
and  then  that  wicked  one  shall  be  revealed,  whom 
the  Lori  Jesus  shall  kill  with  the  spirit  of  his  mouth; 
and  shall  destroy  wjth  the  brightness  of  his  coming. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  Ixxix.— Thou,  who  rulest  Is- 
rael, hearken  :  thou  who  leadest  Joseph  as  a  sheep. 
V.  Thou  who  sittest  on  the  Cherubim,  shew  thy. 
self  to  Ephraim,  Benjamin,  and  Manasse.  V,  Ex- 
ert thy  power,  O  Lord,  and  come  to  save  us. 
C£>0#ptU  Luke  iii.  as  in  the  next  p.  69. 

OFFERTORY.  Rejoice  exceedingly,  O  daugh* 
ter  of  Sion,  publish  it,  O  daughter  of  Jerusalem : 
behold  thy  King  and  Saviour  cometh  to  thee. 

SECRET.  Hear  us,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
and,  being  appeased  by  these  offerings,  grant  they 
may  increase  our  devotion,  and  advance  our  salva- 
tion. Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xviii. — He  sprung  up  like  a  giant 
to  run  his  course:  his  setting  is  from  one  extremity 
of  the  heavens,  and  his  course  is  to  the  other. 

P.  COMM  QiKEsumus. — We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord  our  God,  that  thou  wouldst  make  these  sacred 
mysteries,  which  thou  hast  given  us,  strengthen  in 
us  the  effects  of  our  reparation,  and  be  a  remedy  to 
us,  both  now  and  hereafter.  Thro'. 

FOURTH  SUNDAY  IN  ADVENT. 
INTROIT.     Is.  Iv.     Ps.  xviii. 

TYROP  doWii  dew,    ye  T>0rate  call  desuper,  et 

•*-*  heavens;  and  let  the  "fiutef  pluant  just  urn  ; 

clouds  rain  down  the  just  aperiatur  terra,    et  ger- 

one:  let  the  earth  open  minet  Sahatorem.  Ps.  18. 

and  bud  forth  a  Saviour.  Cadi    enarrant     gloriam 

Ps. The  heavens  publish  Dei;  et    opera    manuum 

the  glory  of  God :    and  ejus  annuntiat  jirmamen* 

the  firmament  declareth  turn.  V.Gloria* 

the  works  of  his  hands.  .  Glory. 


IN  ADVENT.  69 

COLLECT.  Excita  9*<fswHitf«^-*Exert,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Lord,  thy  power,  and  come ;  and 
succour  us  by  thy  great  might:  that  by  the  assistance 
of  thy  grace,  thy  indulgent'mercy  may  hasten,  vrhat 
is  delayed  by  our  sins.  Who  livest. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  iv.  i — Brethren ;  Let  a  man  so 
account  of  us  as  of  the  ministers  of  Christ,  and  the 
dispensers  of  the  mysteries  of  God.  Here  now  it  is  re- 
quired amongst  the  dispensers  that  a  man  be  found 
faithful.  But  with  me  it  is  a  very  small  thing  to 
be  judged  by  you,  or  by  man's  day;  but  neither  do  I 
judge  my  own  self.  Forl  am  not  conscious  to  my- 
self of  any  thing:  yet  lam  not  hereby  justified;  but 
he  thatjudgeth  me  is  the  Lord.  Therefore  judge 
not  before  the  time  till  the  Lord  come  j  who  will 
bring  to  light  the  hidden  things  of  darkness,  and 
will  make  manifest  the  council  of  hearts  :  and  then 
shall  every  man  have  praise  from  God. 

GRAD.  P.<?.  cxliv.— The  Lord  is  near  all  those 
who  call  upon  him,  all  that  call  upon  him  in  truth. 
V.  My  mouth  shall  declare  the  praise  of  the  Lord, 
and  let  all  flesh  bless  his  holy  name.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia. 

V.  Come,  O  Lord,  and  V.  Veui,  Dominc,  et 
delay  not:  release  thy  noli  tardare :  relaxafeci- 
people  Israel  from  their  nora  phbis  tu&  Israel. 
sins.  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

(B00p£L  Luke  iii.  i.  6.— Now  in  the  fifteenth 
year  of  the  reign  of  Tiberius  Caesar  (Pontius  Pilate 
being  governor  of  Judea,  and  Herod  Tetrarch  of 
Galilee,  and  Philip  his  brother  Tetrarch  of  Iturea, 
and  the  country  of  Trachonitis,  and  Lysanias  Te- 
trarch of  Abilina  under  the  high  Priests  Annas  and 
Caiphas)  the  word  of  the  Lord  came  to  John  the 
son  of  Zacharias  in  the  desart.  And  he  came  into, 
all  the  country  about  the  Jordan,  preaching  the 
baptism  of  penance  for  the  remission  of  sins,  as  it  is 


70  CHRISTMAS  £VE. 

written  in  the  book  of  the  words  of  Isaias  the  pro- 
phet: "A  voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wilderness: 
prepare  ye  the  way  of  the  Lord  :  make  his  paths 
straight :  every  vajley  shall  he  filled,  and  every  moan* 
tain  and  hill  shall  be  brought  low:  and  the  crooked 
shall  be  made  straight ;  and  the  rough  ways  plain  ;" 
and  all  flesh  shall  see  the  salvation  of  God.  CREDO. 
j  OFFERT.  Luke  i.— Hail,  Mary,  full  of  grace* 
the  Lord  is  with  thee  :  blessed  art  thou  amongst 
women :  and  blessed  is  the  fruit  of  thy  womb. 

SECRET.     Hear  us,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
and  being  appeased  by  these  offerings,  grant  they  may 
increase  our  devotion,  and  advance  our  salvation. 
For  the  rest  of  Hie  Secrets  see  p.  52. 

COMM.  Is.  vii. — Behold  a  virgin  shall  conceive, 
and  bring  forth  a  son  ;  and  his  name  shall  be  called 
Emmanuel. 

P.  COMM.  Sumptis. — Having  received  what  has 
been  offered  to  thee,  O  Lord,  grant,  we  beseech, 
thee,  that  the  more  frequently  we  partake  of  these 
sacred  mysteries,  the  more  our  devotion  may  increase. 

For  the  rest  of  the,  Postcommunions  see  pp.  52,  53. 

CHRISTMAS  EVE. 

INTROIT.  This  day  you  shall  know  that  the 
Lord  will  come  and  save  us ;  and  in  the  morning 
you  shall  see  his  glory*  Ps.  The  earth,  and  all  it 
containeth,  is  the  Lord's  j  the  whole  world,  and 
all  that  dvvelleth  therein.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus  qui  nos. — O  God,  who  mak- 
est  us  rejoice  in  the  yearly  expectation  of  the  feast 
of  our  redemption;  grant  that  we  who  chearfully 
receive  thy  only  begotten  Son  as  a  redeemer,  may 
behold  without  fear  the  same  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
coming  as  our  judge.  Who  livest. 
This  is  the  only  Collect,  unless  it  be  Sunday,  when  a 

Com  mem.  of  it  is  here  made,  as  zceli  as  at  the  Se- 

cret  and  P.  Comm,  but  its  Gospel  is  not  read  at 

the  end  of  Mass. 


CHRISTMAS  EVE.  71 

EPISTLE.  'Rom.  i.  i.  6.— Paul  a  servant  of  Jesus 
Christ,  called  to  be  an  apostle,  separated  unto  the 
gospel  of  God,  which  he  had  promised  before  by  his 
prophets  in  the  holy  scriptures,  concerning  his  Son, 
who  was  made  to  him  of  the  seed  of  David  according 
to  the-,  tiesh  ;  who  was  predestinated  the  Son  of  God 
in  power  according  to  the  spirit  of  sanctification,  by 
the  resurrection  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  from  the 
dead;  by  whom  we  have  received  grace  and  apostle- 
ship  for  obedience  to  the  faith  in  all  nations  for  his 
name,  among  whom  are  you  also  the  called  of  Je- 
sus Christ. 

GRAD.  As  the  Introit  to  Ps.  V.  Thou  who 
rulest  Israel,  hearken,  thou  who  leaded  Joseph  like 
a  sheep;  thou  who  sittest  on  the  Cherubim,  shew 
thyself  to  Ephraim,  Benjamin  and  Manasse. — If  it 
be  Sunday  add  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  iYFo-morrow  the 
sins  of  the  earth  shall  be  cancelled,  and  the  Saviour 
of  the  world  shall  reign  over  us.  Alleluia. 

(EOgfpCl.  Matt.l.  18.  2i.— When  Mary  -the 
mother  ot  Jesus  was  espoused  to  Joseph,  before  they 
came  together,  she  was  found  with  child  of  the  Holy 
Ghost.  Whereupon  Joseph  her  husband,  being  a  just 
man,  and  not  willing  publicly  to  expose  her,  was 
minded  to  put  her  away  privately.  But  while  he 
thought  on  these  things,  behold  the  angel  of  the  Lord 
appeared  to  him  in  his  sleep,  saying;  Joseph,  son  of 
David,  fear  not  to  take  unto  thee  Mary  thy  wife,  for 
that  which  is  conceived  in  her,  is  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
And  she  shall  bring  forth  a  Son  :  and  thou  shalt  call 
his  name  Jesus  5  for  he  shall  save  his  people  from 
their  sins. 

OFKERT.     Ps.   23.— Lift   up  your  gates,  O  ye 
princes:  and  be  you  lifted  up,    O  you  eternal  gates, 
and  the  King  of  glory  shall  enter  in. 
^  SECRET.     Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  as  we  celebrate  the  eve  of  the  adorable 
birth  of  thy  Son,  we  may  one  day  receive  wilh  joy 
-rernu!  icwards.     Who  liveth/ 


72  CHRISTMAS.      I.  MASS. 

COMM.  Is.  xl.— The  glory  of  the  Lord  will  ap- 
pear, and  all  flesh  shall  see  the  salvation  of  our  God. 

P.  COMM.  Grant  us,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
relief  by  celebrating  the  birth  of  thy  only  Son, 
whose  sacred  mysteries  are  our  meat  and  drink.  Thro, 


CHRISTMAS.     I.  Mass.      At  Midnight. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  ii.— The  Lord  said  to  me:  Thou 
art  my  Son,  this  day  have  I  begotten  thee.  Ps.  Why 
have  the  Gentiles  raged,  and  the  nations  formed 
vain  designs  ?  F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dens,  qui  tec.— O  God,  who  hast 
enlightened  this  most  sacred  night  by  the  brightness 
of  him  who  is  the  true  light;  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  we  who  have  known  the  mysteries  of  this 
light  on  earth,  may  likewise  come  to  the  enjoyment 
of  it  in  heaven.  Who  liveth. 

EPISTLE.  Tit.  ii.  n.  n.— Dearly  beloved; 
The  grace  of  God  our  Saviour  hath  appeared  to  all 
men.  Instructing  us,  that  denying  ungodliness,  and 
worldly  desires,  we  should  live  soberly,  and  justly, 
and  godly,  in  this  world,  looking  for  the  blessed 
hope,  and  coming  of  the  glory  of  the  great  God 


AT  MIDNIGHT.  73 

and  our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ  :  who  gave  himself 
for  us,  that  he  might  redeem  us  from  all  iniquity, 
and  might  cleanse  to  himself  a  people  acceptable, 
a  pursuer  of  good  works.  These  things  speak,  and 
exhort,  and  rebuke  with  all  authority.  Let  no  man 
despise  thee. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cix.—  Thy  sovereignty  shall  be  dis- 
played in  the  day  of  thy  power:  in  the  brightness  of 
the  saints:  from  the  womb  before  the  day-star  1  be- 
got thee.  V.  The  Lord  said  to  my  Lord  :  Sit  thou 
on  my  right-hand,  until  I  make  thy  enemies  a  foot- 
stool  for  thy  feet.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Ps.  ii.  The 
Lord  said  to  me  :  Thou  art  my  Son,  this  day  have  1 
begotten  thee.  Alleluia. 


Luke  ii.  i  .  14.—  And  it  came  to  pass 
that  in  those  days  there  went  out  a  decree  from  Caesar 
Augustus,  that  the  whole  world  should  be  enrolled, 
This  enrolling  was  first  made  by  Cyrinus  the 
governor  of  Syria.  And  all  went  to  be  enrolled, 
every  one  into  his  own  city.  And  Joseph  also  went 
up  from  Galilee  out  of  the  city  of  Nazareth  into 
Judea,  to  the  city  or  David,  which  is  called  Bethle- 
hem :  because  he  was  of  the  house  and  family  of 
David,  to  be  enrolled  with  Mary  his  espoused  wife, 
who  was  with  child.  And  it  came  to  pass.,  that 
when  they  were  there,  her  days  were  accomplished, 
that  she  should  be  delivered.  And  she  brought 
forth  her  first-born  son,  and  wrapped  him  up  in 
swaddling  clothes,  and  laid  him  in  a  manger:  be- 
cause there  was  no  room  for  them  in  the  inn.  And 
there  were  in  the  same  country  shepherds  watching 
and  keeping  the  night  watches  over  their  fiock.  And 
behold  an  angel  of  the  Lord  stood  by  them,  and 
the  brightness  of  God  shone  round  about  them,  and 
they  feared  with  a  great  fear.  And  the  angel  said  to 
them:  Fear  not  ;  for  behold  I  bring  you  good  tidings 
01  great  joy,  that  shall  be  to  all  the  people:  for  this 
G 


74  CHRISTMAS.       II.  MASS. 

day  is  born  to  you  a  SAVIOUR,  who  is  Christ  the 
Lord,  in  the  city  of  David.  And  this  shall  be  a 
sign  unto  you  :  you  shall  find  the  infant  wrapped  in 
swaddling  clothes}  and  laid  in  a  manger.  And  sud- 
denly there  \vas  with  the  angel  a  multitude  of  the 
heavenly  army,  praising  God,  and  saying :  Glory  to 
God  in  the  highest :  and  on  earth  peace  to  men 
of  good- will. — CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xcv.—  Let  the  heavens  be  glad,  and 
the  earth  rejoice  in  the  presence  of  the  Lord,  for 
that  he  is  come. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
make  to  thee  on  this  present  solemnity,  that  by  thy 
grace,  through  the  intercourse  of  these  sacred  myste- 
ries, we  may  be  conformable  to  him,  in  whom  our 
nature  is  united  to  thine.  Who  Uveth. 

COMM.  Ps.  cix — In  the  brightness  of  the  saints, 
from  the  womb  before  the  day-star  I  begot  thee. 

P.  COMM.  Da  nobis. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord  our  God,  that  we  who  celebrate  with  joy 
the  birth  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  by  partaking 
several  times  of  these  sacred  mysteries,  may,  by  a 
worthy  conduct  of  life,  come  to  be  united  with  him. 
Who  liveth. 

Ti.  MASS.  At  break  of  day. 
INfROlT.  If.  ix.-~  A  light  shall  shine  upon  us 
this  day:  because  the  Lord  is  born  for  us:  and 
his  name  shall  be  the  WONDERFUL  ONE,  GOD,  the 
PRINCE  OF  PEACE,  the  FATHER  of  the  WORLD  TO 
COME,  of  whose  reign  there  shall  be  no  end.  Ps. 
The  Lord  hath  began  his  reign,  he  hath  clothed 
himself  with  glory:  the  Lord  hath  clothed  himself 
with  strength,  and  put  on  his  armour.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Da,  7iobi.s. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that,  as  we  are  enlightened  by 
the  new  light  of  thy  Word  become  flesh,  we 
may  shew  in  our  actions  the  effects  of  that  faith  that 
shineth  in  oui  mi-id*.  Thro'  the  same. 


CHRISTMAS.    II.   MASS.  75 

COLLECT  of  St.  Anastasia. 

Grant,  we  beseech  tbee,  O  Almighty  God,  that, 
as  we  celebrate  the  solemnity  of  blessed  Anastasia 
thy  martyr,  we  may  be  sensible  of  the  effects  of  her 
prayers  to  thee  in  our  behalf.  Thro' 

EPISTLE.  Tit.  iii.  4.  j.— Most  dearly  beloved  : 
The  goodness  and  kindness  of  God  our  Saviour  ap- 
peared ;  not  by  the  works  of  justice,  which  we  have 
done,  but  according  to  his  mercy,  he  saved  us,  by 
the  laver  of  regeneration,  and  renovation  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  whom  he  hath  poured  forth  upon  us, 
abundantly,  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Saviour:  that 
being  justified  by  his  graee,  we  may  be  heirs  accord- 
ing to  hope  of  life  everlasting,  thro1  Jesus  Christ  our 
Lord. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxviii.— Blessed  beHethatcometh  in 
the  name  of  the  Lord.  The  Lord  is  our  God,  and 
he  hath  shone  upon  us.  V.  This  is  the  work  of  the 
Lord:  and  our  eyes  see  it  with  astonishment.  Al- 
leluia, Alleluia.  V.  The  Lord  hath  begun  .his 
reign  :  he  hath  clothed  himself  with  strength,  and 
armed  himself  with  might.  Alleluia. 

C500p0U  Lukt\\.  15.  20.— At  that  time:  The 
shepherds  said  one  to  another:  Let  us  go  over  to 
Bethlehem,  and  let  us  see  this  word  that  is  come  to 
pass  which  the  Lord  hath  shewed  to  us.  And  they 
came  with  haste  :  and  they  found  Mary  and  Joseph, 
and  the  infant  lying  in  a  manger.  And  seeing,  they 
understood  of  the  word  that  had  been  spoken  to 
them  concerning  this  child.  And  all  they  that  heard 
wondered  ;  and  at  those  things  that  were  told  them 
by  the  shepherds.  But  Mary  kept  all  these  words, 
pondering  thew  in  her  heart.  And  the  shepherds  re- 
turned, glorifying  and  praising  God,  for  all  the 
things  they  had  heard  and  seen,  as  it  was  told 
unto  them.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xcii.— God  settled  the  globe  of  the 
G  * 


76  III.  MASS.    ON  CHRISTMAS  DAY. 

earth,  which  shall  not  be  shaken:  thy  throne,  O  God, 
was  placed  from  that  time  j—  -thou  art  forever. 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings,  O  Lord,  we  make, 
be  agreeable  to  the  mystery  of  this  day's  birth, 
and  always  pour  forth  peace  upon  us  ;  that  as  he, 
who  though  born  man,  shewed  himself  also  God  : 
so  may  this  earthly  substance  give  us  that  which  is 
divine. 

SECRET  of  St.  Anastasia.  Graciously  receive, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  our  offerings,  and  grant, 
by  the  merits  of  blessed  Anastasia  the  martyr,  that 
they  may  avail  to  pur  salvation.  Thro1. 

COMM.  Zach.  ix.  —  Rejoice,  O  daughter  of  Sion: 
sing  praises,  O  daughter  of  Jerusalem  :  behold  thy 
king  cometh,  the  holy  one,  and  the  Saviour  of  the 
world. 

P.  COMM.  Hujus  H<W.—  May  we,  O  Lord,  al- 
ways receive  new  light  from  this  sacrament,  which 
renevveth  to  us  the  memory  of  that  wonderful  birth, 
which  destroyed  the  old  man.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  of  St.  Anast.  Thou  hast  fed,  O  Lord, 
thy  family  with  these  sacred  oblations  :  ever  there- 
fore comfort  us  with  her  intercession,  whose  feast 
we  celebrate.  Thro*. 


in.  MASS.    On 

1NTROIT. 

A  Child  is  born  for  us,  pUER  natus  est  nobis 

and  a  Son  is  given  *T     et   Filius  datus  est 

to  us,  whose  empire  is  on  nobis  :      cujus     imperium 

his  shoulders  ;    and   his  super  humerum  ejus,    et 

name  shall  be  called  the  vocabitur     nomen     ejus, 

Angel  of  the  great  Court-  Magni  Concilii  Angelus. 

cil.  Ps.  Sing  to  the  Lord  Ps/97.     Cantate  Domino 

a  new  canticle,    for  he  canticum    novum  ; 

hath     done     wonderful  mirabilia  fecit. 

things.     V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 


III.  MASS.    ON  CHRISTMAS. DAY*  77 

COLLECT.  Concede. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  groan  under  the  old 
captivity  of  sin,  may  be  freed  therefrom  by  the  birth 
of  thy  only  begotten  Son.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Hcb.i.  1,12.— -God,  who  diversely, 
and  many  ways,  spoke  in  times  past  to  the  fathers 
by  the  prophets :  last  of  all,  in  those  days,  hath, 
spoken  to  us  by  his  Son,  whom  he  hath  appointed 
heir  of  all  things ;  by  whom  also  he  made  the  world: 
who  being  the  brightness  of  his  glory,  and  the  figure 
of  his  substance,  and  upholding  all  things  by  the 
word  of  his  power,  making  purgation  of  sins,  sitteth 
on  the  right-hand  of  the  majesty  on  high  :  being 
made  so  much  better  than  the  angels,  as  he  hath 
inherited  a  more  excellent  name  than  they.  For,  to 
which  of  the  angels  hath  he  said  at  any  time :  "Thou 
art  my  Son,  this  day  have  I  begotten  thee  ?"  And 
again:  "  I  will  be  to  him  a  father,  and  he  shall  be 
to  me  a  Son  ?"  And  again,  when  he  bringeth  in  the 
first  begotten  into  the  world,  he  saith :  "  And  let 
all  the  angels  of  God  adore  him.'*  And  to  th'e 
angels  indeed  he  saith :  "  He  that  maketh  his  angels, 
spirits :  and  his  ministers  a  flame  of  fire."  But  to  the 
Son  :  "  Thy  throne,  O  God,  is  for  ever  and  ever: 
a  sceptre  of  justice  is  the  sceptre  of  thy  kingdom. 
Thou  hast  loved  justice  and  hated  iniquity :  therefore, 
God,  thy  God,  hath  anointed  thee  with  the  oil  of 
gladness  above  thy  fellows.'*  And :  "  Thou,  in 
the  beginning,  O  Lord,  hast  founded  the  earth  : 
and  the  heavens  are  the  works  of  thy  hands.  They 
shall  perish,  but  thou  shalt  continue:  and  they  shall 
all  grow  old  as  a  garment.  And  as  a  vesture  shalt 
thou  change  them,  and  they  shall  be  changed  :  but 
thou  art  the  self-same,  and  thy  years  shall  not  fail.'* 

GRAD.    Ps.  xcvii.— All  the  earth  hath  seen  the 

salvation  of  our  God:  sing  to  the  Lord  all  the  earth. 

V.  The  Lord  hath  made  known  his  salvation  :  and 

h*:h  displayed  his  justice  before  the  Gentiles,  Allel, 

G  3 


78  ST.  STEPHEN. 

V.   A  sanctified  day        V*    Dies  sanctificatus 
hath     shone    upon    us:     Uluxitnobisi'ceniteGentes, 
come,  ye  Gentiles,  and     et  adorate  Dominumt  quia 
adore  the  Lord,  for  this     hodie  descendit  lux  magna 
day  a  great  light  is  come    super  terram.   Alleluia. 
down    upon  the    earth. 
Alleluia. 

(£0£?p0l»  Johni.  In  the  beginning,  &c.  as  p.xlv. 

OFFERT.  Ps  Ixxxviii.— -Thine  are  the  heavens, 
and  thine  is  the  earth,  thou  didst  form  the  globe  of 
the  earth,  and  all  therein ;  Justice  and  equity  are 
thesupporters  of  thy  throne. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  our  offerings,  by 
the  new  birth  of  thy  only-begotten  Son,  and  cleanse 
us  from  the  stains  of  our  sins.  Thro',  the  same. 

COMMUNICANTES,  till  the  Circumcision. 

BEING  united  in  communion,  and  celebrating 
this  most  sacred  day,  (in  the  ist  Mass,  sacred 
night,)  on  which  the  spotless  virginity  of  the  blessed 
M,  brought  forth  the  Saviour  of  the  world,  moreover 
honouring  in  the  first  place,  the  memory  of  the 
same  glorious  V.M.&c.  as  in  the  Ordinary,  p.xxxiv. 

COMM.  Ps.  xcvii.-.-The  whole  earth  hath  seen 
the  salvation  of  our  God. 

P.  COMM.  Pnt'Sta  quessttmus. — Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  as  the  Saviour  of 
the  world,  who  was  born  this  day,  procured  for  us 
a  divine  birth,  he  may  also  bestow  on  us  immorta- 
lity. Who  liveth. 

At  the   cad  of  this  Mass   is   said  the  Gospel  of  the 
Epiphany,  p.  91. 

St.  STEPHEN  the  first  Martyr. 
INTROJT.  Ps.  cxviii. 

PRINCES  sat  and  spoke  against  me  :  and  sinners 
persecuted  me:  help  me,  O  Lord  my  God,  for 
thy  servant  hath  practised  thy  commandments.    Ps. 


ST.  STEPHEN.  79 

Blessed  are  the  undefiled  in  the  way:  who  walk 
in  the  law  of  the  Lord.     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Da,  nobis.— Grant,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  that  we-  may  imitate  him  whose  me- 
mory we  celebrate,  so  as  to  learn  to  love  even  our 
enemies,  because  we  now  solemnize  his  martyrdom, 
who  knew  how  to  pray,  even  for  his  persecutors,  to 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  thy  Son.  Who  liveth. 
Common,  of  Christmas,  by  the  Collect,  Secret,  and 

P.  Comm.  of  the  III.  Mass,  p.  77. 
LESSON.  Acts  vi.  8.  10.  vii.  54.  59.— In  those 
days  :  Stephen,  full  of  grace  and  fortitude,  did  great 
wonders  and  miracles  among  the  people.  Now 
there  arose  some  of  that  which  is  called  the  syna- 
gogue of  the  Libertines,  and  of  the  Cyrenians,  and 
of  the  Alexandrians,  and  of  them  that  were  of  Cilicia 
and  Asia,  disputing  with  Stephen.  And  they  were 
riot  able  to  resist  the  wisdom  and  the  spirit  that  he 
spoke.  Chap.  vii.  54.  Now  hearing  these  things, 
they  were  cut  to  the  heart,  and  they  gnashed  with 
their  teeth  at  him.  But  he  being  full  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  looking  up  steadfastly  to  heaven,  saw  the 
glory  of  God,  and  Jesus  standing  on  the  right-hand 
of  God.  And  he  said:  Behold  1  see  the  heavens 
opened,  and  the  Son  of  man  standing  on  the  right- 
hand  of  God.  And  they,  crying  out  with  a  loud 
voice,  stopped  their  ears,  and  with  one  accord  ran 
violently  upon  him.  And  casting  him  forth  with- 
out the  city,  they  stoned  him:  and  the  witnesses 
laid  down  their  garments  at  the  feet  of  a  young  man, 
whose  name  was  Saul.  And  they  stoned  Stephen, 
invoking  and  saying:  Lord  Jesus  receive  my  spirit. 
And  falling  on  his  knees,  he  cried  with  a  loud  voice, 
saying  :  Lord,  lay  not  this  sin  to  their  charge.  And 
when  he  said  this,  he  fell  asleep  in  the  Lord. 

GRAU.  Ps.  cxviii.— Princes  sat  and  spoke  against 
me,  and  the  wicked  persecuted  me.   V.  Help  me,  O 


80  6T.  STEPHEN. 

Lord  my  God,  save  me  for  thy  mercies  sake.  A  lie- 
luia,  Alleluia. 

V.  I  see  the  heavens  opened,  and  Jesus  standing 
at  the  right  hand  of  the  power  of  God.  Alleluia. 

CBOjSptU  Matt,  xxiii.  34.  39. — At  that  time  : 
Jesus  said  to  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees:  Behold  I 
send  to  you  prophets,  and  wise  men,  and  scribes: 
and  some  of  them  you  will  put  to  death,  and  crucify, 
and  some  ye  will  scourge  in  your  synagogues,  and 
persecute  them  from  city  to  city  :  that  upon  you  may 
come  all  the  just  blood  that  hath  been  shed  upon  the 
earth,  from  the  blood  of  Abel  the  just,  even  unto 
the  blood  of  Zacharias  the  son  of  Baracchias,  whom 
you  killed  between  the  temple  and  the  altar.  Amen, 
I  say  to  you,  all  these  things  shall  come  upon  this 

feneration.  O  Jerusalem,  Jerusalem,  thou  that 
illest  the  prophets,  and  stonest  them  that  are  sent 
unto  thee,  how  often  would  I  have  gathered  to- 
gether thy  children,  as  the  hen  gathereth  her 
chickens  under  her  wings,  and  thou  wouldest  not? 
Behold,  your  house  shall  be  left  to  you  desolate. 
For  I  say  to  you,  you  shall  not  see  me  henceforth 
till  you  say:  Blessed  is  he  that  cometh  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Acts  vi.  7.— The  Apostles  chose  Ste- 
phen, a  Levite,  full  of  faith,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
whom  the  Jews  stoned,  praying  and  saying:  Lord 
Jesus,  receive  my  spirit.  Alleluia* 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  these  offerings  in 
memory  of  thy  saints:  and  as  their  sufferings  have 
made  them  glorious,  so  may  our  devotion  render  us 
free  from  sin.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Acts,  vii.— I  see  the  heavens  opened,  and 
Jesus  standing  on  the  right-hand  of  the  power  of 
God:  Lord  Jesus  receive  my  spirit,  and  lay  not  this 
gin  to  their  charge. 

P.  COMM.  4iMifeflfttK*"-May  the  mysteries  we 


ST.  JOHN  THE  EVANGELIST.  8» 

have  received,  OLord,  be  a  help  to  us,  and,  by  the 
intercession  of  the  blessed  martyr,Stephen,strengthen 
us  with  thy  perpetual  protection.  Thro'. 

St.  JOHN  the  EVANGELIST. 

INTROIT,  In  medio,  as  in  MASS  XII.   Common  of 

Doctors. 

COLLECT.  Ecclesi*.--- Mercifully,  O  Lord,  en- 
lighten  thy  Church,   that  being  taught  by  blessed 
John,  thy  Apostle  and  Evangelist,  she  may  come 
to  thy  eternal  rewards.     Thro*. 
The  Commem.  of  Christmas,  and  of  St.  Stephen, 

by  their  several  Collects,  Secrets,  undP.  Comms. 

LESSON.  Ecclus.  xv.  1.6.— He  that  feareth  God, 
will  do  good :  and  he  that  possesseth  justice,  shall  lay 
hold  on  her.  And  she  will  meet  him  as  an  honour- 
able  mother,  and  will  receive  him  as  a  wife  married 
of  a  virgin.  With  the  bread  of  life  and  understand- 
ing, she  shall  feed  him,  and  give  him  the  water  of 
wholesome  wisdom  to  drink:  and  she  shall  be  made 
strong. in  him,  and  he  shall  not  be  moved:  and  she 
shall  hold  him  fast,  and  h'e  shall  not  be  confounded: 
and  she  shall  exalt  him  among  his  neighbours,  and 
in  the  midst  of  the  Church  she  shall  open  his  mouth, 
and  shall  fill  him  with  the  spirit  of  wisdom  and  un- 
derstanding, and  shall  clothe  him  with  the  robe  of 
glory.  She  shall  heap  upon  him  a  treasure  of  joy 
and  gladness,  and  shall  cause  him  to  inherit  am 
everlasting  name. 

GRAD.  John  xxi. — A  report  was  spread  among 
the  brethren,  that  that  disciple  should  not  die  :  but 
Jesus  said  not,  he  should  not  die,  F.  But,  so  I  will 
have  him  remain  till  I  come:  follow  thou  me.  Alle- 
luia, Alleluia.  K.  This  is  the  disciple  that  beareth 
testimony  of  these  things,  and  we  know  his  testU 
many  is  true.  Alleluia. 


THE  HOLY  INNOCENTS. 

John  xxi.  19.  24.  —  ^  ^« 
Jesus  said  to  Peter:  follow  me.  Peter  turning  about, 
saw  that  disciple  whom  Jesus  loved,  following,  who 
also  leaned  on  his  breast  at  supper,  and  said: 
Lord,  who  is  he  that  shall  betray  thee?  Him  there- 
fore when  Peter  had  seen,  he  saith  to  Jesus:  Lord, 
and  what  shall  this  man  dot  Jesus  saith  to  him  : 
So  I  will  have  him  to  remain  till  I  come,  what  is  it 
to  thee?  follow  thou  me.  This  saying,  therefore  went 
abroad  among  the  brethren,  that  that  disciple  should 
not  die.  And  Jesus  did  not  say  to  him  :  He  should 
not  die;  but,  so  I  will  have  him  to  remain  till  I 
come,  what  is  it  to  thee?  This  is  that  disciple  who 
giveth  testimony  of  these  things,  and  hath  written 
these  things:  and  we  know'  that  his  testimony  is 
true.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xci.-~ The  righteous  man  shall 
flourish  Uke  the  palm  tree:  he  shall  thrive  like  the 
cedar  of  Libanus. 

-  SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
make  to  thee,  on  this  feast,  by  whose  intercession  we 
hope  to  be  delivered.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Jo/mxxi.-~A  report  was  spread  among 
the  brethren,  that  that  disciple  should  n©t  die.  But 
Jesus  said  not,  he  should  not  die ,  but  so  will  I  that 
he  remain  til!  I  come. 

P.  COMM.  Refecti  cifco.— Being  refreshed,  O 
Lord,  with  this  heavenly  meat  and  drink,  we  humbly 
beseech  thee,  that  we  may  be  assisted  by  his  prayers, 
en  whose  feast  we  have  received  these  sacred  mys- 
teries. Thro'. 

The  HOLY  INNOCENTS. 

INTROIT.  Ps.viii. — Out  of  the  mouth  of  infants 
and  sucklings  thou  hast  produced  perfect  praise  to 
confound  thy  enemies.  Ps.  O  Lord,  our  Lord,  how 
wonderful  is  thy  name  over  the  whole  earth! 
V.  Glory. 


THE    HOLY    INNOCENTS.  #3 

Gloria  in  Excelsis  is  not  said,   except  it  be   Sunday, 

or  the  Octave-day. 

COLLECT.  Dcus,  CM/MS.— O  God,  whose  praise 
the  Holy  Martyrs,  the  Innocents,  published  this  day, 
not  by  speaking,  but  by  dying  :  mortify  in  us  all  our 
vicious  inclinations,  that  we 'may  shew  forth,  in  our 
actions  thy  faith,  which  we  profess  with  our  lips. 
Thro'. 

The  Commem.  of  Christmas,  St.  Stephen,  St.  John, 
by  their  respective  Collects,  Secrets,  and  P.  Com- 
mnnions,   as  p.  77.  79.  and  81. 
LESSON.     Rev.  xiv.  i .  5.— J»  those  days  :  I  be- 
hel  j,  and  lo  a  Lamb  stood  on  mount  Sion,  and 
with  him  a  hundred  forty-four  thousand,  having  his 
name,  and  the  name  of  his  Father  written  on  their 
foreheads.     And  1  heard  a  voice  from  heaven,  as 
the  voice  of  many  waters,  and  as  the  voice  of  great 
thunder:  and   the  voice  which  I  heard,  was  as  of 
harpers,  harping  on  their  harps.  And  they  sung  as  it 
were  a  new  canticle,  before  the  throne,  and  before  the 
four  living  creatures,  and  the  ancients,  and  no  man 
could  say  the  canticle,  but  those  hundred  forty-four 
thousand,  who  were   purchased    from    the  earth. 
These  are  they  who  were  not  defiled  with  women:  for 
they  are  virgins.      These  follow  the  Lamb  whither- 
soever he  gorth.   These  were  purchased  from  among 
men,  the  first  fruits  to  God,  and  to  the  Lamb  ;  and 
in  their  mouths  there  was  found  no  lie;   for  they 
are  without  spot  before  the  throne  of  God. 

GRAD.  P.*.— Our  soul,  like  the  sparrow,  hath 
escaped  from  the  hunter's  snare.  I7.  The  snare  is  bro- 
ken, and  we  are  at  liberty  :  our  help  is  in  the  numo 
of  the  Lord,  who  made  both  heaven  and  earth. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.    V.  Praise  the  Lord :  you  his 
•-ervants,  praise  ye  the  name  of  the  Lord.     Alleluia, 
[fit  be  not  the  Octave-day  or  Sunday,  the  above  Alle- 
luias and  V.  arc  omitted;  and  in   their  ittad  is 
the  Tract. 


84  THE    HOLY    INNOCENTS. 

TRACT.    Ps.  Ixxxviii They  have  spilt  the 

blood  of  the  saints,  like  water  about  Jerusalem.  F. 
And  there  were  none  to  bury  them.  V.  Revenge, 
O  Lord,  the^lood  of  thy  saints,  which  hath  been 
spilt  on  the  earth. 

Cl500ptU  .Mfltt.ii.i3.  1 8.— At  Hit  same  time;  An 
angel  of  the  Lord  appeared  in  sleep  to  Joseph,  saying: 
Arise,  and  take  the  Child  and  his  Mother,  and  fly 
into  Egypt  ,*  and  be  there  until  I  shall  tell  thee.  For 
it  will  come  to  pass  that  Herod  will  seek  the  Child 
to  destroy  him.  And  he  arose,  and  took  the  Child 
and  his  mother  by  night,  and  retired  into  Egypt  : 
and  he  was  there  until  the  death  of  Herod:  that  the 
word  might  be  fulfilled  which  the  Lord  spoke  by  the 
prophet,  saying:  '*  Out  of  Egypt  have  I  called  my 
Son."  Then  Herod  perceiving  that  he  was  deluded 
by  the  wise  men,  was  exceeding  angry ;  and  sending 
killed  all  the  men-children  that  were  in  Bethlehem, 
and  in  all  the  borders  thereof,  from  two  years  old 
and  under,  according  to  the  time  which  he  had  dili- 
gently enquired  of  the  wise  men.  Then  was  ful- 
filled that  whirh  was  spoken  by  Jeremias  the  pro- 
phet, saying:  "A  v©ice  in  Rama  was  heard,  la* 
mentation  and  great  mourning;  Rachel  bewailing 
her  children,  and  would  not  be  comforted,  because 
they  are  not.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxiii.-.-Our  soul,  like  the  sparrow, 
hath  escaped  from  the  hunter's  snare.  The  snare  is 
broken  and  we  have  escaped. 

SECRET.  May  the  pious  prayers  of  thy  saints, 
O  Lord,  be  never  wanting  to  us,  both  to  make  our 
offerings  acceptable,  and  to  obtain,  for  us  thy 
mercy.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt,  ii.— A  noise  was  heard  in  Rama, 
there  was  weeping  and  great  mourning;  Rachel 
was  bewailing  her  children,  and  would  not  be  com. 
forted,  because  they  are  not. 

P.  COMM.  Fotiva.-*- No\v  we  have  partaken,  O 


ST.  THOMAS  OF  CANTERBURY.  85 

Lord,  of  the  votive  offerings,  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  by  the  prayers  of  thy  saints,  they  may 
procure  us  the  helps  of  this  present  life,  and  those 
of  that  which  is  to  come.  Thro1. 

St.  T.  of  CANTERBURY,  Bp.  and  M- 
INTROIT.  Let  us  all  rejoice  in  the  Lord,  and 
celebrate  this  festival  in  honour  of  blessed  Thomas 
the  martyr,  for  whose  martyrdom  the  angels  rejoice, 
and  praise  the  Son  of  God.  Ps.  Rejoice,  ye  righte- 
ous ones  in  the  Lord:  it  becometh  the  upright  to 
join  in  his  praises.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  pro  rzy'-us.— O  God,  in  defence! 
of  whose  Church,  the  glorious  prelate  THOMAS, 
fell  by  the  swords  of  wicked  men:  graut,  we  be- 
seech thee,  that  all  who  implore  his  assistance,  may 
find  comfort  in  the  grant  of  their  petition.  Thro'. 
The  Com  mem,  qf  Cnristmas,  by  the  Collect,  Secret, 

and  Postcomnumion  o/'Mass  III.  In  virtute, 
EPISTLE,  Hcb.  v.  i.  6.  —  Brethren:  Every 
high  priest  taken  from  among  men,  is  appointed 
for  men  in  the  things  that  appertain  to  God,  that  he' 
may  offer  up  gifts  and  sacrifices  for  sins:  who  can 
Lave  compassion  on  them  that  are  ignorant,  and 
that  err,  because  he  himself  also  is  compassed  with. 
infirmity.  And  therefore  he  ought,  as  for  the  peo- 
ple, so  also  for  himself,  to  offer  for  sins.  Neither 
doth  any  man  take  the  honour  to  himself,  but  he 
that  is  called  by  God,  as  Aaron  was.  So  also  Christ 
did  not  glorify  himself  to  he  made  ahipii  priest ;  but: 
he  that  said  to  him:  "  Thou  arc  my  Son,  this  day 
have  t  begotten  thee."  As  he  saith  also  in  anct  icr 
place  :  "  Thou  art  a  priest  for  ever,  according  to  the 
order  of  Melchisedech." 

GRAD.     £cc£f.  xliv.~. Behold  a  great  Prelate, 

who  in  his  days  pleased  God.     V.  There  was  none 

found  like   him  in    keeping  the  law  of  the  Mb»t 

High,     AlN-Uiici,  Alleluia.   V.  I  am  the  good  sheo- 

H 


86  SUNDAY  WITHIN   TH£  OCTAVE. 

herd,  and  I  know  my  sheep,  and  my  sheep  know 
me.     Alleluia. 


John*,  n,  1  6.  —  As  on  the  Second 
Sunday  after  Easter. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xx.—  Thou  hast  set  on  his  head,  O 
Lord,  a  crown  of  precious  stones:  he  asked  life  of 
thee,  and  thou  didst  grant  it  him.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  con- 
secrated to  thee;  and  being  appeased  thereby,  mer- 
cifully look  upon  us,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
T.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop.  Thro*. 

COMM.  John  x.—  I  am  the  good  shepherd,  and 
I  know  my  sheep,  and  my  sheep  know  me. 

P.  COMM.  H<£c  7i0s,  co???..  —May  this  communU 
on,  O  Lord,  cleanse  us  from  sin,  and,  by  the  inter* 
cession  of  blessed  Thomas,  thy  martyr  and  bishop, 
make  us  effectually  partakers  of  this  heavenly  re- 
medy.  Thro' 

•  SUNDAY  within  the  Octave  of  Christmas. 
INTROIT.  Ecclus  xviii.  and  Ps.  xcii. 

WHILST  all  things  T\UMmediumsikntium 
were  ia  quiet  si-  **r~  tenerunt  ornnia,  et 
lence,  and  the  night  in  nox  in  suo  cursu  medium 
the  midst  of  its  course,  tier  kaberet,  Omnipotent 
thy  Almighty  Word,  O  sermo  tuus,  Domine,  ete 
Lord,  came  down  from  ccelis  a  regalibus  sedibus 
thy  royal  throne  in  hea-  venit. 
ven.  Ps.  The  Lord  hath  Ps.  xcii.  Dominus  reg- 
reigned,  he  is  clothed  nuvit,  decorem  indutus 
with  beauty:  the  Lord  is  tst  :  indutus  &t  Dominuj 
clothed  with  strength,  and  fortitudinem,  et  prgcinxit 
hath  girded  himself.  se. 

V.     Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.     Omnipotent;.—  O  al  mighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  regulate  our  actions  accorcfing  to  thy  divine 


SUNDAY  WITHIN  THE  OCTAVE.  87 

will,  that,  in  the  name  of  thy  beloved  Son,  we  may 

abound  in  good  works.     Thro\ 

Commem.  of  Christmas,  St.  Thomas,  &c.  ly  their 

respective  Collects,  &c.  p.  77  and  85, 
fePISTLE.  Gal.  iv.  i.  7. —  Brethren:  As  long 
as  the  heir  is  a  child,  he  differeth  nothing  from  a 
servant,  though  he  be  Lord  of  all;  but  is  under  tu- 
tors and  governors,  until  the  time  appointed  by  the 
father.  Even  so  we,  when  we  were  children,  were  in 
bondage  under  the  elements  of  the  world.  But 
when  the  fulness  of  the  time  was  come,  God  seiithis 
Son,  made  of  a  woman,  made  under  the  law:  that 
he  might  redeem  them  who  were  under  the  law  ; 
that  we  might  receive  the  adoption  of  sons.  And 
because  you  are  sons,  God  hath  sent  the  Spirit  of  his 
Son  into  your  hearts,  crying ;  Abba,  Father. 
Wherefore  now  he  is  no  more  a  servant,  but  a  Son: 
and  if  a  son,  an  heir  also  through  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv.  and  xciii.— Thou  art  beautiful 
above  the  sons  of  men;  grace  is  spread  on  thy  li.ps. 
V.  My  heart  hath  uttered  a  good  word,  I  address  my 
works  to  the  King.  My  tongue  is  as  the  pen  of  a 
swift  writer.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  The  Lord  hath  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V. 
reigned,  he  clothed  him-  Dominus  regnavit,  deco. 
self  with  beauty  :  he  hath  rem  induit :  induit  Do. 
clothed  himself  with  minus  fortitudincm  tt 
strength,  and  armed  him-  pracinxit  sevirtute.  At* 
self  with  might.  Alleluia,  Icluia. 

d50#p£l«.  Luke  ii.  33. 40.. .-At  that  tmei Joseph, 
andMary  the  mother  of  Jesus,  were  wondering  at  these 
things  which  were  spoken  concerning  him.AndSimon 
blessed  them,  and  said  to  Mary  his  mother:  Behold 
the  child  i*  set  for  the  fall  and  for  the  resurrection  of 
many  in  Israel,  and  for  a  sign  which  shall  be  con- 
tradicted,, And  thy  own  soul  a  sword  shall  pierce, 
that  out  of  many  hearts  thoughts  may  be  revealed. 
H  a 


8S  THE   CIRCUMCJglQN* 

And  there  was  one  Anna  a  prophetess,  the  daughter 
ofPhanuel,  of  the  tribe  of  Aser:  she  was  far  ad- 
vanced in  years,  and  had  lived  with  her  husband  se- 
ven years  from  her  virginity.  And  she  was  a  widow 
until  fourscore* and  four  years;  who  departed  not 
from  the  temple,  by  fastings  and  prayers  serving  day 
and  night.  Now  she  at  the  same  hour  coming  in, 
gave  praise  to  the  Lord :  and  spoke  of  him  to  all 
that  looked  for  the  redemption  of  Israel.  And  after 
they  had  performed  ail  things  according  to  the  law 
of  the  Lord,  they  returned  into  Galilee,  to  their  own 
city,  Nazareth.  And  the  child  grew  ard  waxed 
g.  ronsr,  full  of  wisdom:  and  the  grace  of  God  was 
•  n  him. 

OFFERT.  Ps.xcii.—God  hath  settled  the  globe 
of  the  earth,  which  shall  not  be  shaken  out  of  its 
place  ;  thy  throne,  O  God,  was  placed  from  that 
time,  thou  art  for  ever. 

SECRET.— Grant,  we  beseech,  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  this  sacrifice  offered  to  thy  Divine  Majesty, 
may  obtain  for  us  the  grace  of  true  devotion,  and  a 
liappy  eternity.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt,  xi.— Take  the  child  and  the  mo- 
ther,  and  go  into  the  land  of  Israel  $  for  they  are 
dead  who  sought  the  child's  life. 

P.  COMM.  Per  AwJMj.-.-May  the  efficacy  of  this 
sacrament,  O  Lord,  cleanse  us  from  our  sins,  and 
obtain  for  us  the  accomplishment  of  our  just  desires. 
Thro1. 

Cfje  Circumcision, 

INTRO1T  Isaias  ix.  Puer  natus  est,  p.  76. 
COLLECT.  Deus  qui  salutir.~O  God,  who 
by  the  fruitful  virginity  of  the  blessed  Mary,  hast 
given  morkind  the  rewards  of  eternal  salvation  : 
grant,  we  Le  e  ch  thee,  that  we  may  experience  her 
intercession,  by  whom  we  received  the  Author  of  life, 
ojr  Lord  jes  s  Christ  thy  Son,  who  liveth. 


THE    EPIPHANY.  8<J 

EPISTLE.  Tit.  ii...-A.s  in  p.  7  2. 
•  GRAD.  Ps.  xcvii.—  The  whole  earth  hath  seen 
the  salvation  of  our  God:  sing  to  the  Lord  all  the 
earth.  V.  The  Lord  hath  made  known  his  salva^ 
lion  :  and  hath  displayed  his  justice  before  the  Gen* 
tiles.  Alleluia,  V.  A  sanctified  day  hath  shone 
upon  us  ;  come,  ye  Gentiles,  and  adore  the  Lord, 
for  this  day  a  great  light  is  come  down  upon  the 
earth.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  God,  who  hereto-  V.  Heb  iii.  Mult  if  a- 
fore  spake  various  ways  rie  olwi  Deus  loquens  pa~ 
to  our  forefathers  by  the  tribus  in  prophet  is,  no-cis- 
prophets,  hath  now  si/ng  dicbus  islis  locutus  est 
lately,  and  in  our  time,  nobls  in  filio*  Alleluia. 
spoke  to  us  by  his  Son. 

C&00pCl+  Luke  ]\.  21.  —  At  that  time:  After 
eight  days  were  accomplished  that  the  child  should 
be  circumcised  ;  his  name  was  called  ]t  sus,  which 
was  called  by  the  angel  before  he  was  conceived  in 
the  womb.  CREDO.- 

OI'TT'RT.  Ps.  Uxxviii  —  Thine  are  the  heavens, 
nnd  thine  is  the  earth.  Thou  didst  form  the  globe 
of  the  earth,  and  all  therein:  justice  and  equity  are 
the  supporters  of  thy  throne. 

SECRET*  Receive,  O  Lord,  our  offerings,  and 
prayers  :  cleanse  us  by  these  heavenly  mysteries,  and 
merciful  lv  hear  us.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xcvi.—  The  whole  earth  hath  seen 
the  salvation  of  our  God. 

P.  COMM.  Htcc  nos.—  May  this  communion,  O 
Lord,  cleanse  us  from  sin,  and  by  the  intercession 
of  blessed  Mary,  the  virgin-mother  of  God,  make 
us  partakers  of  thy  heavenly  remedy.  Thro'. 


INTROIT.  Muliuh.  iii.   Ps.  Ixxi. 
Ehold  the  Lord  the      T^CCE  advenit  Domino- 
-ruler  is  come:  and     •"   tor  Do-minus:  et 


gc.          •  THE   EPIPHANY. 

dominion,  power,  and  num  in  manu  ejus,  et  po* 
empire  are  in  his  hand,  tcstas  et  impcrium.  Ps. 
Ps.  O  God,  give  thy  Deustjudicium  tuum  regi- 
judgment  to  the  king,  da;  et  justitiam  tuam 
and  thy  justice  to  the  filioregis.  V.  Gloria. 
king's  son.  F.  Glory. 

COLL.  Deus,  qui  hodierna.'-.Q  God,  who  by 
the  direction  of  a  star  didst  this  day  manifest  thy  only 
Son  to  the  Gentiles;  mercifully  grant  that  we,  who 
now  know  thee  by  faith,  may  come  at  length  to  see 
the  glory  of  thy  Majesty.  Thro*  the  same, 

LESSON.  Isaias  Ix.  i.  9.— -Arise,  be  enlighten- 
ed, O  Jerusalem,  for  thy  light  is  come,  and  the 
glory  of  the  Lord  is  risen  upon  thee.  For  behold 
darkness  shall  cover  the  earth,  and  a  mist  ihe 
people  :  but  the  Lord  shall  arise  upon  thee,  and  his 
glory  shall  be  seen  upon  thee.  And  the  Gentiles 
shall  walk  in  thy  light,  and  kings  in  the  brightness 
of  thy  rising.  Lift  up  thy  eyes  round  about  and  see : 
all  these  are  gathered  together,  they  are  come  to 
thee,  thy  sons  shall  come  from  afar,  and  thy  daugh- 
ters shall  rise  up  at  thy  side.  Then  shalt  thou  see 
and  abound,  and  thy  heart  shall  wonder  and  be  en- 
larged; when  the  multitude  of  the  sea  shall  be  con- 
verted to  thee,  the  strength  of  the  Gentiles  shall 
come  to  thee.  The  multitude  of  camels  shall  cover 
thee,  the  dromedaries  of  Madian  and  E.pha :  all  they 
from  Saba  shall  come,  bringing  gold  and  frank- 
incense, and  ihewing  forth  praise  to  the  Lord. 

GRAD.  Js.  Ix.  Malt,  ii.—  All  shall  come  from, 
Saba,  bringing  jrold  and  frankincense,  and  publish, 
ing  the  praises  of  the  Lord.  Arise,  Jerusalem  :  be 
enlightened  :  for  the  glory  of  the  Lord  is  risen  upon 
thee.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V*  We  saw  his  star  in  V.  Vidimus  stellam  eju& 
the  east  :  and  are  come  in  oricnte ;  et  yeniwus. 
with  our  offerings  to  a-  cum  muneribus,  adorare 
dore  the  Lord.  Alleluia.  Domlnum.  Alleluia. 


THE  EPIPHANY.  9! 

Matt.  n.  i.  12.— When  Jesus  was 
born  in  Bethlehem  of  Juda,  in  the  days  of  king 
Herod,  behold  there  came  wise  men  from  the  east 
to  Jerusalem,  saying :  Where  is  he  that  is  born  King 
of  the  Jews?  For  we  have  seen  his  star  in  the  east, 
and  are  come  to  adore  him.  And  Herod  hearing 
this  was  troubled,  and  all  Jerusalem  with  him.  And 
assembling  together  all  the  chief  priests  and  the 
scribes  of  the  people  he  enquired  of  them  where 
Christ  should  be  born.  But  they  said  to  him,  in 
Bethlehem  of  Juda.  For  so  it  is  written  by  the  pro- 
phet. "Andthou,  Bethlehem,  the  land  of  Juda, 
art  not  the  least  among  the  princes  of  Juda  ;  for  out 
of  thee  shall  come  forth  the  ruler  that  shall  rule  my 
people  Israel.'*  Then  Herod  privately  calling  the 
wise  men,  enquired  of  them  diligently  the  time  of 
the  star's  appearing  to  them  ;  and  sending  them  into 
Bethlehem,  said;  Go,  and  search  diligently  after 
the  child:  and  when  you  have  found  him,  bring 
me  word  again,  that  I  also  may  come  and  adore 
him.  And  when  they  had  heard  the  king,  they 
went  their  Way  ;  and  behold  the  star  which  they  had 
seen  in  the  east  went  before  them,  until  it  came  and 
stood  over  where  the  child  was.  And  seeing  the 
star,  they  rejoiced  with  exceeding  great  joy.  And 
entering  into  the  house,  they  found  the  child  with 
Mary  his  mother,  and  falling  down  they  adored 
him:  and  opening  their  treasures,  they  offered  him 
gifts,  gold,  frankincense,  and  myrrh.  And  having 
received  an  answer  in  sleep  that  they  should  not  re- 
turn to  Herod,  they  went  back  another  away  into 
their  own  country.  CREDO. 

OFFttRT.  A-.  Ixxi  —The  Kings  of  Tharsis  and 
the  Islands  shall  make  their  otlerings :  the  Kings  of 
the  Arabians  and  of  Saba  shall  bring  their  presents: 
all  the  it  ings  of  the  earth  shall  adore  him,  ami  all 
nations  s-uU  serve  him. 


9*  T.  SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIPHANY. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  we 
"beseech  ther,  on  the  offerings  of  thy  church  5 
among  which  gold,  frankincense,  and  myrrh  are' no 
longer  offered ;  but  what  was  signified  by  those  of. 
ferings  is  sacrificed  and  received,  Jesus  Christ,  thy 
Son  our  Lord.  Who  liveth. 

COMMUNICANTES.— -^Being  united  in  communi- 
on, and  celebrating  that  most  sacred  day  on  which 
thy  only  begotten  Son,  co-eternal  with  thee  in  thy 
glory,  appeared  in  a  visible  body  in  the  reality  of 
our  flesh.  Moreover,  honouring  in  the  first  place  the 
memory  of  blessed  Mary  ever  a  Virgin,  &rc.  p.  xxxiv. 

COMM. — We  have  seen  his  star  in  the  east,  and 
are  come  with  offerings  to  adore  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Prasia  quasumus. — Grant,  we  be* 
seech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  our  minds  may 
be  so  purified,  as  to  understand  what  we  celebrate 
on  this  great  solemnity.  Thro*. 

I.     SUNDAY  after  EPIPHANY. 

INTROIT.  Js.vi.   Ps.  xcix. 

T  Saw  a  man  seated  on  a      TN  excelso  throno  mJi  se<* 
•*•    high  throne,  whom  a     "*•    derevirnmy  quern  ado- 
multitude  of  angels  aclor-     rat  multitude  An.gdoruni 
ed,  singing  all  together  :    psallentes  in  unum  :  Ecce 
Behold  him,  whose  name     ciijus  imperil  nom&n  tst  in 
and  empire  are  to  last  for    ate:  num. 
ever.     Ps.    Sing   to  the         Ps.  Jubilate  Deo  omnis 
Lord    with    joy   all   the     terra :  servitc  Domino  itt 
earth:  serve  the  Lord  in     latiiia.     V.  Gloria. 
gladness,     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Votagiitfsumus.— According  to  thy 
divine  mercy 9  O  Lord,  receive  the  vows  of  thy  peo- 
ple, who  pour  forth  their  prayers  to  thee;  that  they 
may  know  what  their  duty  requireth  of  them,  and 
be  able  to  comply  with  what  they  know.  Thro'. 
Here,  and  at  the  Secret  and  Postcommunion,  is  made 


X,  SUNDAY  AFTER  EFiPHAN  Y,  93 

o  Commemoration  of  the  Epiphany,  by  the  Collect, 

&c.  of  that  Feast,  p.  90.  &c. 

EPISTLE.  Rom.  xii.  i.  5. — Brethren:  I  be- 
seech you,  by  the  mercy  of  God,  that  you  pre- 
sent your  bodies  a  living  sacrifice,  holy,  pleas- 
ing  to  God,  your  reasonable  service.  And  be 
no't  conformed  to  this  world ;  but  be  ye  re- 
formed in  the  newness  of  your  mind:  that  you  may 
pr^ye  what  is  the  good,  and  the  acceptable,  and  the 
perfect  will  of  God.  For  I  say,  through  the  grace 
that  is  given  me,  to  all  that  are  among  you,  not  to 
be  more  wise  than  it  behoveth  to  be  wise,  but  to  be 
wise  unto  sobriety,  and  according  as  God  hath  di- 
vided to  every  one  the  measure  of  faith.  For  as  in 
one  body  we  have  many  members,  but  all  the  mem- 
bers have  not  the  same  office:  so  we,  being  many, 
are  one  body  in  Christ,  and  every  one  members  of 
one  another,  in  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

GRAD.     Ps.  Ixxu— Blessed  be  the  Lord  God  of 
Israel,  who  alone  hath  done  great  wonders  from  the 
beginning.     V.  Let  the  mountains  receive  peacefor 
thy  people,  and  the  hills  righteousness.  Alleluia. 
,     V.  Sing  to   the  Lord         V.     Jubilate  Deo  omnis 
with  joy   all   the  earth,     terra:  servite  Domino  in 
and  serve  him  with  glad-     latitia.     Alleluia. 
ness.     Alleluia. 

(BOjSp^l*  Luke  ii.  42.  52.— When  Jesus  was 
twelve  years  old,  they  went  up  to  Jerusalem  accord- 
ing to  the  custom  of  the  feast.  And  after  they  had 
fulfilled  the  days,  when  they  returned,  the  child 
Jesus  remained  in  Jerusalem,  and  his  parents  knew 
•it  not.  And  thinking  that  he  was  in  the  company, 
they  came  a  day's  journey,  and  sought  him  among 
their  kinsfolks  and  acquaintance.  And  not 
finding  him,  they  returned  into  Jerusalem  seeking 
him.  And  it  came  to  pass,  that  after  three  days  they 
found  him  in  the  teniple,  sitting  in  the  midst  of  the 


94  II.  SUNDAY   AFTER  EPIPHANY. 

doctors,  hearing  them,  and  asking  them  questions. 
And  all  that  heard  him,  were  astonished  at  his  wis- 
dom and  his  answers.  And  seeing  him,  they  won- 
dered.  And  feis  mother  said  to  him:  Son,  why 
hast  thou  done  so  to  us  ?  Behold  tny  father  and  I 
have  sought  thee  sorrowing.  And  he  said  to  them : 
How  is  it  that  you  sought  me?  Did  you  not  know 
thai  I  must  be  about  my  father's  business?  And 
they  understood  not  the  word  that  he  spoke  unto 
them.  And  he  went  down  with  them,  and  came  to 
Nazareth:  and  was  subject  to  them.  And  his  mo- 
ther kept  all  tbese  words  in  her  heart.  And  Jesus 
increased  in  wisdom,  and  age,  and  grace  with  God 
and  man.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xcix.— Sing  with  joy  to  God  all 
the  earth,  serve  the  Lord  in  gladness:  present  your- 
selves  to  him  with  transports  of  joy,  for  the  Lord  is 
God. 

SECRET.  May  the  sacrifice  we  have  offered  to 
thee,  O  Lord,  always  enliven  and  defend  us.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Luke  ii.~ -Son,  why  hast  thou  done  so 
with  us  ?  I  and  thy  father  have  sought  thee  with  sor- 
row. And  why  did  you  seek  me  ?  Did  you  not 
know  that  I  must  be  about  the  concerns  of  my 
Father  ? 

P.  COMM.  Supplices.— Grant,  we  humbly  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  those  whom  thou 
refreshest  with  thy  sacraments,  may,  by  a  life  well- 
pleasing  to  thee,  worthily  serve  thee.  Thro*. 

II,  SUNDAY  after  EPIPHANY. 

The  FEAST  of  the  HOLY  NAME  JESUS. 

INTROIT.  Phil.  ii.   Ps.  viii. 

AT  the  name  of  Jesus      TN  nomine  Jesu  omne  ge« 
let  every  knee  bend     •*  nuftectatur  calestium, 
in  heaven,  on  earth,  and     terrestrium  et  irifernorum: 
under  the  earth:  and  every     et  omnis  lingua  confitea* 
tongue  confess  that  the    tur,  quia  Dominus  Jesus 


THE  FEAST  OF,   &C.  9$ 

Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  in  the  Christus  in  gloria  cst  Dei 
glory  of  God  the  Father.  Patris.  Ps.  Domine  Do- 
Ps.  O  Lord  our  Lord,  minus  noster,  quam  udmi- 
how  wonderful  is  thy  rabile  est  nomen  suum  in 
name  over  the  whole  universa terra.  V.Gloria. 
earth.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dcus  qui—O  God,  who  didst  ap- 
point thy  only  begotten  Son  the  Saviour  of  mankind, 
and  commandedst  that  his  name  should  be  called 
JESUS  :  mercifully  grant,  that  we  who  venerate  his 
holy  name  on  earth,  may  also  enjoy  his  sight  in  hea- 
ven. Thro'. 

COLLECT  of  the  Sunday.  Omnipotent.-— O  al- 
mighty and  eternal  God,  supreme  Ruler,  both  of 
heaven  and  earth,  mercifully  give  ear  to  the  prayers 
of  thy  people,  and  grant  us  peace  in  our  time. 
1  hro\ 

LESSON.  Actttw.S.  le.-.-I/z  those  days:  Peter 
being  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost,  said  to  them  :  Ye 
rulers  of  the  people  and  ancients,  hear:  if  we  this 
day  are  examined  concerning  the  good  deed  done 
to  the  infirm  man,  by  what  means  he  hath  been 
made  whole;  be  it  known  to  you  all,  and  to  all  the 
people  of  Israel,  that  by  the  name  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  of  Nazareth,  whom  you  crucified,  whom 
CTOC!  hath  raised  from  the  dead,  even  by  him 
doth  this  man  stand  here  before  you  whole. 
11  This  is  the  stone  which  was  rejected  by  you  the 
builders,  which  is  become  the  head  of  the  corner;" 
neither  is  there  salvation  in  any  other.  For  there  is 
no  other  name  under  heaven  given  to  men  whereby 
We  must  be  saved. 

GRAD.     Pa.  cv.— Save  us,  O  Lord  our  God,  and 

ather  us  together  from  amidst  the  nations,  that  we 

may  praise  thy  holy  name,  and  rejoice  in  thy  praise. 

v    Vi!'          u  Lord  artour  Father  and  Redeemer. 

£.     My   mouth    shall         V.   Luudem  Domini  to. 

puoiishjhe  praises  of  the    $uttur  os  mcum,  ct  bcne. 


<)6  II.    SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIFHANV. 

Lord :   and   let  all  fl-  sh     dicat  omnis     caro   nomen 
bless  his  holy  name.  Aiel.     sanctum  tjus.     Alleluia* 
After  Septuageshna,   instead  of  the.  foregoing  V.  and 

Alleluia,   is  said  the 

TRACT.  Domine  Dens  virtu  turn  cunverie  nos  ; 
et  ostfndc  faciem  tuam,  et  salvi  erimus:  soiie.t  vfc 
tiia  in  auribus  meis.  Convert  us  to  thee,  O  Lord 
God  of  Hosts:  shew  us  thy  face,  and  we  shall  be 
saved:  let  thy  voice  sound  in  my  ears. 

V.  For  sweet  is  thy  voice,  and  very  brauiifm  is 
thy  countenance.       V.  Thy  name,  O  Jesus!  is  as  ?i 
sweet  perfume;  tlierefore  have  virgins  loved  ihee. 
(j£>0$p?l.  Luke\\.    Asp.Sg. 
OFFEKT.  Ps.  Ixxxvi.— I  will  praise  thee,  O  Lord 
my  God,  with  my  whole  heart,  arid  I  will  give  glo- 
ry to  thy   name  for  ever:    because,  O  Lord,  thou 
art  good  and  gracious,  and  full  of  mercy  towards  all 
that  call  upon  thee.     Alleluia. 

SECRET*  May  thy  blessing,  O  most  merciful 
God,  by  which  every  creature  is  enlivened  and  sub- 
sists, sanctify  this  our  sacrifice,  which  we  offer  thr<? 
in  honour  of  the  name  of  thy  Son,  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ:  that  it  may  be  acceptable  to  the  praise  of  thy 
majesty,  and  available  to  our  salvation.  Thro'  the 
same. 

SECRET  of  the  Sunday.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  our 
offerings,  and  cleanse  us  from  the  stains  of  our  sins* 
Thro'. 

PR.EFAC:.  Quia  per  incarnati,  p*  xxx, 
COAIM.  Ps.  Ixxxv— -  All  nations  whom  thou 
hast  created,  shall  come  and  fall  before  thee,  O 
Lord,  and  shall  glorify  thy  holy  name  j  for  thou  art 
truly  great  and  performest  wonders :  thou  alone 
art  God.  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  OmnipotenSi—O  almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  who  didst  both  create  and  redeem  us,  mer- 
cifully hear  our  prayers,  and  vouchsafe,  with  a 
pleasiag  and  kind  countenance,  to  receive  the  saci  • 


THE  FEAST  OF,  &C«  9; 

r>f  this  victim  of  our  salvation,  which  we  Jiave  offer- 
ed to  thy  divine  majesty,  in.  honour  of  the  name  of 
thy  Son,  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ;  that  thy  grace  be- 
ing poured  on  us,  thro'  the  glorious  nnme  of  Jesus, 
as  a  pledge  of  our  eternal  predestination,  we  may 
rejoice  that  our  names  are  written  in  heaven.  Thro' 
the  same. 

P.  COMM-  of  the  Sunday.  Auguitur.-.'May  the 
efficacy  of  thy  power,  O  Lord,  be  increased  in  us, 
that  being  fed  with  thy  divine  sacraments,  we  may, 
thro*  thy  bounty,  be  prepared  to  receive  what  they 
promise.  Thro'. 

The  following  (being  the  Gospel  of  the  Sunday J  u 
read  at  the  end  c^' Mass. 

C£>Q0pC{.  John  ii.  T.  n.— At  that  time:  There 
was  a  marriage  in  Can  a  of  Galilee  :  and  the  molhec 
of  JESUS  was  there.  And  JESUS  also  was  invited,and 
his  disciples,  to  the  marriage.  And  the  wine  failing, 
the  motherof  JESUS  sai  th  to  him:  They  have  no  wine. 
And  JESUS  saith  to  her:  Woman,  what  is  it  to  me-anJ 
tothee?  My  hour  is  not  yet  come.  Bis  mother 
saith  to  the  waiters:  Whatsoever  he  shall  say  to  you, 
do  ye.  Now  there  were  set  there  six  water- pots  of 
stone,  according  to  tlve  manner  of  thve  purifying  of 
the  Jews,  containing  two  or  three  measures  a  piece. 
JESUS  saith  to  them:  Pill  the  water-pots  with  wa- 
ter. And  they  filled  them  up  to  the  brim.  And 
JESUS  saith  to  them :  Draw  out  now,  and  carry  to 
the  chief  steward  of  the  feast.  And  they  carried  it. 
And  when  the  chief  steward  had  tasted  the  water 
made  wine,  and  knew  not  whence  it  was,  but  the 
\vaiters  knew  who  had  drawn  the  water;  the  chief 
steward  calleth  the  bridegroom,  and  saith  to  him: 
Every  man  at  first  settelh  forth  good  wine,  and  when 
men  have  well  drank,  then  that  which  is  worse.  But 
thou  hast  kept  the  good  wine  until  now.  This  be. 
ginning  of  miracles  did  JESUS  in  Cana  of  Galilee: 


98  III.    SUNDAY  -AFTER  EPIPHANY. 

and  he  n  \anifested  his  glory,  and  his  disciples  be* 
lieved  in  him.  Deo  gratias. 

III.    SUNDAY  after  EPIPHANY. 
INTRO1T.    IVxcvi. 

ADORE  God,  all  ye  tfDORATE  Dfum, 
his  angels :  Sion  •*•*  omnes  angcli  ejus : 
heard  and  was  glad,  and  audivit  et  l&tata  est  Sion  : 
the  daughters  of  Juda  re-  et  cxultaveruntJiliacJudte. 
joiced.  Ps.  The  Lord  Ps-  Dominus  regnavit,  tx- 
hath  reigned,  let  the  ultet  terra,  latentur  in- 
earth  rejoice,  and  many  niltzmulta. 
islands  be  glad.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotent..  —  O  almighty  and 
eternal  God,  mercifully  re^  ard  our  weakness,  and 
stretch  forth  the  right  hand  of  thy  majesty  to  protect 
us.  Thro\ 

EPISTLE.      Rom.  xii.  16- Brethren:  Be  not 

•wise  in  your  own  conceits:  Tender  to  no  man  evil 
for  evil;  provide  things  goo -d,  not  only  in  the  sight 
of  God,  but  also  in  the  sigh  it  of  all  men.  If  it  be 
possible,  as  much  as  in  yo  u,  have  peace  with  all 
men.  Revenge  not  yourselves,  my  dearly  beloved: 
but  give  place  to  wrath:  for  it  is  written:  "  Re- 
venge is  mine,  I  will  repay,'"  saith  the  Lord.  But 
rl  if  thy  enemy  be  hungry,  give  him  to  eat;  if  he 
thirst,  give  him  to  drink;  fo't;  doing  this,  thou  shalt 
heap  coals  of  fire  on  his  head."  Be  not  overcome 
by  evil,  but  overcome  evil  with  good. 

GRAB.  Ps.  ci.  and  xcvii.— The  Gentiles  shall 
fear  thy  name,  O  Lord,  an  d  all  the  kings  of  the 
earth  shall  revere  thy  majesty,  V  For  the  Lord 
hath  built  up  Sion,  and  then*  shall  he  be  seen  in  his 
glory.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Ps.  The  Lord  hath         V.  Ps.  xcvi.     Dominus 
begun  his  reign,  let  the     rc^nwit9   exultct  terra 
earth  be  glad,  and  all  the     larcntur    insult 
islands  rejoice*    Alleluia.    ALlduia. 


III.    SUNDAY  AFTER   EPIPHANY.  99 


Matt.  viii.  i.  1  5—-  At  that  time: 
When  Jesus  was  come  down  from  the  mountain*  tfreat 
m&ltitudes  followed  him:  and  behold  a  leper  -came 
and  worshipped  him,  saying:  Lord,  if  thou-  wilt 
thou  canst  make  me  clean.  And  Jesus  put  forti  Ins 
hand,  and  touched  him,  saying:  I  will.  Be  diou 
made  clean.  And  immediately  his  leprosy  ivas 
cleansed.  And  Jesus  saith  to  him  :  See  thou  tell  no 
man:  but  go  shew  thyself  to  the  priest,  and  qfTer 
the  gift  which  Moses  commanded  for  a  testimony 
unto  them.  *And  when  he  had  entered  into  Capha  r- 
naum,  there  came  to  him  a  centurion,  beseechii  ig 
him,  and  saying:  Lord,  my  servant  lieth  at  hcrne 
sick  of  the  palsy,  and  is  grievously  tormented.  A  nd 
Jesus  saith  to  him  ;  I  will  come  and  heal  him.  A  nd 
the  centurion  making  answer  said  :  Lord,  I  am  D  ot 
worthy  that  thou  sho^ldst  enter  under  my  roof  :  fe  ut 
only  say  the  word,  and  my  servant  shall  be  beaked, 
For  I  also  am  a  man  under  authority,  having  sol- 
diers under  me;  and  I  say  to  this  man,  Go,  and  he 
goeth,  and  to  another,  Come,  and  he  cometh,  ai  id 
to  my  servant,  Do  this,  and  he  doeth  it*  And  win  3n 
Jesus  heard  this,  he  marvelled  :  and  said  to  th«  m 
that  followed  him  :  Amen  I  say  to  you,  I  have  not 
found  so  great  faith  in  Israel.  And  I  say  unto  you, 
that  many  shall  come  from  the  east  and  the  w<  *t, 
and  shall  sit  down  with  Abraham,  and  Isaac,  a.nd 
Jacob  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven  :  but  the  child  reu 
of  the  kingdom  shall  be  cast  out  into  the  exter  ior 
darkness  ;  there  shall  be  weeping  and  gnashing  of 
teeth.  And  Jesus  said  to  the  centurion  :  Go,  ap  d  as 
thou  hast  believed,  so  be  it  done  to  thee.  And.  the 
servant  was  healed  at  the  same  hour.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.     Ps.  cxvii.--.The  right  hand  of    the 
Lord  hath  shewn  its  power:  the  right  hand  cjfthe 
Lord  hath  raised  me  up:  I  shall  not  die,  bitft  live, 
and  I  will  publish  the  works  of  the  Lord. 
I  z 


100  IV.    SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIPHANY. 

SECRET.  May  this  offering,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  cleanse  away  our  sins:  and  sanctify  the 
bodk  s  and  souls  of  thy  servants,  to  prepare  them  for 
worthily  celebrating  this  sacrifice.  Thro'. 

COMiM.  Lu&e  iv.  a  2. —All  wondered  at  the 
words  that  came  from  the  mouth  of  God. 

P.  COMM.  Quos  tantis.—We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  that  we,  to  whom  thou  vouchsafest  the  use 
of  these  great  mysteries,  may  be  made  truly  worthy 
to  receive  the  benefits  thereof.  Thro*. 

IV,  SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIPHANY. 

The  Introit,  Gradual,  Offertory,  and  Communion, 

as  on  last  Sunday,  are  continued  till  Septuagesima. 

COLLECT.     Dcusgui. 

OGOD,  who  knowest,  that  thro*  human  frailty 
we  are  not  able  to  subsist  amidst  so  many  dan- 
gers, grant  us  health  of  soul  and  body;  that  what- 
soever we  suffer  for  our  sins,  we  may  overcome  by 
thy  assistance.  Thro'. 
After  Candlemas  the  II.  Collect  (A  cunctis)  p.  xxi. 

with  its  Secret,  p.  xxvii.  and  Postcom.  p.  xliv.  is 

continued  till  Passion  Sunday;    the  III.  (except 

from  Ash- Wednesday  to  Passion  Sunday)  is  at 

the  choice  of  the  Priest. 

EPISTLE.  Rom.  xiii.  8,  10. ...  Brethren  :  Owe 
no  man  any  thing,  but  to  love  one  another:  for  he 
that  loveth  his  neighbour,  hath  fulfilled  the  law.  For 

Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery :  Thou  shall  not 
kill:  Thou  shalt  not  steal:  Thou  shalt  not  bear 
false  witness:  Thou  shalt  not  covet:"  and  if  there 
be  any  other  commandment,  it  is  comprised  in  this 
word:  "Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbour  as  thyself." 
The  love  of  our  neighbour  worketh  no  evil*  Love 
therefore  is  the  fulfilling  of  the  law. 

0£}0$fp£l-  Matt.  viii.  23.  27....^*  that  time; 
When  Jesus  entered  into  the  ship,  his  disciples 


V.    SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIPHANY.  1O1 

followed  him;  and  behold  a  great  tempest  arose  in 
the  sea,  so  that  the  ship  was  covered  with  waves, 
but  he  was  asleep.  And  his  disciples  came  to  him, 
and  awakened  him,  saying:  Lord,  save  us,  we  pe- 
rish. And  Jesus  saith  to  them:  Why  are  ye  fear- 
ful. O  ye  of  little  faith  ?  Then  rising  up,  he  com- 
manded  the  winds  and  the  sea,  and  there  came  a 
great  calm.  But  the  men  wondered,  saying  :  What 
manner  of  man  is  this,  for  the  winds  and  the  sea 
obey  him.  CREDO. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  almi^ty 
God,  that  the  offering  of  this  sacrifice  may  always 
cleanse  our  frailty  from  all  evil,  and  be  a  protection, 
to  us.  Thro*. 

P,  COMM.  Munera  tua.— May  thy  gifts,  which 
we  have  partaken  of,  O  God,  detach  us  from  all 
earthly  pleasures,  and  ever  refresh  and  strengthen  us 
with  heavenly  food.  Thro'. 

V.  SUNDAY  after  EPIPHANY. 

COLLECT.  Fui'iilia /??.— Preserve,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  thy  family  by  thy  constant  mercy* 
that  we,  who  confide  solely  in  the  support  of  thy 
heavenly  grace,  may  be  always  defended  by  thy 
protection*  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Colo*,  iii.  12,  17.—  Bretfircn :  Put 
ye  on  therefore,  as  the  elect  of  God,  holy  and  be- 
loved, the  bowels  of  mercy,  benignity, 'humility, 
modesty,  patience:  bearing  with  one  another,  and 
forgiving  one  another,  if  any  have  a  complaint 
against  another :  even  as  the  Lord  hath  forgiven  you, 
so  do  you  also.  But  above  all  these  things  have 
charity,  which  is  the  bond  of  perfection  :  and  let  the 
peace  of  Christ  rejoice  in  your  hearts,  wherein  also 
you  are  called  in  one  body  :  and  be  ye  thankful. 
Let  the  word  of  Christ  dvve'A  in  you  abundantly,  in 
all  wisdom,  teaching  and  admonishing  one  another 
J  3 


102  VI.    SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIPHANY. 

in  psalms,  hymns,  and  spiritual  canticles,  singing 
in  grace  in  your  hearts  to  God.  All  whatsoever  you 
do  in  word  or  in  work,  do  all  in  the  name  of  the. 
Lord  Jesus  Christ*  giving  thanks  to  God  and  the 
Father,  thro1  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

(£D0pel.  Matt.  xiii.  24.  30.— ./I*  that  time  ; 
Jesus  spoke  this  parable  to  the  multitude,  saying: 
The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  likened  to  a  man  that 
sowed  good  seed  in  his  field.  But  while  men  were 
asleep,  his  enemy  came  and  oversowed  cockle 
among  the  wheat,  and'  went  his  way.  And  when 
the  blade  was  sprung  up,  and  brought  forth  fruit, 
then  appeared  also  the  cockle.  Then  the  servants  of 
the  good  man  of  the  house  said  to  him  :  Sir,  didst 
thou  not  sow  good  seed  in  thy  field  ?  from  whence 
then  hath  it  cockle  ?  And  he  said  to  them :  An  ene- 
my hath  done  this.  And  the  servants  said  to  him:  Wilt 
thou  that  we  go  and  gather  it  up  ?  And  he  said :  No, 
lest  while  you  gather  up  the  cockle,  you  root  up 
the  wheat  also  together  with  it.  Let  both  grow  un- 
til the  harvest,  and  in  the  time  of  the  harvest  I  will 
say  to  the  reapers :  Gather  up  first  the  cockle,  and 
bind  it  in  bundles  to  burn,  but  gather  the  wheat  into 
my  barn. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  this  sacrifice 
of  propitiation:  that  thou  wouldst  mercifully  forgive 
us  our  sins,  and  guide  our  tottering  hearts.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Quasumus.—VJe  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  Go^l,  that  we  may  one  day  receive  the 
effects  of  that  salvation,  of  which  we  have  received 
the  pledge  in  these  mysteries.  Thro*. 

VI.  SUNDAY  after  EPIPHANY. 

COLLECT.     Prtf6ta.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 

D  Almighty  God,  that  being  always  intent  upori 

what  is  reasonable  and  just,  we  may,  both  in  word 

and  deed,  perform  what  is  acceptable  to  thee.  Thro'. 


VI.    SUNDAY  AFTER  EPIPHAWVf.  103 

EPISTLE,  i  Tbess.  i.  2.  10— - Brcl .hrcn:  We 
g'we  thanks  to  God  always  for  you  all  ;  making  a 
remembrance  of  you  vn  our  prayers  without  ceasing; 
being  mindful  of  you  in  the  work  of  yc  mr  faith,  and 
hope  and  charity,  and  of  the  endurinf  r  'of  the  hope 
of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  before  Gorl  and  our  Fa- 
ther:  knowing,  brethren,  beloved  -of  God,  your 
election:  Tor  our  gospel  hath  notheen  to  you  in 
word  only  but  in  power  also,  ap  d  in  the  Holy 
Ghost,  and  in  much  fulness,  as  you  'know  what  man- 
ner of  men  we  have  been  among  y  3u  for  your  sakes. 
And  you  became  followers  of  u.«,  and  of  the  Lord; 
receiving  the  word  in  much  tribu)  ation,  with  joy  of 
the  Holy  Ghost:  so  that  you  w  ere  made  a  pattern 
to  all  that  believe  in  Macedonia  and  in  Achaia.  For 
from  you  was  spread  abroad  tlve  word  of  the  Lord, 
not  only  in  Macedonia  and  io  Achaia,  but  also  in 
every  place  your  faith,  whicK  is  towards  God,  is 
gone  forth,  so  that  we  need  not  speak  any  thing. 
For  they  themselves  relate  of  us,  what  manner  of 
entering  in  we  had  unto  yc*  ;  ;  and  how  you  turned. 
to  God  from  idols,  to  servo  the  living  and  true  God, 
and  to  wait  for  his  Son  from  heaven  (whom  he 
raised  up  from  the  dead)  J'ESUS,  who  hath  delivered 
lis  from  the  wrath  to  corr.e. 

CpQ£fBCl«  Matt.  x?.ii.  31.35.—^  that  time: 
Jesus  spo\e  to  the  n«i  iltitude  this  parable:  The 
kingdom  of  heaven  is  U'ke  to  a  grain  of  mustard-seed, 
which  a  man  took  an»d  sowed  in  his  field.  Which 
indeed  is  the  least  of?.  11  seeds:  but  when  it  is  grown 
up,  it  is  greater  tfuv  \  any  herbs,  and  becometh  a 
tree,  so  that  the  bi'rds  of  the  air  come  and  dwell  in 
the  branches  thereo  f.  Another  parable  he  spoke  to 
them  :  the  kingdom  of  heaven  is  like  to  leaven, 
which  a  woma'/f  took  and  hid  in  three  measures  of 
meal,  until  il*e  'whole  was  leavened.  All  these 
things  Jesus  spjok.«fc  in  parables  to  the  multitudes;  and 


104  SEPTUAGESIMA  SUNDAY, 

without  parables  he  did  not  speak  to  them :  that  the 
word  might  be  fulfilled  which  was  spoken  hy  the 
prophet,  saying:  1  will  open  ray  mouth  in  para- 
bles,  L  will  utter  things  hidden  from  the  foundation 
of  the  world,"  *  CREDO. 

SECRET.  May  this  oblation,  O  God,  we  be. 
seech  thee,  cleanse,  renew,  govern,  and  protect  us. 

P.  COMM.     Calestibus.—Bemg    fed,    O    Lord, 
with  heavenly  dainties,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we 
may  always  hunger  after  them,  as  they  preserve  our 
life.    Thro'. 
Jf  there  be  not  VI.  Sundays   between  the  Epiphany 

and  Septuagesima,  what  remains  are  omitted,  and 

taken  in  between  the  XXIII.  and  the  last  Sunday 

after  Pentecost. 

SEPTUAGESIMA  SUNDAY. 

INTR01T.     jP/.xvii. 

'"FHE  "pangs   of  death,     S^Ircumdcderunt  we  ge- 
and  the  sorrows   of  mitus  mortis,  dolores 

bell  <  have  encompassed  infcrni circumffcderuntme: 
me:  and  in  my  distress  I  et,  in  trilulatione  rnca  in. 
called  upon  the  Lord,  rocavi  Dominum,  ct  ex- 
and  he  heard  my  voice  audivit  de  templo  sancfo 
from  his  holy  temple,  suo  vocem  vneam.  Ps.  Dz- 
Ps.  I  will  love  thee,  O  ligam  te  Domine,  fortitu- 
Lord,  my  strength :  the  do  mea  ;  Dominm  ftrma- 
Lord  is  my  support,  my  mentummeum  et  rcfugium 
refuge,  and  my  deliverer.  m€umf  et  liberator  -meus, 

V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Preces.— Mercifully  hear,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Lord,  the  prayers  of  thy  people:  that 
we  who  are  justly  afflicted  for  our  sins,  may  be  mer- 
cifully delivered  for  the  glory  of  thy  name.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  ix.  24.  and*,  i.— Brethren; 
Know  you  not  that  they  that  run  in  the  race,  all  run 
indeed,  but  one  receiveth  the  prize?  So  run  ye, 
that  you  may  obtain.  And  every  one  that  striveth 


SEPTUAGESIMA  SUNDAY.  105 

for  the  mastery,  refraineth  himself  from  all  things : 
and  they  indeed  that  they  may  receive  a  corruptible 
crown:  but  we  an  incorruptible  one.  I  therefore 
so  run,  not  as  at  an  uncertainty:  I  so  fight,  not  as 
one  beating  the  air :  but  1  chastise  my  body,  and 
bring  it  into  subjection  :  lest  perhaps,  \vhen  1  have 
preached  to  others,  I  myselr  should  become  a  cast- 
away— Chap.  x.  i.  5.  For  1  would  not  have  you 
ignorant,  brethren,  that  our  fathers  were  all  under 
the  cloud,  and  all  passed  through  the  sea.  And  all 
in  Moses  were  baptized  in  a  cloud,  and  in  the  sea, 
and  did  all  eat  the  same  spiritual  food  :  and  all 
drank  the  same  spiritual  drink:  (and  they  drank  of 
the  spiritual  rock  that  followed  them:  and  the  rock 
was  Christ.)  But  with  the  most  of  them  God  was 
not  well  pleased. 

GRAD.  Ps.  ix. — Thou  art  our  timely  help  in 
distress.  Let  all  that  know  thee,  put  their  trust  in 
thee  ;  for  thou  forsakest  not  those  that  seek  thee,  O 
Lcrd.  V.  The  poor  man  will  not  be  forgotten  for 
ever:  the  patience  of  the  poor  man  will  notforever 
be  in  vain.  Arise,  O  Lord,  let  not  man  prevail. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cxxix..— De  prqfundis  clamavi  ad 
te,  Domine;  Domine,  exaudi  vocem  mcaw.  From 
the  deep  have  I  cried  out  to  thee,  O  Lord;  Lord, 
hear  my  voice.  V.  Let  thy  ears  be  attentive  to  the 
prayers  of  thy  servant.  V.'  If  thou  shouldst  observe 
iniquities,  O  Lord  1  Lord,  who  shall  stand  it  ?  But 
with  thee  is  propitiation,  and  because  of  thy  law,  I 
waited  for  thee,  O  Lord. 

From  this  day  till  Ash-Wednesday,  the  Tract  is  said 
on  Sundays  and  Festivals  only. 

(B00ptU  Matt. xx  i.  16.-- At  that  time;  Jesus 
spoke  to  his  disciples  this  parable:  The  kingdom  of 
heaven  is  like  to  a  householder  who  went  out  early  in 
the  morning  to  hire  labourers  into  his  vineyard.  And 
when  he  had  agieed  with  the  labourers  for  a  penny 


106  SEPTUAGESIMA  SUNDAY. 

a  day,  he  sent  them  into  his  vineyard.  And  he  went 
out  about  the  third  hour,  and  saw  others  standing 
idle  in  the  market-place.  And  he  said  to  them :  Go 
you  also  into  my  vineyard,  and  I  will  give  you  what 
shall  be  just.  And  they  went  their  way.  And 
again  he  went  out,  about  the  sixth  and  the  ninth 
hour,  and  did  in  like  manner.  But  about  the  ele- 
venth hour  he  went  out  and  found  others  standing, 
and  he  saith  to  them  :  Why  stand  you  here  all  the 
day  idle?  They  say  to  him:  Because  no  man  hath 
hired  us.  He  saith  to  them :  Go  you  also  into  my 
vineyard.  And  when  evening  was  come,  the  Lord 
of  the  vineyard  said  to  his  steward:  Call  the  labour- 
ers and  pay  them  their  hire,  beginning  from  the  last 
even  to  the  first.  When  therefore  they  were  come, 
that  came  about  the  eleventh  hour,  they  received 
every  man  a  penny.  But  when  the  first  also  came, 
they  thought  that  they  should  have  received  more, 
and  they  likewise  received  every  man  a  penny* 
And  when  they  received  it  they  murmured  against 
the  master  of  the  house,  saying :  These  last  have 
worked  but  one  hour,  and  thou  hast  made  them 
equal  to  us  that  have  borne  the  burden  of  the  day, 
and  the  heats.  But  he  answered  one  of  them,  and 
said:  Friend,  I  do  thee  no  wrong:  didst  thou  not 
agree  with  me  for  a  penny?  Take  what  is  thine,  and 
go  thy  way:  I  will  also  give  to  this  last  even  as  to 
thee.  Or,  is  it  not  lawful  for  me  to  do  what  I  will  ? 
Is  thy  eye  evil,  because  I  am  good  ?  So  shall  the  last 
be  first,  and  the  first  last.  For  many  are  called,  but 
few  chosen.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  31.— It  is  good  to  praise  the 
Lord,  and  sing  to  thy  name,  O  thou  the  Most 
Highl 

SECRET.  Having  received,  O  Lord,  our  offer- 
ings and  prayers,  cleanse  as,  we  beseech  thee,  by 
these  heavenly  mysteries,  and  mercifully  hear  us. 

COMM.    Ps.  31. — Cast  a  favourable  look  on  thy 


5BPTUAGESIMA  SUNDAY.  107 

servant,  and  save  me  by  thy  mercy  ;  let  me  not  be 
disappointed,  O  Lord,  since  I  have  called  upon 
thee. 

P.  COMM.  JWdfes.-.May  thy  faithful,  O  God, 
be  strengthened  by  these  thy  mysteries;  that  re- 
ceiving them,  they  may  still  desire  them;  and  de- 
siring them,  may  eternally  receive  them.  Thro*. 

SEXAGESIMA  SUNDAY. 
1NTR01T.     Ps.  xliii. 

ARISE,  why  sleepest  J?Xurge9  quare  obdor- 
thou,  O  Lord  ?  -L-'  mis,  Domim  ?  Ex- 
Arise  and  cast  us  not  off  urge,  et  nc  repcllas  infi- 
forever?  Why  turnest  nem.  Quarcfadamtuam 
thou  away  thy  face  ?  avert  is  ?  Oblivisceris  tri- 
forgettest  thou  our  dis-  bulationem  nostram  ?  Ad- 
tress  ?  Our  belly  cleaveth  h  tea  it  in  terra  venter  nos- 
to  the  earth :  Arise,  O  tcr  :  Eturge,  Dominc, 
L,ord,  help  and  deliver  udjuva  wos,  et  libcra  nos. 
us.  Ps.  We  have  heard,  Ps.  Deus,  auribus  nqstris 
O  God,  with  our  ears:  aucfivimits  :  Patrcs  ?iostri 
our  fathers  have  related  annuntiaverunt  ?iobis. 
to  us  thy  wonders.  V.  V.  Gloria. 
Glorv. 

COLLECT.     Dem  qul O  God,  who  seestthat 

we  place  no  confidence  in  any  thing  we  do;  merci- 
fully grant  that,  by  the  protection  of  the  Doctor  of 
the  Gentiles,  we  may  be  defended  against  all  ad. 
versitv.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  xi.  19.  33.  and  xii.  i.  9,— Brj. 
thrcn  :  You  gladly  suffer  the  foolish:  whereas  your- 
selves are  wise.  For  you  suffer  if  a  man  bring  you 
into  bondage,  if  a  man  devour  you,  if  a  man  take 
from  you,  if  a  man  he  lifted  up,  if  a  man  strike  you 
on  the  face.  I  speak  according  to  dishonour,  as  if 
we  had  been  weak  in  this  part.  Wherein  if  any  man 
i*  bold  (I  speak  foolishly)  I  am  bold  also.  They  are 
Hebrews;  so  am  I:  They  are  Israelites;  so  am  I. 


'08  SEXAGESJMA  SUNDAY. 

They  are  the  seed  of  Abraham:  so  ami!  They  are 
the  ministers  of  Christ!  (I  speak  as  one  less  wise)  I 
am  more:  in  many  more  lahours,  in  prisons  more 
frequently,  in  stripes  above  measure,  in  death  often. 
Of  the  Jews  five  times  did  I  receive  forty  stripes,save 
one.  Thrice  was  I  beaten  with  rods,  once  I  was 
stoned,  thrice  I  suffered  shipwreck ;  a  night  and  a 
day  I  was  in  the  depth  of  the  sea.  In  journeying 
often,  in  perils  of  water,  in  perils  of  robbers,  in 
perils  from  my  own  nation,  in  perils  from  the  Gen- 
tiles, in  perils  in  the  city,  in  perils  in  the  wilderness, 
in  perils  in  the  sea,  in  perils  from  false  brethren. 
In  labour  and  painfulness,  in  watching  often,  in 
hunger  and  thirst,  in  fasting  often,  in  cold  and  na« 
kedness.  Besides  these  things  that  are  without:  my 
daily  instance,  the  solicitude  for  all  the  churches. 
Who  is  weak,  and  I  am  not  weak?  Who  is  scan- 
dalized,  and  I  am  not  on  fire  ?  If  I  must  needs 
glory  :  I  will  glory  of  the  things  that  concern  my 
infirmity.  The  God  and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  who  is  blessed  for  ever,  knoweth  that  1  lie 
not.  At  Damascus  the  governor  of  the  nation  under 
Aretas  the  king  guarded  the  city  of  the  Damascenes, 
*o  apprehend  me:  and  through  a  window  in  a  bas- 
ket was  I  let  down  by  the  wall,  and  so  escaped  his 
hands.  Chap.  xii.  i.  If  I  must  glory  (it  is  not  expe- 
dient indeed-,  but  I  will  come  to  visions  and  revela* 
riorfs  of  the  Lord.  I  know  a  man  in  Christ,  about 
fourteen  year^  ago,  (whether  in  the  body  I  know 
not,  or  out  of  the  body  I  know  not,  God  knoweih,) 
such  a  one  caught  up  to  the  third  heaven.  And  I 
know  such  a  man  (whether  in  the  body,  or  out  of 
the  body,  I  cannot  tell,  God  knoweth)  how  he 
was  caught  into  paradise  j  and  heard  secret  words, 
which  is  not  granted  to  man  to  utter.  Of  such  a 
one  I  will  glory ;  but  of  myself  I  will  glory  nothing, 
but  in  my  infirmities.  For  even  if  I  would  glorv,  r 
shall  hot  be  foolish:  for  I  shall  say  the  truth,  Bur 


SEXAGES1MA  SUNDAY.  1O<) 

I  forbear,  lest  any  man  should  think  of  me  above 
that  which  he  seeth  in  me,  or  any  thing  he  heareth 
from  me.  And  lest  the  greatness  of  the  revelation 
should  lift  me  up,  there  was  given  me  a  sting  of  my 
flesh,  an  angel  of  Satan,  to  ouffet  me.  For  which 
thing  I  thrice  besought  the  Lord,  that  it  might  de- 
part from  me:  and  he  said  to  me:  My  grace  is  suf- 
ficient for  thee:  for  power  is  made  perfect  in  infir- 
mity. Gladly  therefore  will  I  glory  in  my  infirmities, 
that  the  power  of  Christ  may  dwell  in  me. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxxii.— 'Let  the  Gentiles  know  that 
God  is  thy  name:  that  thoti  art  the  Most  High  over 
all  the  earth.  V.  Make  them  turn  about,  O  my  God, 
like  a  wheel,  and  scatter  them  like  chaff  before  the 
wind. 

TRACT.  Ps.  ibci***C0m*«aviff*j  Domine,  terrain, 
et  co/tturbasti  cam.  Thou  hast  shaken  the  earth,  O 
Lord,  and  made  it  tremble.  K.  Heal  its  wounds, 
for  it  is  shaken.  V.  Make  thy  chosen  people  retire 
from  before  thy  bow,  that  they  may  be  safe. 

(KOjSpCU  Luke  viii.  4.  16. — At  th<it  time': 
When  a  very  great  multitude  was  gathered  together, 
and  hastened  out  of  the  cities  to  meet  Jesus,  tie  spoke  by 
a  similitude.  A  sower  went  out  to  sow  his  seed :  and 
as  he  sowed  some  fell  by  the  way  side,  and  it  was 
trodden  down,  and  the  fowls  of  the  air  devoured  it. 
And  other  some  fell  upon  a  rock ;  and  as  soon  as  it 
was  sprung  up,  it  withered  away  because  it  had  no 
moisture.  And  other  some  fell  among  thorns,  and 
the  thorns  growing  up  with  it,  choked  it.  And 
other  some  tell  upon  good  ground;  and  sprung  up, 
and  yielded  fruit  a  hundred- fold.  Saying  these  things 
he  cried  out:  He  that  hath  ears  to  hear,  let  him 
hear.  And  his  disciples  asked  him  what  this  para- 
ble might  be.  To  whom  he  said  :  To  )ou  if  »- 
given  to  knovvthft  mystery  of  the  kingdom  of  < 
but  to  the  rest  in  parables:  tk.  .!.?y 

K 


110  OUlNgUAGESIMA  SUNDAY. 

not  see,  and  hearing  they  may  not  understand.  Now 
the  parable  is  this;  The  seed  is  the  word  of  God. 
And  they  by  the  way  side,  are  they  that  hear,  then 
the  devil  cometh,  and  taketh  the  word  out  of  their 
hearts,  lest  believing  they  should  be  saved.  Now 
they  upon  the  rock,  are  they  who,  when  they  hear, 
receive  the  word  with  joy :  and  these  have  no  roots; 
who  believe  for  a  while,  and  in  time  of  temptation 
fall  away.  And  that  which  fell  among  thorns,  are 
they  who  have  heard,  and  going  their  way,  are 
choked  with  the  cares  and  the  riches  and  pleasures 
of  this  life,  and  yield  no  fruit.  But  that  on  the 
good  ground  are  they  who  in  a  good  and  perfect 
heart,  hearing  the  word,  keep  it,  and  bring  forth 
fruit  in  patience. 

OFFERT.  Pa.  xvi.— Settle  my  steps  in  thy  paths, 
that  my  feet  may  not  slip  :  bend  thine  ear,  and  hear 
my  words:  display  the  wonders  of  thy  mercy,  O 
Lord,  who  saveth  those  that  hope  in  thee. 

SECRET.  May  the  sacrifice  we  have  offered  to 
tliee,  O  Lord,  always  enliven  us  and  defend  us. 
Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xlii.— I  will  go  up  to  the  altar  of 
God,  to  God,  who  rejoiceth  my  youth. 

P.  COMM.  Supplices.— Grant,  we  humbly  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  those  whom 
thou  refreshest  with  thy  sacraments,  may,  by  a  life 
well  pleasing  to  thee,  worthily  serve  thee.  Thro'. 

QU1NQUAGESIMA  SUNDAY. 
INTROIT.    Ps.  xxx. 

BE  to  me  a  protecting  T^STO  mihi  in  Deurn 
God,  and  a  place  -"  protectorem,  et  in 
of  refuge  to  save  me:  for  locum  refugii,  ut  salvurn 
thou  art  my  strength  me  facias:  quoniam  fir. 
and  refuge ;  and  f©r  the  momentum  meum,  et  re- 
glory  of  thy  name  thou  fugium  meum  <?s  tu ;  ttf 


gUlNQUAGESIMA  SUNDAY,  I  j  I 

thyself  wilt  be  my  guide,  propter  nomen  tuum  dux 
and  wilt  feed  me.  Ps.  mild  eris,  et  ejiutriesme. 
In  thee,  Lord,  have  I  Ps.  In  te,  Doming  spe~ 
hoped,  /et  me  never  be  ravi,  non  confundar  in 
put  to  shame:  by  thy  attrmim;  in  justitia  tua 
justice  deliver  me,  and  libera  me,  et  eripe  me.  V. 
rescue  me.  V.  Glory.  Gloria. 

COLL.  Preces.— Mercifully  hear  our  prayers,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  and  being  freed  from  the 
chains  of  our  sins,  preserve  us  from  all  adversity. 
Thro.  J 

EPISTLE,     i   Cor.  xiii.  i.  14.— -Brethren;  If  I 

speak  with  the  tongues  of  men  and  of  angels,  and 

nave  not  charity,  I  am  become  as  sounding   brass, 

or  a  tinkling  cymbal.     And  if  I  should  have  pro- 

pnecy,    and  should    know   all  mysteries,    and  all 

knowledge:  and  if  I  should  have  all  faith,  so  that  1 

d  remove  mountains,  and  have  not  charity,  I 

am  nothing.   And  if  I  should  distribute  all  my  goods 

to  feed  the  poor,  and  if  I  should  deliver  my  body 

>  burned  and  have  not  charity,  it  profiteth  me 

hmg.     Charity  is  patient,  is  kind:  Charity  en- 

vieth  not,  dealeth  not  perversely;  it  is  not  puffed 

"P,  it  is  not  ambitious,  seeketh  not  her  own,  is  not 

Fn°^     V°Kanger'.  ^kethno  evil,  rejoiceth  not 

m  inmuity,  but   rejoiceth  with  the  truth:  beareth 

Pnrl  nrT'  If     P^    ^    Mn&    llOPeth   a11    things, 

endureth  all  thmgs.  Charity  never  falleth  away: 
whether  prophecies  shall  be  made  void,  or  tongues 
shall  cease,  or  knowledge  shall  be  destroyed.  For 
I  know  m  part,  and  we  prophecy  in' part.  But 
when  that  which  „  perfect  is  come/that  which  is  in 

soot;  I   \  T?i^h?  aVV;ay'     When  *  ^'M  a  child'  £ 

2^rl  ?8/Ch|Jld'    V111^810011    aSa   Child,  I  thought 

£C  S    rBut  KW  \e ft  \  became  a  man»  l  P"t  Wy 
^things  of  a  child.     We  now  see  through  a  glass 

in  a  dark  manner:  but  then  face  to  face.    Now  I 
K  2 


M2  QUlNQUAGESIMA  SUNDAY. 

know  in  part:  but  then  I  shall  know  even  as  I  am 
known.  And  now  there  remain  faith,  hope,  cha- 
rity, these  three  ;  but  the  greatest  of  these  is 
charity. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxiii. — Thou  art  the  God  who  alone 
dost  wonders :  thou  hast  made  known  thy  power 
among  the  Gentiles.  V.  Thou  hast  delivered  thy 
people,  the  children  of  Israel  and  Joseph,  by  the 
strength  of  thy  arm. 

TRACT.  Ps.  xcix.— Jubilate  Deo  omnis  terra  ; 
scrvite  Domino  in  latitia.  Praise  the  Lord,  all  ye 
people  of  the  earth;  serve  the  Lord  with  joy.  V. 
Come  before  him  with  gladness;  fand  know  the 
Lord  is  God.  V.  It  is  he  that  made  us;  we  did  not 
make  ourselves :  we  are  his  people,  and  the  sheep 
of  his  pasture. 

CE>00p0L  Luke  xviii.  31.  43. — At  that  time; 
Jesus  took  unto  him  the  twelve,  and  said  to  them: 
Behold  we  go  up  to  Jerusalem,  and  all  things  shall 
be  accomplished  which  were  written  by  the  pro- 
phets  concerning  the  Son  of  Man.  For  he  shall  be 
delivered  to  the  GentileSj  and  shall  be  mocked,  and 
scourged,  and  spit  upon  :  and  after  they  have 
scourged  him,  they  will  put  him  to  death,  and  the 
third  day  he  shall  rise  again.  And  they  understood 
none  of  these  things,  and  this  word  was  hid  from 
them,  and  they  understood  not  the  things  that  were 
said.  Now  it  came  to  pass,  that  when  he  drew 
nigh  to  Jericho,  a  certain  blind  man  sat  by  the 
way-side,  begging.  And  when  he  heard  the 
multitude  passing  by,  he  asked  what  this  meant. 
And  they  told  him  that  Jesus  of  Nazareth  was  pas- 
sing  by.  And  he  cried  out:  Jesus,  Son  of  David, 
have  mercy  on  me.  And  they  that  went  before, 
rebuked  him,  that  he  should  hold  his  peace.  But 
he  cried  out  much  more:  Son  of  David,  have 
mercy  on  me.  And  Jesus  standing,  commanded 


QUlNQtJAGESlMA  SUNDAY.  113 

him  to  be  brought  unto  him.  And  when  he  was 
come  near,  he  asked  him,  saying:  What  wilt  thou 
that  I  do  to  thee  ?  But  he  said  :  Lord,  that  I  may 
see.  And  Jesus  said  to  him  :  Receive  thy  sight ;  thy 
faith  hath  made  thee  whole.  And  immediately  he 
saw,  and  followed  him,  glorifying  God.  And  all 
the  people,  when  they  saw  it,  gave  praise  to  God, 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.cxviii..-Blessed  art  thou,  OLord, 
teach  me  thy  law:  with  my  lips  have  1  pro. 
nounced  all  the  commandments  of  thy  mouth. 

SECRET.  May  this  offering,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  cleanse  away  our  sins :  and  sanctify  the 
bodies  and  souls  of  thy  servants,  to  prepare  them  for 
worthily  celebrating  this  sacrifice.  Thro', 

CO  MM.  Ps.  Ixxvii.— They  have  eaten  and  were 
filled :  the  Lord  granted  them  their  desire  ;  they 
have  not  been  disappointed. 

P.  COMM.  Qu(£snmus<—'We  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  we  who  have  taken  this  hea- 
venly food,  may  by  it  be  defended  from  all  ad* 
versity. 

ASH-WEDNESDAY. 

'T'HE  ceremony  of  applying  afhes,  in  the  form  ofacrofs, 
to  the  heads  of  the  faithful  on  this  day,  is  a  relick  of 
the  ancient  difcipline  of  the  Church  which  at  the  begin*, 
ning  of  Lent,  fubjected  public  and  fcandalous  fmners  to 
public  and  canonical  penance.  The  priefl,  (having  firft 
heard  their  confeflion,  cloathed  them  with  fackcloth — 
laid  afhes  on  their  heads,  and  fprinkled  them  with  holy 
water)  recited  aloud  over  them  the  J'ewn  Penitential 
Pfalms,  aiTifted  therein  by  all  the  clergy  lying  proftrate  on 
the  ground.  After  the  proceflion,  in  which  they  walked 
bare-foot  in  the  penitential  drefs  above  defcribcd,  they 
were  turned  out  of  the  Church,  not  to  be  again  admitted 
to  aflift  at  the  facred  myitcries,  till  Maundy-Thurfday. 
The  Church  doors  were  then  fhut,  and  the  Mafs  of  the 
faithful  began, 


JT4  ASH-WEDNESDAY. 

Though  public  penances  are  not  fo  frequent  as  they 
formerly  were,  the  Council  of  Trent  exprefsly  orders 
them  for  public  crimes,  Scfs.  xxiv.  c  8.  de  Reform.  And 
the  directions  given  in  the  Roman  Ritual,  de  Sacram.  Penit. 
are:  "  Let  not  the  prieft  absolve  thofe  who  have  given 
public  feandal,  till  they  have  made  public  fatisfaSion, 
and  removed  the  feandal." 

We  are  therefore  to  perform  this  holy  ceremony  with 
an  humble  and  contrite  foul,  with  a  firm  refolution  of 
entering  upon  penitential  practices  in  order  to  punifh  our 
fins,  and  to  fatisfy  for  them  in  a  manner  that  may  bear 
Come  proportion  to  the  enormity  of  our  offences. 

THE  BLESSING  OF  THE  ASHES. 
ANT.TTEAR  us,  O  Lord,  for  thy  mercy  is  kind : 
AX  look  on  us,   O  Lord,   according  to  the 
multitude  of  thy  mercies.  Ps.  Save  me,  OGod:  for 
the  waters  have  reached  my  soul.     V.  Glory. 
ANT.  Hear  us,  $c.  to  Ps. 
The  Lord  be  with  you.  11.  And  with  thy  spirit. 
Let  us  pray. — Omnipotent. 

O  Almighty  and  eternal  God,  spare  those  that 
repent,  shew  mercy  to  those  that  humbly  in- 
treat  thee:  and  vouchsafe  to  send  from  heaven  thy 
holy  angel,  to  •{•  bless,  and  »{«  sanctify  these  ashes, 
that  they  maybe  a  wholesome  remedy  to  all  who 
hnmbly  call  upon  thy  holy  name,  and  conscious  of 
their  sins,  accuse  themselves,  and  deplore  their 
crimes  in  sight  of  thy  divine  Majesty,  or  humbly  and 
earnestly  have  recourse  to  thy  sovereign^  bounty ;  and 
grant,  by  pur  calling  on  thy  most  holy  name,  that 
whoever  shall  be  touched  by  these  ashes  for  the  re- 
mission  of  their  sins,  may  receive  health  of  body,  and 
defence  of  soul.  Thro'. 

^  Let  us  pray. — Deus,  qui  non  mortem. 

OGod,    who  desirest  the  conversion,  and  not 
the  death  of  sinners,  graciously  consider  the 
weakness  of  human  nature,  and  mercifully  vouch, 
safe  to  *J«  bless  these  ashes,  which  we  design  to  re- 


ASH-WEDNESDAY.  H^ 

ceive  on  our  heads,  in  token  of  our  humiliation, 
and  to  obtain  forgiveness :  that  we,  who  know  that 
we  are  but  ashes,  and  must  return  to  dust  because  of 
our  wickedness,  may  obtain,  through  thy  mercy, 
pardon  of  all  our  sins,  and  the  recompence  pro- 
mised to  penitents.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.— Deux,  qui  humiliatione. 

OGod,  who  art  appeased  by  humiliation,  and 
pacified  by  satisfaction,  incline  to  our  prayers 
the  ears  of  thy  mercy;  and  pour  upon  the  heads  of 
thy  servants,  covered  with  these  ashes,  the  grace  of 
thy  blessing;  so  as  both  to  fill  them  with  the  spirit  of 
compunction,  and  to  grant  them  the  effects  of  their 
just  desires,  and  when  granted  to  remain  stable  and 
untouched  for  ever.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray, — Omnipotent 

/^\  Almighty  and  eternal  God,  who  forgavest  the 
\_J  Ninivites,  when  they  did  penance  in  sack- 
cloth  and  ashes:  mercifully  grant  us  so  to  imitate 
their  penance,  that  we  may  obtain  pardon  of  our 
sins.  Thro'.  II.  Amen- 
The  ^Priest  having  sprinkled  the  Ashes  zcith  Holy 

Water,  saying  the  Anthem,  Asperg.es,  &c.   />,  xiii. 

without   the  Psalm,   and  fuming  them  thrice,   re. 

ceives  or  gives   them  to  himself;   then  he  lays  them 

on  the  heads  of  every  one,  saying  to  each  : 

Pr.  Remember,  O  man,  that  thou  art  dust,  and 
shalt  return  to  dust  again, 

In  the  mean  time,  the  following  Anthems  are  sung  by 
the  Choir. 

A  NT.  Let  us  change  our  dress  for  ashes  and  sack, 
cloth  :  let  us  fast  and  weep  in  the  presence  of  the 
Lord;  for  our  God  is  very  merciful  to  forgive  us  our 
sins. 

ANT.  The  priests,  the  ministers  of  the  Lord,  shall 
weep  between  the  porch  and  the  altar,  and  say : 
fcpare,  0  Lord,  O  spare  thy  people,  and  shut  not 
the  mouths  of  those  who  praise  thee,  O  Lord. 


Il6  ASH-WEDNESDAY, 

ANT,  Let  ns  amend  of  the  sins  we  have  com. 
mitted  through  ignorance;  lest  suddenly  overtaken 
by  the  day  of  our  death,  we  seek  for  time  to  do  pe- 
nance, and  be  not  able  to  find  it.*  Look  down  on 
us.  O  Lord,  and  take  pity:  for  we  have  sinned 
against  thee.  V.  Help  us,  O  God  our  Saviour,  and 
deliver  us  for  the  glory  of  thy  name,  O  Lord.* 
Look  down  on  us,  $c.  to  V.  Glory,  $c.  Look 
down  on  us,  $c.  to  V. 

The  Lord  be  with  thee.  R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 
Let  us  pray;— Concede  nobis. 

GRANT  us,  O  Lord,  to  begin  with  holy  fasting 
our  Christian    warfare;    that  being  to  fight 
against  spiritual  wickedness,  we  may  be  aided  there- 
in by  temperance.     Thro'. 

INTROIT.  Wisd.  ix.  Ps.  Ixi. 
npHOU,  O  Lord,  hast  mercy  on  all,  and  hatest 
•*•  none  of  those  things  which  thou  hast  created  ; 
thou  winkest  at  the  sins  of  men,  to  draw  them  to 
repentance,  and  thou  pardonestthem:  because  thou 
art  the  Lord  our  God.  Ps.  Have  mercy  on  me,  O 
God,  have  mercy  on  me  j  for  my  soul  trusteth  in 
thee.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.     Pr&sta,  Domitie.— Grant,  O  Lord, 
that  thy  faithful  may  enter  on  this  solemn  fast  with 
suitable  piety,  and  go  through  it  with  unmolested 
devotion.     Thro1. 
After  the  II.  Collect,  A  cnnctis,  p.  xx.  the  following, 

with  its  Secret  and    P.  Comm.   is  continued  till 

Passion- Sunday. 

III.  COLLECT.  Omnipotent.— O  Almighty  and 
eternal  God,  who  hast  dominion  over  the  living  and 
the  dead,  and  art  merciful  to  all,  whom  thou  know- 
est  will  be  thine  by  faith  and  good  works :  we  hum- 
bly beseech  thee,  that  they,  for  whom  we  have  pro- 
posed to  offer  our  prayers,  whether  this  world  still 
retains  them  in  the  flesh,  or  the  nexj;  world  hath 
already  received  them  divested  of  their  bodies,  oiayg 


ASH-WEDNESDAY.  117 

by  the  clemency  of  thine  own  goodness,  and  the 
intercession  of  thy  saints,  obtain  pardon  and  full 
remission  of  their  sins.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Joel  ii.  12.  19.— Thus  saith  the 
Lord  ;  Be  converted  to  me  with  all  your  heart,  in 
fasting,  in  weeping,  and  in  mourning.  And  rend 
your  hearts,  and  not  your  garments,  and  turn  to  the 
Lord  your  God:  for  he  is  gracious  and  merciful, 
patient  and  rich  in  mercy,  and  ready  to  repent  of  the 
evil.  Who  knovveth  but  he  will  return,  and  for- 
give, and  leave  a  blessing  behind  him,  sacrifice  and 
libation  to'  ihe  Lord  thy  God  ?  Blow  the  trumpet 
in  Sion,  sanctify  a  fast,  call  a  solemn  assembly, 
gather  together  the  people,  sanctify  the  Church, 
assemble  the  ancients,  gather  together  the  little  ones, 
and  them  that  suck  at  the  breasts :  let  the  bride- 
groom go  forth  from  his  bed,  and  the  bride  out  of 
the  bride- chamber.  Between  the  porch  and  the 
altar  the  priests  the  Lord's  ministers  shall  weep, 
and  shall  say:  Spare,  O  Lord,  spare  thy  people: 
and  give  not  thine  inheritance  to  reproach,  that  the 
heathens  should  rule  over  them.  Why  should  they 
say  among  the  nations:  Where  is  their  God  ?  The 
Lord  hath  been  zealous  for  his  land,  and  hath  spared  . 
his  people.  And  the  Lord  answered  and  said  to  his 
people  :  Behold  I  will  send  you  corn,  and  wine,  and 
oil,  you  shall  be  filled  with  them:  and  1  will  no 
more  make  you  a  reproach  among  the  nations,  saith 
the  Lord  Almighty. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ivi. — Have  mercy  on  me,  O  God, 
have  mercy  on  me:  for  my  soul  hath  trusted  in 
thee.  V.  He  hath  stretched  forth  his  hand  from 
heaven,  and  hath  delivered  me :  he  hath  given  up 
to  reproach  those  who  trample  on  me. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cii.  andlxxviii.-rDeal  not  with  us, 
O  Lord,  according  to  our  sins,  which  we  have  com- 
mitted, nor  punish  us  according  to  our  iniquities. 
F.  Remember  not,  O  ]Lord,  our  past  olVences;  le^ 


II 8  ASH-WEDNESDAY. 

thy  mercy  soon  overtake  us,  for  we  are  reduced  to 
the  greatest  misery.  V.  Help  us,  O  God  our  Savi- 
our: and  for  the  glory  of  thy  name  deliver  us,  O 
Lord,  and  for  the  glory  of  thy  name,  pardon  us 
our  sins. 

The  above  Tract  is  said  every  Monday,  Wednesday, 
and  Friday,  till  Wednesday  in  Holy.  Week,  except 
there  be  u  proper  one  appointed. 


Matt.  vi.  16.  2i.— -4*  that  time; 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples :  When  you  fast  be  not  as 
the  hypocrites,  sad.  For  they  disfigure  their  faces, 
that  they  may  appear  unto  men  to  fast.  Amen  I 
say  to  you,  that  they  have  received  their  reward. 
But  thou,  when  thbu  fastest,  anoint  thy  head,  and 
wash  thy  face :  that  thou  appear  not  to  men  to  fast, 
but  to  thy  Father,  who  is  in  secret :  and  thy 
Father,  who  seeth  in  secret,  will  reward  thee. 
Lay  not  up  for  yourselves  treasures  on  earth : 
where  the  rust  and  moth  consume,  and  where 
thieves  break  through  and  steal.  But  lay  up  for 
yourselves  treasures  in  heaven:  where  neither  the 
rust  nor  moth  doth  consume,  and  where  thieves 
do  not  break  through  nor  steal.  For  where  thy 
treasure  is,  there  is  thy  heart  also. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxix.— I  will  extol  thee,  O  Lord, 
because  thou  hast  upholden  me:  nor  hast  thou  let 
my  enemies  triumph  over  me.  O  Lord,  to  thee 
I  cried  out,  aind  thou  didst  heal  me. 

SECRET  Grant,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  be 
duly  prepared  to  present  these  our  offerings,  by 
which  we  celebrate  the  institution  of  this  venerable 
mystery.  Thro1. 

J I.  SECRET.     Ordinary,  p.  xxvii. 

III.  SECRET.  O  God,  to  whom  alone  is  known 
the  number  of  thine  elect  to  be  placed  in  eternal 
bliss:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  by  the  intercession  of 
all  thy  saints,  that  tiie  book  of  predestination  may 


THURSDAY  BEFORE,  &C.  119 

contain  the  names  of  all  those,  whom  we  have  un- 
dertaken to  pray  for,  as  well  as  those  of  all  the 
faithful.  Thro'. 

PREFACE.  Qui  corporaUjejitm^  p.  xxx. 
COMM.  Ps.  i.— He  that'  meditatelh  night   and 
day  on  the  law  of  the  Lord  shall  yield  his  fruit  in 
due  season. 

P.  COMM.  Percepta.—  May  the  mysteries  we 
have  received,  O  Lord,  afford  us  help,  that  our 
fasting  may  be  acceptable  to  thee,  and  become 
a  remedy  to  us,  Thro'. 

II.  P.  COMM.  Miivdd.— -Ordinary  p  xliv 
1H.  P.  COMM.  P?m//c^.-.May  the  mysteries 
5  have  received,  purify  us,  we  beseech  thee  O 
Almighty  and  merciful  God:  and  grant,  by  the  in- 
tercession  of  all  thy  saints,  that  this  thy  sacrament 
may  not  increase  our  guilt  to  punishment,  butbea 
means  of  obtaining  pardon  in  order  to  salvation  • 
may  it  wash  away  sin,  strengthen  our  frailty,  secure 
us  against  the  dangers  of  the  world  5  and  procure 
forgiveness  for  all  the  faithful  both  living  and  dead 
Ihro\ 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 
£  /"'Prayer,  Inclinantes.  over  the  people. 

'ULLY  look  down  upon  us,  O  Lord, 


I  ml  ll   up1-"'    u»j    yj  L/ur<l, 

J-f*  bowing  down  before  thy  divine  Majesty,  that 
they  who  have  been  refreshed  with  thy  divine  mys- 
teries, may  always  be  supported  by  thy  heavenly- 
aid.  Thro*. 

THURSDAY  before  the  I.  Sunday  in  Lent 

INTR01T.     Ps.  liv. 
\I/  HEN  I  cried  out  to  the  Lord,  he  heard  mv 

*  .  voice  against  those  who  were  coming  upnii 
me:  he  that  is  before  all  ages  and  will  be  for  ever, 
Humbled  them:  cast  thy  care  on  the  Lord,  and  he 
will  feed  thee.  K.  Hear,  O  God,  my  praver,  an  j 


1*0     THURSDAY  BEFORE  I.  SUNDAY  IN    LENT. 

ttespise  not  my  petition:  hearken  to  me,  and  graci- 
ously hear  me.     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  VMS,  qui  culpa.—O  God,  who  by 
sin  art  offended,  and  pacified  by  repentance,  merci- 
fully regard  the  prayers  of  thy  people,  who  make 
supplication  to  thee:  and  turn  away  the  scourges  of 
thy  anger,  which  we  deserve  for  our  sins.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Isaias  xxxviii.  i.  6.— .In  those  days  Eze- 
chias  was  sick  even  to  death,  and  Isaias  the  son  of 
Amos  the  prophet  came  unto  him,  and  said  to  him: 
Thus  saith  the  Lord :  Take  order  with  thy  house  for 
thou  shalt  die,  and  not  live.  And  Ezechias  turned  Jus 
face  towards  the  wall,  and  prayed  to  the  Lord,  and 
said  :  1  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  remember  how  1  have 
walked  before  thee  in  truth,  and  with  a  perfect  heart, 
and  have  done  that  which  is  good  in  thy  sight.  And 
Ezechias  wept  with  great  weeping.  And  the  word  of 
the  Lord  came  to  Isaias,  saying :  Go  and  say  to 
Ezechias:  Thus  saith  the  Lord  the  God  of  David 
thy  father:  I  have  heard  thy  prayer,  and  i  have  seen 
thy  tears:  behold  I  will  add  to  thy  days  fifteen  years; 
And  1  will  deliver  thee  and  this  city  out  ofthehands 
of  the  king  of  the  Assyrian?,  and  I  will  protect  it, 
saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

GRAD.  Ps.  liv.— Cast  thy  care  on  the  Lord,  and 
he  will  feed  thee.  V.  When  I  cried  out  to  the  Lord, 
he  heard  me,  and  defended  me  against  those  that 
were  coming  upon  me. 

dDQ0p£U  Matt.  viii.  from  *  in  ^Gospel  of  the 
III.  Sunday  after  Epiphany,  p.  99. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxiv.— To  thee,  O  Lord,  have  I 
raised  up  my  soul :  my  God,  in  thee  is  my  trust,  let 
me  not  be  confounded;  neither  let  my  enemies  scoff 
at  me;  for  none,  who  look  for  thee,  shall  be  dis- 
appointed. 

SECRET.  Hear  us,  ()  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
and  being  appeased  by  these  offerings,  grant  they 


FRIDAY  BEFORE  THE,   &C.  121 

may  increase  our  devotion,  and  advance  our  salva- 
tion. Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  1.— Thou  wilt  accept  a  sacrifice  of 
righteousness,  oblations,  and  whole  burnt-offerings 
on  thy  altar,  O  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Ofcsa's.— Having  partaken  of  the 
blessings  of  these  heavenly  mysteries,  we  humbly 
beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  by  them  we  may 
receive  both  the  sacrament  and  eternal  salvation. 
Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Parce.—  Spare,  O  Lord,  spare  thy 
people:  that  having  been  justly  chastised,  they  may 
find  comfort  in  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

FRIDAY  before  the  I.  Sunday  in  Lent. 

INTR01T.     Ps.  xxix. 

nnTIE  Lord  hath  heard  me,  and  taken  pity  on  me: 
•*•  the  Lord  hath  become  my  helper.  Ps.  I  will 
extol  thee,  O  Lord,  because  thou  hast  protected 
me ;  neither  hast  thou  let  my  enemies  triumph  over 
me.  I7.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Inchoata  jejunia.— Graciously  fa- 
cour  us,  O  Lord,  we  bese'ech  thee,  in  the  fast  we 
have  undertaken  ;  that  what  we  observe  outwardly, 
we  may  perform  with  sincere  minds.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Is.  Iviii.  i.  y.—Thussaith  the  Lord  God; 
Crv,  cease  not,  lift  up  thy  voice  like  a  trumpet, 
and  shew  my  people  their  wicked  doings,  and  the 
"house  of  Jacob  their  sins.  For  they  seek  me  from 
day  to  day,  and  desire  to  knowT  my  wrays,  as  a  nation 
that  hath  done  justice,  and  hath  not  forsaken  the 
judgment  of  their  God  :  they  ask  of  me  the  judg- 
ments of  justice  :  they  are  willing  to  approach  to 
God.  Why  have  we  fasted,  and  thou  hast  not  re- 
garded?  why  have  we  humbled  our  souls,  and  thoa 
hast  not  taken  notice?  Behold,  in  the  day  of  your 
JLc 


122  FRIDAY  BEFORE  THE 

fast,  your  own  will  is  found,  and  you  exact  of  all 
your  debtors.  Behold  you  fast  for  debates  and 
strife,  and  strike  with  the  fist  wickedly.  Do  not 
fast  as  you  have  done  until  this  day,  to  make  your 
cry  to  be  heard  on  high.  Is  this  such  a  fast  as  I 
have  chosen,  for  a  man  to  afflict  his  soul  for  a  day  ? 
is  this  it,  to  wind  his  head  about  like  a  circle,  and 
to  spread  sackcloth  and  ashes  ?  wilt  thou  call  this  a 
fast,  and  a  day  acceptable  to  the  Lord  ?  Is  not  this 
rather  the  fast  that  I  have  chosen  ?  loose  the  bands  of 
wickedness,  undo  the  bundles  that  oppress,  let  them 
that  are  broken  go  free,  and  break  asunder  every 
burden.  Deal  thy  bread  to  the  hungry,  and  bring 
the  needy  and  the  harbourless  into  thy  house : 
when  thou  shalt  see  one  naked,  cover  him,  and 
despise  not  thy  own  flesh.  Then  shall  thy  light 
break  forth  as  the  morning,  and  thy  health  shall 
speedily  arise,  and  thy  justice  shall  go  before  thy 
face,  and  the  glory  of  the  Lord  shall  gather  thee  up. 
Then  shalt  thou  call,  and  the  Lord  shall  hear:  thou 
shalt  cry,  and  he  shall  say ;  Here  I  am,  for  I  the 
Lord  thy  God  am  merciful. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxvi. — One  thing  have!  asked  of  the 
Lord,  and  that  I  will  continue  to  ask,  that  I  may 
dwell  in  the  house  of  the  Lord.  V.  That  I  may 
contemplate  the  beauty  of  the  Lord,  and  be  pro» 
tected  in  his  holy  temple. 

TRACT.     Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  p.  1 1 7. 

CBOSfpCU  Matt.  v.  43.  48.  vi.  i.  4.—  At  that 
time ;  Jesut  said  to  his  disciples  ;  You  have  heard  that 
it  hath. been  said:  Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbour, 
and  hate  thy  enemy.  But  I  say  to  you,  love  your 
enemies,  do  good  to  them  that  hate  you :  and  pray 
for  them  that  persecute  and  calumniate  you:  that 
yon  may  be  the  children  ot  your  Father,  who  is  in 
heaven, \vrio  maketh  his  sun  to  rise  upon  the  good 
and  bad,  and  raineth  upon  the  just  and  unjust.  For 


I.  SUNDAY  JN  LENT.  123 

if  you  love  them  tluit  love  you,  what  reward  shall 
you  have  ?  do  not  even  the  publicans  the  same  ? 
And  if  you  salute  your  brethren  only,  what  do  you 
do  more  ?  do  not  also  the  heathens  the  same . 
Be  you  therefore  perfect,  as  also  your  heavenly  Fa- 
ther is  perfect.  Chap.  vi.  Take  heed  that  you  do 
not  your  justice  before  men,  to  be  seen  by  them  ; 
otherwise  you  shall  not  have  a  reward  of  your  Father 
who  is  in  heaven.  Therefore  when  thou  dost  an 
alms  deed,  sound  not  a  trumpet  before  thee,  as  the 
hypocrites  do  in  the  synagogues  and  in  the  streets, 
that  they  may  be  honoured  by  men.  Amen  I  say  to 
you,  they  have  received  their  reward.  But  when 
thou  dost  alms,  let  not  thy  left  hand  know  what  thy 
right  hand  doth.  That  thy  alms  may  be  in  secret, 
and  thv  Father  who  seeth  in  secret  will  repay  thee. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxvlii.— Preserve  my  life,  O  Lord, 
according  to  thy  promise,  that  I  may  know  thy 
commandments. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  sacrifice  we  offer  in  this  holy  time  of  Lent, 
may  render  our  souls  acceptable  to  thee,  and  make 
us  more  ready  in  the  practice  of  fasting.  Thro*. 

CO  MM.  Ps.  ii.— Serve  the  Lord  with  fear,  and 
rejoice  in  him  with  trembling  :  embrace  instructions, 
lest  yon  perish  from  the  right  way. 

P.  COMM.  Spiritumnobis.  -Give us,  O  Lord,  the 
spirit  of  thy  charity,  -that  thou  mayest,  by  thy  mer- 
cy, make  those  unanimous,  whom  thou  hast  fed 
with  one  and  the  same  heavenly  bread.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.     Tucre  Domine.... Defend,    O   Lord, 
thy  people,  and  mercifully  cleanse  them  from   all 
their  sins:  for  no  misfortune  can  hurt  them,  if  no 
wickedness  rule  over  them.    Thro. 
La 


C     "4     ) 

SATURDAY  before  the  T.  Sunday  in  Lent. 
The  Introit,  Gradual,  Tract,  Offertory,  and  Commu- 
nion, as  in  the  foregoing  Mass,  />.  i  21,  4c. 

COLLECT.  Adesto  Domine.... Give  ear,  OLord, 
to  our  prayers,  and  grant  that  we  may,  with  true 
devotion,  observe  this  solemn  fast,  which  was 
wholesomely  instituted  for  giving  health  to  both  our 
souls  and  bodies.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Isaias  Iviii.  9.  14.—  Thus  saith  the  Lord 
God:  If  thou  wilt  take  away  the  chain  out  of  the 
midst  of  thee,  and  cease  to  stretch  out  the  finger, 
and  to  speak  that  which  is  guod  for  nothing.  When 
thou  shalt  pour  out  thy  soul  to  the  hungry,  and  shalt 
satisfy  the  afflicted  soul,  then  shall  thy  light  rise  up 
in  darkness,  and  thy  darkness  shall  be  as  the  noon- 
day. And  the  Lord  will  give  thee  rest  continually, 
and  will  fill  thy  soul  with  brightness,  and  deliver  thy 
bones,  and  thou  shalt  be  like  a  watered  garden,  and 
like  a  fountain  of  water,  whose  waters  shall  not 
fail.  And  the  places  that  have  been  desolate  for 
ages,  shall  be  built  in  thee  :  thou  shalt  raise  up  the 
foundations  of  generation  and  generation  :  and  thou 
shalt  be  called  the  repairer  of  the  fences,  turning  the 
paths  into  rest.  If  thou  turn  away  thy  foot  from  the 
sabbath,  from  doing  thy  own  will  in  thy  holy  day, 
and  call  the  sabbath  delightful,  and  the  holy  of  the 
Lord  glorious,  and  glorify  him  whilst  thou  dost  not 
thy  own  ways,  and  thy  own  will  is  not  found,  to 
speak  a  word:  Then  shalt  thou  be  delighted  in  the 
Lord,  and  I- will  lift  thee  up  above  the  high  places 
of  the  earth,  and  will  feed  thee  with  the  inheritance 
of  Jacob  thy  father-  For  the  mouth  of  the  Lord 
hath  spoken  it. 

<li500pel.  Mark  vi.  47*  $6.~At  thai  time  ; 
When  it  was  late,  the  ship  was  in  the  midst  of  the 
sea,  and  he  alone  on  the  land.  And  seeing  them 
labouring  in  rowing  (for  the  wind  was  against  them) 


SATURDAY  BEFORE  I.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT.   125 

and  about  the  fourth  watch  of  the  night  he  cometh 
to  them  walking  upon  the  sea,  and  he  would  have 
passed  by  them  But  they  seeing  him  walking 
upon  the  sea,  thought  it  was  an  apparition,  and 
they  cried  out.  For  they  all  saw  him,  and  were 
troubled*  And  immediately  he  spoke  with  them, 
and  said  to  them  :  Have  a  good  heart,  it  is  I,  fear 
ye  not-  And  he  went  up  to  them  into  the 
ship,  and  the  wind  ceased.  And  they  were  far 
more  astonished  within  themselves;  for  they  under- 
stood not  concerning  the  loaves:  for  their  heart 
was  blinded.  And  when  they  had  passed  over,  they 
came  into  the  land  of  Genesareth,  and  set  to  the 
shore.  And  when  they  were  gone  out  of  the  ship, 
immediately  they  knew  him  ;  and  running  through 
that  whole  country,  they  began  to  carry  about  in 
beds  those  that  were  sick,  where  they  heard  he  was. 
And  whithersoever  he  entered,  into  towns,  or  into 
villages,  or  cities,  they  laid  the  sick  in  the  streets, 
and  besought  him  that  they  might  touch  but  the  hem 
of  his  garment ;  and  as  many  as  touched  him  were 
made  whole* 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  sacrifice,  by 
the  immolation  of  which  thou  vouchsafest  to  be  ap- 
peased j  and  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  being 
purified  by  its  efficacy,  we  may  otter  the  affections 
of  our  mind  well  pleasing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Calestis.— Being  strengthened,  O 
Lord,  by  the  gift  of  a  heavenly  life,  we  beseech  thee, 
that  what  is  a  mystery  to  us  in  this  life,  may  help  us 
to  obtain  that  which  is  eternal.  Thro*. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 
PRAYER.     J«/t/c*.— May  thy  faithful,  O  God, 
be  strengthened    by   thy  gifts;    that,  by  receiving 
them,  they  may  ever  hunger  after  them,  and  him* 
gering  after  them,  they  may  have  their  desires  satis- 
fied in  the  everlasting  possession  of  them.  Thro'. 
L  3 


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I.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT. 
INTROIT.    Ps.  xc. 

HE  shall  cry  to  me,  TNwcabit  me,  ret  ego 
and  I  will  hear  him :  exaudiam  cum :  Eri- 
I  will  rescue  nim,  and  piarn  eum,  et  glorificabo 
glorify  him:  I  will  fill  eum :  Lougitudine  die- 
him  with  length  of  days,  rum  adimplebo  eum,-— 
Ps.  He  that  confideth  in  Ps.  90.  Qui  habitat  in 
the  aid  of  the  Most  High,  adjutorio  altissimi,  in  pro- 
shall  abide  under  the  tectione  Dei  cocli  comma* 
protection  of  the  God  of  ratibur. 
heaven.  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dem  qui.—O  God,  who  purifiest 
thy  Church  by  the  yearly  observation  of  Lent : 
grant,  that  what  thy  children  endeavour  to  obtain  of 
thee  by  abstinence,  they  may  put  in  execution  by 
good  works.  Thro. 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  vi.  i.  io.~Brethreni  We  ex- 
hort you,  that  you  receive  not  the  grace  of  God  in 
Vuin.  For  he  saith :  "  In  an  acceptable  time  have  I 
heard  thee;  and  in  the  day  of  salvation  have  I  helped 
thee."  Behold,  now  is  the  acceptable  time:  be- 
hold, now  is  the  day  of  salvation.  Giving  no  of- 
fence to  any  man,  that  our  ministry  be  not  blamed  ; 
but  in  a!l  things  let  us  exhibit  ourselves  as  the  mini- 
sters  of  God,  'in  much  patience,  ia  tribulation,  in 
necessities,  in  distresses,  in  stripes,  in  prison,  in 
seditions,  in  labours,  in  watchings,  in  fastings,  in 
chastity,  in  knowledge,  in  long-suffering,  in  sweet- 
ness, in  the  Holy  Ghost,  in  charity  unfeigned,  in 
the  word  of  ,ruth,  in  the  power  of  God  ;  by  the  ar- 
mour of  justice  on  the  right-hand,  and  on  the  left: 
by  honour, and  dishonour:  by  evil  report,  and  good 
report:  as  deceivers,  and  yet  true:  as  unknown, 
and  yet :  known  :  as  dying,  and  behold  we  live;  as 
chastised,  and  not  killed:  as  sorrowful,  yet  always 
rejoicing  ;  as  needy,  yet  enriching  many ;  as  having 
nothing,  and  possessing  all  things. 


I.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT.  127 

GRAD.  Ps.  xc. — God  has  given  his  angels  a 
charge  over  thec,  to  guard  thee  in  all  thy  ways.  F. 
They  shall  bear  thee  up  on  their  hands,  lest  at  any 
time  thou  hit  thy  foot  against  a  stone. 

TRACT.  Ps.  xc.— -Qui  habitat   in  adjutorio  altis. 
simi,   in  protect ione  Dei  call  commora'bitur.     lie  that 
confideth  in  the  aid  of  the  Most  High,  shall  abide 
under  the  protection  of  the  God  of  heaven.     V.  He 
shall  say  to  the  Lord,  thou  art  my  protector  and  my 
refuge;  Fie  is  my  God,  in  him  will  I  hope.     V.  For 
it  is  he  who  -hath  delivered  me  from  the  snare  of 
those  that  hunted  me:  and  from  their  threats.   V.  He 
shall  cover  thee  with  his  shoulder:  and  thou  shalt 
hope  under  his  wing.     V.   His   truth  shall  compass 
thee  with  a  shield  :  thou  shalt  not  fear  the  terrors  of 
the  night.     K,  Nor  the  arrow  flying  by  day,  nor  the 
mischief  stalking  in  the  dark,  nor  a  fall,"  nor  the 
noon-day  devil.     V.  A  thousand  shall   fall  on   thy 
side,  and  ten  thousand  on  thy  right  hand  ;    But  evil 
shall  not  approach  thee.     V.   For  he  hath  given  his 
angels  charge  over  thee,  to  guard  thee   in  all    thy 
ways.     V.  They  shall  bear  thee  upon  their  hands, 
lest  at  any  time  thou  hit  thy  foot  against  a  stone.  V. 
Thou  shalt  tread  on  the  asp  and  the  basilisk  :  thou 
shirt  trample  on  the  lion  and  the  dragon.  V.  Since 
he  hath  hoped  in  me,  I  will  deliver  him  ;  I  will  pro- 
tect him,  since  he  hath  known  my  name.     He  shall 
call  upon  me,  and. I  will  hear  him :  I  am  with  him 
in  distress.     V.  I  will  rescue  him,  and  glorify  him  : 
I  will  fill  him  with  length  of  days,  and  shew  him 
my  salvation. 

(BOSptU  Matt.  iv.  i.  ii.— .4*  that  time:  Jesus 
was  led  by  the  spirit  into  the  desart,  to  be  tempted 
by  the  Devil.  And  when  he  had  fasted  forty  days 
and  forty  nights,  he  was  afterwards  hungry.  And 
the  tempter  coming,  said  to  him;  If  thou  be  the 
Son  of  God,  command  that  these  stones  be  made 
bread.  But  he  answered  and  said:  It  is  written, 


123  MONDAY  IN  THE 

;<  Not  by  bread  alone  doth  man  live,  but  by  every 
woid  that  proceedeth  out  of  the  mouth  of  God." 
Then  the  Devil  took  him  into  the  holy  city,  and  set 
him  upon  the  pinnacle  of  the  temple,  and  said  to 
him:  If  thou*  be  the  Son  of  God,  cast  thyself  down; 
for  it  is  written :  "  He  hath  given  his  angels  charge 
over  thee,  and  on  their  hands  shall  they  bear  thee  up, 
lest  perhaps  thou  dash  thy  foot  against  a  stone." 
Jesus  said  to  him,  it  is  written  again,  "Thou  shalt 
not  tempt  the  Lord  thy  God."  Again  the  Devil  took 
him  up  into  a  very  high  mountain,  and  shewed  him 
all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world,  and  the  glory  of 
them,  and  said  to  him  :  All  these  will  I  give  thee, 
if  thou  wiit  fall  down  and  adore  me.  Then  Jesus 
said  to  him :  Begone,  Satan,  for  it  is  written  :  "  The 
Lord  thy  God  thou  shalt  adore,  and  him  only  shalt 
thou  serve."  Then  the  devil  left  him;  and  behold 
angels  came  and  ministered  to  him."  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xc.— The  Lord  shall  cover  thee 
with  his  shoulders,  and  thou  shalt  hope  under  his 
Wings;  his  truth  shall  compass  thee  with  a  shield. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  in  the  most 
solemn  manner,  this  sacrifice  at  the  beginning  of 
Lent,  humblv  beseeching  thee,  that  as  we  retrench 
from  the  food  of  our  bodies,  we  may  also  refrain 
from  all  noxious  pleasures.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Fs.  xc. — The  Lord  shall  cover  thee 
with  his  shoulders,  and  thou  shalt  hope  under  his 
wings :  his  truth  shall  compass  thee  with  a  shield. 

P.  COMM.  Tul  nos. — May  the  holy  oblation,  O 
Lord,  of  thy  sacrament,  give  us  a  new  life,  that,  by 
laying  aside  the  old  man,  it  may  bring  us  to  the 
participation  of  this  saving  mystery.  Thro'. 


A 


MONDAY,    I.  WEEK  IN  LENT. 

INTROIT.     Ps.  cxxii, 

S  the  eyes  of  the  servants  are  on  the  hands  of 
their  masters,  so  are  our  eyes  on  the  Lord  our 


I.  WEEK  OF  LJiNT.  129 

God,  until  he  have  mercy  on  us:  have  mercy  on  us, 

0  Lord,  have  mercy  on  us.     Ps.  To  thee  have  I 
lifted  up  my  eyes,  thou  that  dwellest  in  the  hea- 
vens.    V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Convene.— Convert  us,  O  God  our 
Saviour,  and  instruct  our  minds  with  thy  heavenly 
doctrine,  that  this  fast  of  Lent  may  be  beneficial  to 
us.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Ezek.  xxxiv.  1 1 .  1 6—  Thus  saith  the  Lord 
God  i  Behold  I  myself  will  seek  my  sheep,  and  will 
visit  them.  As  the  shepherd  visiteth  his  flock,  in  the 
day  when  he  shall  he  in  the  midst  of  his  sheep  that  ' 
were  scattered  :  so  will  I  visit  my  sheep,  and  will 
deliver  them  out  of  all  the  places  where  they  have 
been  scattered  in  the  cloudy  and  dark  day.  And  t 
will  bring  them  out  from  the  peoples,  and  will  ga- 
ther them  out  of  the  countries,  and  will  bring  them 
to  their  own  land  ;  and  I  will  feed  them  in  the 
mountains  of  Israel,  by  the  rivers,  and  in  all  the  ha- 
bitations of  the  land  :  1  will  feed  them  in  the  most 
fruitful  pastures,  and  their  pastures  shall  be  in  the 
high  mountains  of  Israel:  there  shall  they  rest  on  the 
green  grass,  and  be  fed  in  fat  pastures  upon  the 
mountains  of  Israel.  1  will  feed  my  sheep  :  and  I 
will  cause  them  to  lie  down,  saith  the  Lord  God. 

1  will  seek  that  which  was  lost:  and  that  which  was 
driven  away,  I  will  bring  again:  and  I  will  bind  up 
that  which  was  broken,  and  1  will  strengthen  that 
which  was  weak,  and  that  which  was  fat  and  strong 
I  will  preserve:  and  I  will  feed  them  in  judgment, 
sat  h  the  Lord  Almighty. 

GRAD.  Pa.  Ixxxiii. — Cast  an  eye  upon  us,  O 
God,  our  Protector,  look  down  upon  thy  servants, 
V.  O  Lord  God  of  armies,  hear  the  prayers  of  thy 
servants. 

TRACT.     Ps.  cii.     Deal  not,  &c.  p.  1 17. 

Matt.  xxv.  31. — At  that   time:  Jesus 


'3°  MONIUY  IN  THE,  &C. 

said  to  his  disciples:  When  the  Son  of  Man  shall 
com*  in  his  majesty,  and  all  the  angels  with  him, 
then  shall  he  sit  upon  the  seat  of  his  majesty.  And 
all  nations  shajl  be  gathered  together  before  him, 
and  he  shall  separate  them  one  from  another,  as  the 
shepherd  separateth  the  sheep  from  the  goats :  and 
he  shall  set  the  sheep  on  his  right  hand,  but  the  goats 
on  his  left.  Then  shall  the  king  say  to  them  that 
shall  be  on  his  right  hand;  Come,  ye  blessed  of  my 
Father,  possess  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you  from 
the  foundation  of  the  world.  For  I  was  hungry, 
I  and  you  gave  me  to  eat :  I  was  thirsty,  and  you  gave 
me  to  drink:  I  was  a  stranger,  and  you  took  me 
in :  naked,  and  you  cloathed  me ;  sick,  and  you  vi- 
sited me :  I  was  in  prison,  and  you  came  to  me. 
Then  shall  the  just  answer  him,  saying;  Lord,  when 
did  we  see  thee  hungry,  and  fed  thee ;  thirsty,  and 
gave  thee  drink  ?  And  when  did  we  see  thee  a 
stranger,  and  took  thee  in:  or  naked,  and  cloathed 
thee  ?  Or  when  did  we  see  thee  sick  or  in  prison,  and 
came  to  thee  ?  And  the  king  answering  shall  say  to 
them :  Amen  I  say  to  you,  as  long  as  you  have  done 
it  to  one  of  these  my  least  brethren,  you  did  it  to 
me.  Then  skall  he  say  to  them  also  that  shall  be 
on  his  left  hand :  Depart  from  me,  you  cursed,  in- 
to everlasting  fire,  which  was  prepared  for  the  devil 
and  his  angels.  For  I  was  hungry,  and  you  gave  me 
not  to  eat ;  I  was  thirsty,  and  you  gave  me  not  to 
drink.  I  was  a  stranger,  and  you  took  me  not  in  ; 
naked,  and  you  cloathed  me  not  j  sick,  and  in  pri- 
son, and  you  did  not  visit  me.  Then  shall  they 
also  answer  him,  saying:  Lord,  when  did  we  see 
thee  hungry,  or  thirsty,  or  a  stranger,  or  naked,  or 
sick,  or  in  prison,  and  did  not  minister  to  thee? 
Then  he  shall  answer  them,  saying;  Amen  I  say  to 
you,  as  long  as  you  did  it  not  to  one  of  these  least 
ones,  neither  did  you  it  to  me.  And  these  sha.l  go 


TUESDAY  IN  TH£,   &C.  13! 

into  everlasting  punishment,  but  the  just  into  life 
everlasting. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxviii. — I  will  lift  up  my  eyes,  and 
consider  thy  wonders,  O  Lord,  that  thou  mayest 
teach  me  thy  law  ;  give  me  understanding,  and  I 
will  learn  thy  commandments. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
have  made,  and  cleanse  us  from  the  stains  of  our 
sins.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt.  xxv.~ Verily,  I  say  to  you  :  What 
you  have  done  to  one  of  the  least  of  mine,  you  have 
done  to  me:  come,  ye  blessed  of  my  Father,  take 
possession  of  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  the 
beginning  of  the  world. 

P.  COMM.  Salutaris.— Being  filled,  O  Lord, 
by  the  participation  of  thy  saving  mysteries,  we 
humbly  beseech  thee,  that  as  we  rejoice  in  the  taste 
thereof,  we  may  be  renewed  by  their  effects.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Absolve.—- Loosen,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  the  bonds  of  our  sins;  and  mercifufly 
turn  away  from  us  whatever  we  deserve  for  them. 
Thro'. 

TUESDAY. 
INTR01T.     Ps.  Ixxxix. 

rPHOU,  O  Lord,  hast  been  our  refuge  from  gene- 
A  ration  to  generation:  thou  art  from  all  eternity, 
and  wilt  he  throughout  all  ages.  Ps.  Before  the 
mountains  were  made,  and  before  the  globe  of  the 
earth  was  formed,  thou  art  God  from  all  eternity 
and  throughout  all  ages.  K.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Respice. — Look  down,  O  Lord,  on 
thy  children,  and  grant  that,  while  \ve  chastise  our- 
selves by  mortifying  the  flesh,  our  minds  may  be  in- 
flamed with  the  love  and  desire  of  thee.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  J5.lv.  6.  ii. — In  those  days:  Isaias 
the  prophet  spake,  sayi/ig  ;  Seek  ye  the  Lord  while 


*32  TUESDAY  IN  THE,   &C. 

be  may  be  found,  call  upon  him  while  he  is  near. 
Let  the  wicked  forsake  his  way,  and  the  un- 
just man  his  thoughts,  and  let  him  return  to  the 
Lord,  and  he  will  have  mercy  on  him  ;  and  to  our 
God,  for  he%  is  bountiful  to  forgive. '  For  my 
thoughts  are  not  your  thoughts,  nor  your  ways  my 
ways,  saith  the  Lord.  For  as  the  heavens  are  ex- 
alted  above  the  earth,  so  are  my  ways  exalted  above 
your  ways,  and  my  thoughts  above  your  thoughts. 
And  as  the  rain  and  the  snow  come  down  from  hea- 
ven, and  return  no  more  thither,  but  soak  the  earth 
and  water  it,  and  make  it  to  spring,  and  give  seed 
to  the  sower,  and  bread  to  the  eater;  so  shall  my 
word  be,  which  shall  go  forth  from  my  mouth  ;  it 
shall  not  return  to  me  void,  but  it  shall  do  what- 
soever  I  please,  and  shall  prosper  in  the  things  for 
which  I  sent  it,  saith  the  Lord  A/m>g/ity. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxl — Let  my  prayer  ascend  like 
incense  in  thy  sight,  OLord.  V.  And  let  the  lifting 
op  my  hands  be  to  thee  like  the  evening  sacrifice. 

(BOgpCL  Matt.  xxi.  10.  17.— Xf  that  time  : 
When  he  was  come  into  Jerusalem,  the  whole  city 
was  moved,  saying;  Who  is  this?  And  the  people 
said:  This  is  Jesus  the  prophet,  from  Nazareth  of 
Galilee.  And  Jesus  went  into  the  temple  of  God, 
and  cast  out  ail  them  that  sold  and  bought  in  the 
temple,  and  overthrew  the  tables  of  the  money- 
changers, and  the  chairs  of  them  that  sold  doves  i 
and  he  saith  to  them  :  It  is  written,  "  My  house  shall 
be  called  the  house  of  prayer  5  but  you  have  made 
it  a  den  of  thieves."  And  the  blind  and  the  lame 
came  to  him  in  the  temple. ;  and  he  healed  them. 
And  when  the  chief  priests  and  scribes  ?aw  the  won- 
derful things  that  he  did,  and  the  children  crying  in 
the  temple,  and  saying:  "  Hosanna  to  the  son  of 
David,"  ihc-y  were  moved  with  indignation,  and 
said  to  him.  Hearest  thou  what  these  sa>  ?  And  Je- 


EMBFR-WEDNESDAY.  133 

sn  s  said  to  them :  Yen,  have  you  never  read  :  "  Out 
of  the  mouths  of  infants  and  of"  sucklings  thou  hast 
perfected  praise  ?"  And  leaving  them  he  went  out 
of  the  city  into  Bethania,  and  remained  there. 

OFFBRT.  P*.  xxx.— In  thee,  O  Lord,  have  I 
hoped;  I  have  said  :  Thou  art  my  God,  my  life  is 
in  thv  hands. 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  with  the  offer, 
ings  we  have  made,  and  defend  us  from  all  danger. 
Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  iv.— -When  I  called  on  thee,  thou 
didst  hear  me,  O  my  just  God:  thou  didst  assist  me 
in  tribulation :  have  mercy  on  me,  O  God,  and  gra~ 
ciously  hear  my  prayer. 

P.  COMM.  Quasujnus. — We  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  we  may  one  day  receive  the 
effects  of  that  salvation,  of  which  we  have  received 
the  pledge  in  these  mysteries.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Ascendant. — May  our  prayers,  O 
Lord,  ascend  to  thee,  and  deliver  thy  church  from 
all  wickedness.  Thro'. 

EMBER  WEDNESDAY. 
INTIIOIT.     Ps.  xxiv. 

REmember,  O  Lord,  the  many  instances  of  thy 
compassion  and  mercy  from  the  beginning. 
Let  not  our  enemies  rule  over  us :  deliver  us,  O 
God  of  Israel,  from  all  our  distress.  Ps.  To  thee, 
O  Lord,  have  I  raised  up  my  soul,  let  me  not  be 
put  to  shame.  V.  Glory. 

After  the  Kyrie  eleison,  is  said  : 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  JR.  Stand  up  again. 
I.  COLLECT.  Precas  ?iostras.— Mercifully  near 
our  prayers,  OLord,  we  beseech  thee,  and  stretch 
forth  the  right  hand  of  thy  power  against  every  thing 
thatopposeth  us.  Thro'. 

I.  LESSON.  Exod.  xxiv.  12,  i8..»  In  those  day*  : 
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*34  EMBER- WEDNESDAY. 

The  Lord  said  to  Moses:  Come  up  to  me  into  the 
mount,  and  be  there:  and  I  will  give  thee  tables 
of  stone,  and  the  law,  and  the  commandments 
which  I  have  written  :  that  thou  mayest  teach  them. 
Moses  rose  np,  and  his  minister  Josue;  and  Moses 
going  up  into  the  mount  of  God,  said  to  the  anci- 
ents ;  Wait  ye  here  till  we  return  to  you,  you  have 
Aaron  and  Hue  with  you:  if  any  question  shall  rise, 
you  shall  refer  it  to  them.  And  when  Moses  was 
gone  up,  a  cloud  covered  the  mount.  And  the 
glory  of  the  Lord  dwelt  upon  Sinai,  covering  it 
with'  a  cloud  six  days,  and  the  seventh  clay  he  called 
him  out  of  the  midst  of  the  cloud.  And  the  sight 
of  the  glory  of  the  Lord,  was  like  a  burning  fire 
upon  the  top  of  the  mount,  in  the  eyes  of  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel.  And  Moses  entering  into  the  midst 
of  the  cloud,  went  up  into  the  mountain  ;  and  he 
was  there  forty  days,  and  forty  nights. 

GRAD.  Ps.— The  distress  of  my  soul  is  increas- 
ed :  deliver  me,  O  Lord,  from  the  evils  that  sur- 
round me;  V.  See,  OLord,  to  what  I  am  reduced. 
See  what  I  suffer,  and  forgive  me  all  my  sins, 

II.  COLLECT.  Devotionem. — We  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  mercifully  to  regard  the  devotion  of  thy 
people:  that  mortifying  their  bodies  by  fasting,  their 
minds  may  be  refreshed  by  good  works.  Thro*. 

II.  LESSON.  3  Kings  xix.  3.  8 — In  those  days: 
Elias  came  into  Bersabee  of  Juda,  and  left  his  ser- 
vant there.  And  he  went  forward  one  day's  journey 
into  the  desart.  And  when  he  was  there,  and  sat 
under  a  juniper  tree,  he  requested  for  his  soul  that 
he  might  die,  and  said:  It  is  enough  for  me,  Lord, 
take  away  my  soul :  for  I  am  no  better  than  my 
fathers.  And  he  cast  himself  down,  and  slept  under 
the  shadow  of  the  juniper  tree  :  and  behold  an  angel 
of  the  Lord  touched  him  and  said  to  him  :  Arise 
and  eat.  And  he  looked,  and  behold  there  was  at 
his  head  a  hearth-cake  and  a  vessel  of  water:  and 


EMBER-WEDNESDAY.  13$ 

he  ale  and  drank,  and  he  fell  asleep  again.  And  the 
angel  of  the  Lord  came  again  the  second  time  and 
touched  him,  and  said  to  him:  Arise,  eat,  for  thou 
hast  yet  a  great  way  to  go.  And  he  arose  and  ate 
and  drank,  and  walked  in  the  strength  of  that  food 
forty  days  and  forty  nights,  unto  the  mount  of  God. 

TRACT,  Ps.  xxiv. — Deliver  me  from  my  neces- 
sities, O  Lord ;  see  my  distress  and  affliction,  and 
forgive  me  all  my  sins.  V.  To  thee,  O  Lord,  have 
1  lifted  up  my  soul:  in  thee,  O  my  God,  do  I  put 
my  trust,  let  me  not  be  put  to  shame.  Neither  let 
my  enemies  scoff  at  me.  V.  For  none  that  trust  in 
thee  shall  ever  be  confounded  :  let  those  be  con- 
founded, who  do  what  is  vain. 

(IE»00p£U  Matt.  xii.  38.— J*  that  time-.  Some 
of  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees  answered  him,  saying: 
Master,  we  would  see  a  sign  from  thee.  But  he 
answering  said  to  them  ;  An  evil  and  adulterous  ge- 
neration  seeketh  for  a  sign;  and  a  sign  shall  not  be 
given  it,  but  the  sign  of  Jonas  the  prophet.  For  as 
Jonas  was  in  the  whale's  belly  three  days  and  three 
nights:  so  shall  the  Son  of  Man  be  in  the  heart  of 
the  earth  three  days  and  three  nights.  The  men  of 
Ninive  shall  rise  in  judgment  with  this  generation, 
and  shall  condemn  it;  because  they  did  penance  at 
the  preaching  of  Jonas.  And  behold  a  greater  than 
Jonas  is  here.  The  queen  of  the  south  shall  rise  in 
judgment  with  this  generation,  and  shall  condemn 
it :  because  she  came  from  the  ends  of  the  earth  to 
hear  the  wisdom  of  Solomon,  and  behold  a  greater 
than  Solomon  is  here.  When  an  unclean  spirit 
is  gone  out  of  a  man,  he  walketh  through  dry 
places,  seeking  rest,  and  findeth  none.  Then  he 
saith  :  I  will  return  into  my  house,  from  whence  I 
came  out.  And  coming  he  findeth  it  empty,  swept, 
and  garnished.  Then  he  goeth,  and  taketh  with 
him  seven  other  spirits  more  wicked  than  himself, 
M  2 


136  THURSDAY    IN    THE 

and  they  enter  in  and  dwell  there:  and  the  last  state 
of  that  man  is  made  worse  than  the  first.  So  shall  it 
be  also  to  this  wicked  generation.  As  he  was  yet 
speaking  to  the  multitudes,  behold  his  mother  and 
his  brethren  stood  without,  seeking  to  speak  to  him. 
And  one  said  to  him  :  Behold  thy  mother  and  thy 
brethren  stand  without  seeking  thee.  But  he  an- 
swering  him  that  told  him,  said  ;  Who  is  my  mo- 
ther,  and  who  are  my  brethren  ?  And  stretching 
forth  his  hand  towards  his  disciples,  he  said  :  Be- 
hold my  mother  and  my  brethren.  For  whosoever 
shall  do  the  will  of  my  Father  that  is  in  heaven,  the 
same  is  my  brother,  and  sister,  and  mother. 

OFFERT.  Pa.  cxviii.— I  will  meditate  on  thy 
law,  which  I  have  loved  exceedingly  ;  and  I  will  put 
in  practice  thy  commandments,  which  I  have  loved. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  this  sacrifice 
of  propitiation,  that  thou  wouldst  mercifully  forgive 
us  our  sins,  and  guide  our  tottering  hearts.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  v. — Hear  my  cry  j  attend  to  the 
\vords  of  my  prayer,  O  my  King  and  my  God  j  for 
it  is  to  thee,  O  Lord,  I  will  address  my  prayer. 

P.  COMM.  Tui,  Domine. — May  the  receiving  of 
this  thy  sacrament,  O  Lord,  both  cleanse  us  from 
our  hidden  sins,  and  deliver  us  from  the  snares  of 
our  enemies.  Thro\ 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Mentes. — Enlighten,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  our  minds  with  the  light  of  thy 
brightness;  that  we  may  discern  what  is  to  be  done, 
and  be  able  to  do  it.  Thro'. 

THURSDAY. 
INTRO  IT.     P/.xciii. 

GLORY  and  majesty  are  in  his  presence:  holi- 
ness and  grandeur  in  his  sanctuary.     Ps.   Sing 
.to  the  Lord  a  new  song,  sing  to  the  Lord  all   the 
earth.     V.  Glory. 


I.  WEEK  OF1.ENT.  13? 

COLLECT.  Devotionem.—We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  mercifully  to  regard  the  devotion  of  thy  peo- 
ple; that  mortifying  their  bodies  by  fasting,  their 
ininds  may  be  refreshed  by  good  works.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Etekiel  xviii.  r.  9.—  In  those  days  : 
The  word  of  the  Lord  came  to  me,  saying:  What 
is  the  meaning  that  you  use  among  you  this  parable 
as  a  proverb  in  the  land  of  Israel,  saying;  The  fa- 
thers  have  eaten  sour  grapes,  and  the  teeth  of  the 
children  are  set  on  edge.  As  I  live,  saith  the  Lord 
God,  this  parable  shall  be  no  more  to  you  a  proverb 
in  Israel.  Behold  all  souls  are  mine:  as  the  soul  of 
the  father,  so  also  the  soul  of  the  son  is  mine:  the 
soul  that  sinneth,  the  same  shall  die.  And  if  a  man 
be  just,  and  do  judgment  and  justice,  and  hath  nor 
eaten  upon  the  mountains,  nor  lifted  up  his  eyes  to 
the  idols  of  Israel,  and  hath  not  defiled  his  neigh* 
hour's  wife,  nor  come  near  to  a  menstruus  wo- 
man: and  hath  not  wronged  any  man,  but  hath  re- 
stored the  pledge  to  the  debtor:  hath  taken  no- 
thing away  by  violence:  hath  given  his  bread  tor  the 
hungry,  and  hath  covered  the  naked  with  a  gar- 
ment: hath  not  lent  upon  usury,  nor  taken  any  in- 
crease: hath  withdrawn  his  hand  from  iniquity,  and 
hath  executed  true  judgment  between  man  and  man : 
hath  walked  in  my  commandments,  and  kept  my 
judgments,  to  do  according  to  the  truth  ;  he  is  just, 
he  shall  surely  live,  saith  the  Lord  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xvi. — Preserve  me,  O  Lord,  as  the 
apple  of  thine  eve :  protect  me  under  the  shadow  of 
thy  wings.  T.  Let  me  be  tried  in  thy  presence;  let 
thy  eyes  see  justice  done. 

<I500p£U  Matt.  xv.  21.  28.—^  that  time: 
Jesus  went  from  thence,  and  departed  into  the  coasts 
of  Tyre  and  Sidon.  And  behold  a  woman  of  Ca- 
naan, who  came  out  of  those  coasts,  said  to  him; 
Have  mercy  on  me,  O  Lord,  thou  Son  of  David : 
M3 


13$  EMBER  FRIDAY. 

my  daughter  is  grievously  troubled  by  a  devil.  But 
he  answered  her  not  a  word.  And  his  disciples 
came  and  besought  him,  saying:  Send  her  away, 
for  she  crieth  after  us.  And  he  answering,  said;  I  was 
not  sent  but  tothe  sheep  that  are  lost  of  the  house  of 
Israel.  But  she  came  and  worshipped  him, saying: 
Lord,  help  me.  But  he  answered,  and  said;  It  is 
not  good  to  take  the  bread  of  the  children,  and  to 
cast  it  to  the  dogs.  And  she  said  :  Yea,  Lord,  for 
the  whelps  also  eat  of  the  crumbs  that  fall  from  the 
table  of  their  masters.  Then  Jesus  answering,  said 
to  her;  O  woman,  great  is  thy  faith  :  be  it  done  to 
thee  as  thou  wilt.  And  her  daughter  was  cured 
from  that  hour. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  30.— The  angel  of  the  Eord  will 
guard,  on  every  side,  those  that  fear  him,  and  he  will 
deliver  them:  taste  and  see  how  sweet  is  the  Lord. 

SECRET.  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the 
offerings  which  accompany  this  wholesome  fast, 
may,  through  thy  mercy,  save  ns.  Thro'. 

GOMM.  John  vi.— The  bread,  which  I  will 
give,  is  my  flesh  for  the  life  of  the  world. 

P.  COMM.  Tuorum. — By  the  free  grant  of  these 
thy  gifts,  O  Lord,  augment  our  temporal,  and  re* 
new  our  eternal  helps.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Ua  quasutnus.—  Grant,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  thee,  that  all  Christian  people  may  ac-* 
knowledge  what  they  profess,  and  love  the  heavenly 
mystery  they  ^o  often  approach. '  Thro'. 

EMBER-FRIDAY. 
INTROLT.      P*  xxiv. 

DELIVER  me  from  my  necessities,  OLord;  see 
my  distress  and  affliction,  forgive  me  all  my 
sins.  Ps.  To  thee  have  I  raised  up  my  soul,  O  Lord  ; 
O  my  God,  in  thee  I  trust,  let  me  not  be  put  to 
shame.     V.  Glory. 


EMBER-FRIDAY.  139 

COLLECT.  Us/o.— Be  propitious,  O  Lord,  to 
ihy  people,  and  mercifully  strengthen  those  by  thy 
aid,  whom  thou  fillest  with  devotion  to  thee.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  E/.ekielxv\\i.  20.  28.— Thus  saith  f/tc 
Lord;  The  soul  that  sinneth,  the  same  shall  die: 
the  son  shall  not  bear  the  iniquity  of  the  father,  and 
the  father  shall  not  bear  the  iniquity  of  the  son  :  the 
justice  of  the  just  shall  be  upon  him,  and  the  wick- 
edness of  the  vvicked  shall  be  upon  him.  But  if  the 
wicked  do  penance  for  all  his  sins,  which  he  hath 
committed,  and  keep  all  my  commandments,  and 
do  judgment  and  justice;  living  he  shall  live,  and 
shall  not  die.  I  will  not  remember  all  his  iniquities 
that  he  hath  done:  in  his  justice  which  he  hath 
wrought,  he  shall  live.  Is  it  my  will  that  a  sinner 
should  die,  saith  the  Lord  God,  and  not  that  lie 
should  be  converted  from  his  ways,  and  live  ?  But 
if  ihe  just  man  turn  himself  away  from  his  justice, 
and  do  iniquity  according  lo  all  the  abominations 
which  the  wicked  man  usethto  work,  shall  he  live? 
All  his  justices  which  he  hath  done,  shall  not  be 
remembered  :  in  the  prevarication,  by  which  he 
hath  prevaricated,  and  in  his  sin,  which  he  hafii 
committed,  in  them  he  shall  die.  And  you  have 
said  :  The  way  of  the  Lord  is  not  right.  Hear  ye, 
therefore,  O  house  of  Israel ;  is  it  my  way  that  is  not 
right,  and  are  not  rather  your  ways  perverse  ?  For 
when  the  just  turneth  himself  away  from  his  justice, 
and  committeth  iniquity,  he  shall  die  therein:  in 
the  injustice  that  he  hath  wrought,  he  shall  die. 
And  when  the  wicked  turneth  himself  away  from  his 
wickedness,  which  he  hath  wrought,  and  doeth 
judgment  and  justice,  he  shall  save  his  soul  alive* 
Because  he  considereth  and  turneth  away  himself 
from  all  his  iniquities,  which  he  hath  wrought,  he 
shall  surely  live,  and  not  die,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

GRADUAL.    Ps.  Ixxxv.— Save,    O  Lord,    thy 


14°  EMBER-FRIDAY. 

servant,  who  hopeth  in  thee.  V.  Give  ear,  O  Lord, 
to  ray  prayer. 

TRACT.     P*.  cii.—Deal  not,  &c.  p.iij. 

(S500ptL  John  v.  i.  15.  —  At  that  time: 
There  was  a  festival  of  the  Jews,  and  Jesus  went  up 
to  Jerusalem.  Now  there  is  at  Jerusalem  a  pond 
called  Probation,  which  in  Hebrew  is  named 
Bethsaida,  having  five  porches.  In  these  lay  a  great 
multitude  of  sick,  of  blind,  of  lame,  and  of  withered, 
waiting  for  the  moving  of  the  water.  And  the  an- 
gel of  the  Lord  went  down  at  certain  times  into  the 
pond ;  and  the  water  was  moved.  And  he  that 
went  down  first  into  the  pond  after  the  motion  of 
the  water,  was  made  whole  of  whatsoever  infirmity 
he  lay  under.  And  there  was  a  certain  man  there, 
that  had  been  eight  and  thirty  years  under  his  infir- 
mity. Him  when  Jesus  had  seen  lying,  and  knew 
that  he  had  been  now  a  long  time,  he  saith  to  him  : 
Wilt  thou  be  made  whole  ?  The  infirm  man  an- 
swered him  :  Sir,  I  have  no  man,  when  the  water  is 
troubled,  to  put  me  into  the  pond.  For  whilst  I 
am  coming,  another  goeth  down  before  me.  Jesus 
saith  to  him:  Arise,  take  up  thy  bed,  and  walk. 
And  immediately  the  man  was  made  whole,  and  he 
took  up  his  bed  and  walked.  And  it  was  the  Sab- 
bath that  day.  The  Jews  therefore  said  to  him  that 
was  cured:  It  is  the  Sabbath,  it  is  not  lawful  for 
thee  to  take  up  thy  bed.  He  answered  them  :  Me 
that  made  me  whole,  he  said  to  me:  Take  up  thy 
bed,  and  walk.  They  asked  him  therefore  :  Who 
is  that  man  that  said  to  thee  :  Take  up  thy  bed,  and 
walk  ?  But  he  that  was  healed,  knew  not  who  it 
was;  for  Jesus  went  aside  from  the  multitude  that 
was  standing  in  the  place.  Afterwards  Jesus  findeth 
him  in  the  temple,  and  saith  to  him:  Behold  thou  art 
made  whole  ;  sin  no  more,  lest  some  worse  thing 
happen  to  thee.  The  man  went  his  way,  and  told 


EMBER-SATURDAY*  14! 

the  Jews  that  it  was  Jesus  that  had  made  him  whole. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cii.—Bless  the  Lord,  O  my  soul, 
and  forget  not  what  he  hath  done  for  thee :  and 
thou  shalt  £row  young  like  an  eagle* 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  offerings  of  our  homage,  and  mercifully  sanctify 
thy  own  gifts.  Thro\ 

COMM.  Ps.  vi. — Let  all  my  enemies  be  put  to 
shame  and  be  dismayed :  let  them  be  put  to  flight 
and  shame  very  speedily. 

P.  COMM.  Per  Imjus. — May  the  efficacy  of  this 
sacrament,  O  Lord,  cleanse  us  from  our  sins,  and 
obtain  for  us  the  accomplishment  of  our  just  desires. 
Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Exuudi. — Graciously  hear  us,  O 
merciful  God,  and  manifest  the  light  of  thy  grace  to 
our  souls.  Thro'. 

EMBER-SATURDAY. 
INTROIT.      Ps.  Ixxxvii, 

LET  my  prayer  come  before  thee,  O  Lord ;  give 
ear,  O  Lord,  to   my   petition.     Ps,  O   Lord 
God,  my  Saviour,  to  thee  have  I  cried  out  night 
and  day.     V.  Glory. 

Immediately  after  Kyrie  eleison,  #c.  is  said  : 
Let  us  pray  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 
1.  COLLECT.  Populum  tuum.— Mercifully,  O 
Lord,  look  down  on  thy  people,  and  in  thy  cle- 
mency turn  away  from  them  the  scourges  of  thy 
wrath.  Thro*. 

I.  LESSON.  Deut.  xxxvi.  13.— fo  those  days: 
Moses  spoke  to  the  people ,  saying  :  When  thou  hast  . 
made  an  end  of  tithing  all  thy  fruits,  in  the  third 
year  of  tithes  thou  shalt  give  it  to  the  Leviie,  and  to 
the  stranger,  and  to  the  fatherless,  and  to  the  wi- 
dow, that  they  may  eat  within  thy  gates,  and  be 
filled ;  and  thou  shalt  s^eak  thus  in  the  sight  of  the 


'42  EMBER-SATURDAY". 

Lord  thy  God:  I  have  taken  that  which  was  sancti- 
fied out  of  my  house,  and  I  have  given  it  to  the  Le- 
vite  and  to  the  stranger,  and  to  the  fatherless  and  to 
the  widow,  as  thou  hast  commanded  me;  I  have 
not  transgressed  thy  commandments,  nor  forgotten 
thy  precepts.  I  have  not  eaten  of  them  in  my 
mourning,  nor  separated  them  from  any  uncleanness, 
nor  spent  any  thing  of  them  in  funerals.  I  have 
obeyed  the  voice  of  the  Lord  my  God,  and  have 
done  all  things  as  thou  hast  commanded  me.  Look 
from  thy  sanctuary,  and  thy  high  habitation  of  hea- 
ven, and  bless  thy  people  Israel,  and  the  land  which 
thou  hast  given  us,  as  thou  didst  swear  to  our  fa- 
thers; a  land  flowing  with  milk  and  honey.  This 
day  the  Lord  thy  God  hath  commanded  thee  to  do 
these  commandments  and  judgments :  and  to  keep 
and  fulfil  them  with  all  thy  heart,  and  with  ail  thy 
soul.  Thou  hast  chosen  the  Lord  this  day  to  be 
thy  God,  and  to  walk  in  his  ways  and  keep  his  cere- 
monies, and  precepts  and  judgments,  and  obey  his 
command.  And  the  Lord  hath  chosen  thee  this 
day  to  be  his  peculiar  people,  as  he  hath  spoken  to 
thee,  and  to  keep  all  his  commandments:  And  to 
make  thee  higher  than  all  nations  which  he  hath 
created,  to  his  own  praise,  and  name,  and  glory: 
that  thou  mayest  be  a  holy  people  of  the  Lord  thy 
God,  as  he  hath  spoken. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxvrii.-- Forgive  us,  O  Lord,  our  ok 
fences,  lest  the  Gentiles  say :    Where  is  now  their 
God?    V.  H?lpus,  O  God,  our  Saviour,    and  for 
the  glory  of  thy  name  deliver  us,  O  Lord. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

If.  COLLECT.  Protector.-— Look  on  us,  O 
God,  our  protector,  that  we,  who  labour  under  the 
weight  of  our  own  evils,  may  be  rescued  by  thy 
mercy  and  serve  thee  with  a  free  mind.  Thro7. 

U.LESSON.Defcf.xi.**  T.^-.I*thssed&y$*  Moses 
said  to  the  children  tf  Israel:  If  you  kee,)  the  com. 


EMBER-SATURDAY.  143 

mandments  which  1  command  you,  and  do  them,  to 
love  the  Lord  your  God,  and  walk  in  all  his  ways, 
cleaving  unto  him,  the  Lord  will  destroy  all  these 
nations  before  your  face,  and  you  shall  possess  them 
which  are  greater  and  stronger  than  you.  Every 
place,  that  your  foot  shall  tread  upon,  shall  be 
yours.  From  the  desart,  and  from  Libanus,  from 
the  great  river  Euphrates  unto  the  western  sea  shall 
be  your  borders,  none  shall  stand  against  you  ;  the 
Lord  your  God  shall  lay  the  dread  and  fear  of  you 
upon  all  the  land  that  you  shall  treat!  upon,  as  he 
hath  spoken  to  you. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxxiii. — Cast  an   eye  upon   us,    O 
God  our  protector,  look  down  upon  thy  servants. 
V.  Lord  God  of  armies,  hear  the  prayers  of  thy 
servants. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

Ill,  COLLECT.  Adcsto.— Give  ear,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  to  our  prayers;  that,  through  the  as- 
sistance of  thy  grace,  we  may  be  humble  in  prospe- 
rity, and  without  fear  in  adversity.  Thro'. 

HI.  LESSON.  2  Mac/tab,  i.  27.  27.— In  those 
day* :  All  the  priests  were  in  prayer  while  the  sa- 
crifice was  consuming;  Jonathan  beginning,  and  the 
rest  answering.  And  the  prayer  of  Nehemias  w;as 
after  this  manner;  O  Lord  God,  creator  of  all 
things,  dreadful,  and  strong,  just,  an(J  merciful, 
who  alone  art  the  good  king.  Who  a'one  art  gra- 
cious, who  alone  ait  just,  and  almighty,  and  eter- 
nal, who  deliverest  Lrael  from  all  evil,  who  didst 
choose  the  fathers,  and  didst  sanctity  them  :  re- 
ceive the  sacrifice  fur  all  thy  people  Israel,  and  pre- 
serve thy  own  portion,  and  sanctify  it.  Gather  to- 
gether our  scattered  people,  deliver  them  that  are 
slaves  to  the  Gentiles,  and  look  upon  them  that. are 
despised  and  abhorred:  that  the  Gentiles  may  know 
that  thon  art  our  God. 

GRAD.    Ps.   Ixxxix.— Turn  to  us,    O   Lord,   a 


»44  EMBER- SATURDAY.1 

little,  and  be  reconciled  with  thy  servants.  F.  Thou, 
O  Lord,  hast  been  our  refuge  from  generation  to 
generation. 

Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 
IV.  COLLECT.  Preces.  Mercifully  hear,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Lord,  the  prayers  of  thy  people:  that 
we,  who  are  justly  affiicted  for  our  sins,  may  merci- 
fully be  delivered  for  the  glory  of  thy  name.  Thro'. 

IV.  LESSON.     Eccles.  xxxvi.  i.  10. — Have  mer- 
cy, upon  us,  O  God  of  all,  and  behold  us,  and  shew 
us  the  light  of  thy  mercies:  and  send  thy  fear  upon 
the  nations  that  have  not  sought  after  thee:  that 
they  may  know  that  there  is  no  God  besides  thee, 
and  that  they  may  shew  forth  thy  wonders.     Lift  up 
thy  hand  over  the  strange  nations,  that  they  may  see 
thy  power.  For  as  thou  hast  been  sanctified  in  us  in 
their  sight,  so  thou  shalt  be  magnified  among  them 
in  our  presence;  that  they  may  know  thee,  as  we 
also  have  known  thee,  that  there  is  no  God  beside 
thee,  O  Lord.    Renew  thy  signs,  and  work  new 
miracles.     Glorify   thy  hand,  and   thy   right  arm. 
Raise  up  indignation,  and  pour  out  wrath.     Take 
away  the  adversary,  and  crush  the  enemy.     Hasten 
the  time,  and   remember  the   end,  that  they   may 
declare  thy  wonderful  works,  0  Lord  our  God. 

GHAD.  Ps.  cxl. — Let  my  prayer  ascend  like  in- 
cense  in  thy  sight,   O  Lord.     V.  And  let  the  lifting 
up  my  hands  be  to  thee  like  the  evening  sacrifice. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

V.  COLLECT.    Actiones.— Prevent,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  our  actions  by  thy  holy  inspirations, 
and  carry  them  on  by  thy  gracious  assistance ;  that 
every  prayer  and  work  of  ours  may  always  begin 
from  thee,  and  by  thee  be  happily  ended. 

V.  Lesson,  with  t he  Canticle  and  VI.  Collect,  as 

p.  66  and  67. 

Here  arc  said  the  II.  and  III.  Collects,  an  directed  m 
the  Mas-*  iw  Ash-VVcdnesday,  p.  n6» 


EMBEE-SATURDAY.  14$ 

EPISTLE,  i  Thfss.  v.  14.  23.—  Uretltrcn  :  We 
beseech  you,  rebuke  the  unquiet,  comfort  the  fteble- 
minded,  support  the  weak,  be  patient  towards  all 
men.  See  that  none  render  evil  for  evil  to  any 
man:  but  ever  follow  that  which  is  good  towards 
each  other,  and  towards  all  men.  Always  rejoice. 
Pray  without  ceasing.  In  all  things  givethnnks: 
for  this  is  the  will  of  God  in  Christ  Jesus  concerning 
you  all.  Extinguish  not  the  spirit.  Despise  not 
prophecies.  But  prove  all  things:  hold  that  which 
is  good.  From  all  appearance  of  evil  refrain  your- 
selves. And  may  the  God  of  peace  himself  sanctify 
you  in  all  things:  that  your  whole  spirit,  and  soul, 
and  body  be  preserved  blameless  for  the  coming  of 
Christ  Jesus  our  J/ord. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cxvi.  —  Praise  the  Lord  all  ye 
Gentiles  :  praise  him  all  nations,  V.  Tor  his  mercy 
is  confirmed  upon  us;  and  the  truth  ol  the  Lord 
abideth  for  ever. 

(B0£fp0l»  Matt.  xvii.  As  in  the  Mass  of  Jo* 
morrow, />.  147. 

CHERT.  Ps  Ixxxvii.—O  Lord  God,  my  Savi- 
viour,  to  thee  have  I  cried  out  by  day  and  by  night : 
let  my  prayer  come  to  thee,  O  Lord. 

SECRET •  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
our  fast  by  this  holy  sacrifice;  that  what  we  out- 
wardly profess  by  the  observance  of  this  fast,  may 
be  inuardly  effected  in  us.  Thro'. 

COMM.    Ps.  vii.— In   thee,  O  Lord    my  God, 
have  I  put  my  trust,  deliver  me  from  al!  my  ; 
secutors,  and  rescue  me. 

P.   COMM.     SctnctiJicati*nifa*.->-Mzy    this   holy 
sacrifice,  O  Lord,   cure  us  of  all  our  bins,  an >.'. 
come  an  eternal  remedy  to  us.     Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.  Bow  clown  yniirhr.uls  to  God. 
m  PRAYER.   lV//</f.«.— May  thy  mm -h-desired  his- 
sing, O  God,  give  strength  to  thv  peopl»-  ;  TiitV>  « 


M&  I*.    SUNDAY  IN  LENT. 

der  them  from  ever  swerving  from  thy  will,  and 
make  them  always  enjoy  thy  blessing.     Thro*. 

H    SUNDAY  IN  LENT. 
1NTROIT.    Ps.  xx\v. 

REmember,  O  Lord,  73 Eminiscere  miseratio- 
thy  bowels  of  com-  *^  numtuarum,Domine9 
passion  and  mercy  that  et  nuscricordia  tiuc,  qua 
are  from  the  beginning  of  a  s&culo  sunt.  Ne  w?z. 
the  world.  Let  not  our  quam  domincntur  nobis 
enemies  ever  rule  over  inimici  nostri:  liberanos, 
us:  deliver  us,  O  God  of  Dens  Israel,  ex  omnibus 
Israel,  from  all  our-dis-  angustiis  nostris. 
tress.  Ps.  To  thee,  O  Ps.  Ad  te,  Domine,  k. 
Lord,  have  I  lifted  up  vavi  animam  uieam :  Deus 
my  soul  •  in  thee,  O  my  MCUS  in  te,  co-nfido,  non 
God,  I  trust,  let  me  not  erubesca?n. 
be  ashamed.  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus  qui.  —  O  God,  who  seest 
IIQW  destitute  we  are  of  all  strength,  preserve  us  both 
within  and  without,  that  our  bodies  may  be  free 
from  all  adversity,  and  our  souls  purified  from  all 
evil  thoughts.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Thtss.  iv.  i.  7.— Brethren  :  We 
pray  and  beseech  you  in  the  Lord  Jesus,  that  as  you 
have  received  of  us,  how  you  ought  to  walk  and  to 
please  God,  so  also  you  would  walk,  that  you  may 
abound  the  more.  For  you  know  what  command, 
rnents  I  have  given  to  you  by  the  Lord  Jesus.  For 
this  is  the  will  of  God,  your  sanctification :  that  you 
should  abstain  from  fornication,  that  every  one  of 
you  should  know  how  to  possess  his  vessel  in  sancti- 
fication and  honour :  not  in  the  passion  of  lust,  like 
the  Gentiles  that  know  not  God  ;  and  that  no  man 
over-reach,  nor  deceive  his  brother  in  business: 
because  the  Lord  is  the  avenger  of  all  these  things,  as 
we  have  told  you  before,  and  have  testified.  For 


II.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT.  147 

God  hath  not  called  us  unto  uncleanness,  but  unto 
sanctifiontion. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxv.—  The  distress  of  my  soul  is  in- 

reased,  deliver  me,  O   Lord,  from  the  evils  that 

surround  me.     V.  See,  O  Lord,  to  what  I  am  re- 

%ep  AS^W  »  ]  suffer'  and  for^ive  me<a11  my  sins- 

1KAC1.     1  s,  cv.—  Cottjitemini  Domino  guoniam 

•mus  :   quuniam  in  stcculum  miscricordia  ejvs.     Praise 

Lord  for  he  is  good  :  and  his  mercy  endureth 

for  ever        ,  Who  will  relate  the  wonderful  works 

of  the  Lord  :  who  will   publish  all  his  praises?     V 

lappy  are  they  who  observe  his  law,  and  at  all 

nesdo  that  which  is  just.     V.  Remember  us,  O 

>rd    according  to  the  good-will  thou  bearest  thy 

people:  visit  us  and  save  us. 


(00p0U  Matt.  xvii.  ,.  g.-At  that  time: 
Jesus  taketh  unto  him  Peter  and  James,  and  John 

brother,  and  bnngeth  them  up  into  ahigh  moun- 

tain apart.     And  he  was  transfigured  before  them. 

And  Ins  face  did  shine  as  the  sun:  and  his  garments 

became  white  as  snow.     And  behold  there  appeared 

to  them  Moses  and  Elias  talking  with  him.     Then 

leer  answering    said  to  Jesus:  Lord,  it  is  good  for 

ehere:   if  thou  tvilt,  let  us  make  here  three 

bernacles,  one  for  thee,  and  one  for  Moses,  and 

ahri^tH     A    And  '*  he  was  yet  speaking,  behold 

bnght  cloud  overshadowed  them.     And  fo  a  voice 

out  of  the  cloud,  saying:  This  is  my  beloved  Son,  in 

Wdl     1  hear       him'     ^    h 


IA~  i  —  — -•  -"Ce,  and  wvicvciy 

---     And  Jesus  came  and  touched  them, 
andsa.dtothem:  Arise,  and  be  not  afraid.     And 
£l  en  they  hfted  ,,p  their  eyes,  they  saw  no  man, 
t  01  ly  Jesus.      And  as  they  came  down  from  the 
mountain.-  Jesns  chared  them,  saying:    Tell  the   ' 

«on  to  no  man    till  the  Son  of  Man  slwll  be  risen 
Ji om  the  dead.    CREDO. 


»48  MONDAY  IN  THE 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxviii.— L  will  meditate  on  thy 
law,  which  I  have  loved  exceedingly:  and  1  will 
practise  thy  commandments,  which  I  have  loved. 

SECRET.  %Look  down,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  on  this  our  sacrifice,  that  it  may  increase  out 
devotion,  and  procure  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  v.— Hear  my  cry :  attend  to  the 
words  of  my  prayer,  O  my  King  and  my  God;  for 
it  is  to  thee,  O  Lord,  I  will  address  my  prayer. 

P.  COMM.  Supplices. — Grant  we  humbly  be- 
seech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  those,  whom 
thou  hast  refreshed  with  thy  sacraments,  may  wor- 
thily serve  thee  in  the  conduct  of  their  lives.  Thro* 

MONDAY, 
INTR01T.  Ps.  xxiv. 

DELIVER  me,  O  Lord,  and  take  pity  ou  me : 
for  my  foot  hath  stood  in  the  right  path :  in 
the  assemblies  will  I  bless  the  Lord.  Ps.  Be  thou,  O 
Lord,  my  judge,  for  I  have  walked  in  my  inno- 
cency;  and  trusting  in  thee,  1  shall  not  be  weakenedi 
V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Presto.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  thy  people  who  mortify 
themselves  by  abstinence  from  meat,  may  likewise 
fast  from  sin,  and  follow  righteousness.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Dan.  ix.  15.  19.— In  those  days; 
Daniel  prayed  to  the  Lord,  saying:  O  Lord  our 
God,  who  hast  brought  thy  people  out  of  the  land 
of  Egypt  with  a  strong  hand,  and  hast  made  thee  a 
name  as  at  this  day  ;  we  have  sinned,  we  have 
committed  iniquity,  O  Lord,  against  all  thy  justice: 
let  thy  wrath  and  thy  indignation  be  turned  away,  I 
beseech  thee,  from  the  city  of  Jerusalem,  and  thy 
holy  mountain.  For  by  reason  of  our  sins,  and  the 
iniquities  of  our  fathers,  Jerusalem  and  thy  people 
area  reproach  to  all  that  are  round  about  us.  Now 
therefore,  O  our  God,  hear  the  supplication  of  thy 


IT.    WEEK  OF  LENT.  149 

servant,  and  his  prayers;  and  shew  thy  face  upon 
thy  sanctuary  which  is  desolate,  for  thy  own  sake.  . 
Incline,  O  my  God,  thy  ear,  and  hear:  open  thy 
eyes,  and  see  our  desolation,  and  the  city  upon 
which  thy  name  is  called:  for  it  is  not  for' our  justi- 
fications that  we  present  our  prayers  before  thy  face, 
but  for  the  multitude  of  thy  tender  mercies.  O 
Lord  hear  ;  O  Lord,  be  appeased  :  hearken  and  do : 
delay  not  for  thy  own  sake,  O  my  God  :  because  thy 
name  is  invocated  upon  thy  city,  and  upon  thy  peo- 
ple, 0  Lord  our  God. 

GRAD.  Ps  lxi\.---Be  thou  my  helper  and  my  de« 
liverer ;  O  Lord,  delay  not.  T.  Let  rny  enemies, 
v;ho  seek  my  soul,  be  put  to  confusion  and  shame. 
TRACT.  Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  />.  117. 
(E0$p£i«  John  viii.  21.  29. — At  thai  line ; 
Jt-sus  said  to  the  -multitude  of  the.  Jews  :  1  go  my  way, 
iind  you  shall  seek  me,  and  you  shall  die  in  your 
sin.  Whither  I  go,  you  cannot  come.  The  Jews 
therefore  said:  Will  he  kill  himself,  because  .he 
said  :  Whither  I  go,  you  cannot  come :  And  he  said 
to  them.  You  are  from  beneath,  I  am  from  above. 
You  are  of  this  world,  I  am  not  of  this  world. 
Therefore  I  say  to  you,  that  you  shall  die  in  your 
sins.  For  if  you  believe  not  that  I  am  he,  you  shall 
die  in  your  sin.  They  said  therefore  to  him  :  What 
art  thou  ?  Jesus  said  to  them:  The  beginning,  who 
also  speak  to  you.  1  have  many  things  to  speak, 
and  to  judge  of  you.  But  hr  that  st;nt  me  is  true  ; 
and  the  things  I  have  heard  ol  him,  the  same  I  s^eak 
in  the  world.  Now  they  did  not  know  that  he  said 
God  was  his  Father.  Jesus  therefore  said  to  them  : 
When  you  shall  have  lifted  up  the  Son  of  Man, 
then  shall  you  know  that  I  am  he,  and  that  t  do  no- 
thing of  myself  but  as  the  Father  has  taught  me,  I 
speak  these  things.  And  he  that  sent  me  is  with 
me,  and  he  hath  not  left  me  alone:  for  I  do  always 
the  things  that  please  him. 
N3 


*5°  TUESDAY  IN  THE 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xv.~ I  will  bless  the  Lord,  who 
hath  given  me  understanding  :  I  always  had  the 
Lord  before  my  eyes  ;  for  he  is  at  my  right-hand, 
that  I  mav  not  fall. 

SECRET/  May  this  sacrifice  of  propitiation  and 
praise  make  us,  O  Lord,  worthy  of  thy  protection* 
Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  viii.— -O  Lord  our  God,  how  won- 
derful  is  thy  name  over  the  whole  earth  ! 

P.  COMM.  H<zc  wos.—.May  this  communion,  O 
Lord,  cleanse  us  from  sin;  and  make  us  partakers  of 
the  heavenly  remedy.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God 

PRAYER.  Adeito.*--He&t  our  prayers  and  en- 
treaties, O  Almighty  God;  and  grant  that  those,  to 
whom  thou  givest  hopes  of  thy  mercy,  may  expe- 
rience the  effects  of  thy  usual  clemency.  Thro'. 

TUESDAY. 
INTROLT.     P*.xxvi. 

MY  heart  hath  said  to  thee:  I  have  sought  thy 
presence;  I  will  continue  to  seek  thy  pre- 
sence, O  Lord:  turn  not  thy  face  from  me.  Ps.  The 
Lord  is  my  light  and  my  salvation;  whom  shall  I 
fear?  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  P<?r/fcc.— Grant  us,  OLord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  thy  assistance,  whereby  we  may  go 
through  the  observance  of  this  holy  fast,  that  what 
we  have  undertaken  by  thy  appointment,  we  may 
accomplish  by  thy  grace.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  3  Kmgs  xvii.  8  16. — IH  those  days; 
The  word  of  the  Lord  came  to  Ellas  the  Thesbite, 
saying:  Arise,  and  go  to  Sarephta,  a  city  of  the 
Sidonians,  and  dwell  there:  for  I  have  commanded 
a  widow  woman  there  to  feed  thee.  He  arose,  and 
went  to  Sarephta.  And  when  he  was  come  to  the 
gate  of  the  city,  he  saw  the  widow  woman  gather- 
ing sticks,  and  he  called  her,  and  said  to  her: 


IT.    WEEK  OF  LENT.  15! 

Give  me  a  little  water  in  a  vessel,  that  I  may  drink. 
And  when  she  was  going  to  fetch  it,  he  called  after 
her,  saying:  Bring  me,  also,  I  beseech  thee,  a  mor- 
sel of  bread  in  thy  hand.  And  she  answered:  As 
the  Lord  thy  God  liveth,  I  have  no  bread,  but  only 
a  handful  of  meal  in  a  pot,  and  a  little  oil  in  a 
cruse  :  behold  I  am  gathering  two  sticks,  that  I 
may  go  in  and  dress  it  for  me  and  my  son ,  that  we 
may  eat  it,  and  die.  And  Elias  said  to  her  :  Fear 
not,  but  go,  and  do  as  thou  hast  said :  but  first 
make  for  me  of  the  same  meal  a  little  hearth-cake, 
and  bring  it  to  me:  and  after  make  for  thyself  and 
thy  son.  For  thussaith  the  Lord  the  God  of  Israel : 
The  pot  of  meal  shall  not  waste,  nor  the  cruse 
of  oil  be  diminished,  until  the  day  wherein  the 
Lord  will  give  rain  upon  the  face  of  the  earth.  She 
went,  and  did  according  to  the  word  of  Elias ;  and 
he  ate,  and  she,  and  her  house  :  and  from  that  day 
the  pot  of  meal  wasted  not,  and  the  cruse  of  oil 
was  not  diminished,  according  to  the  word  of  the 
Lord,  \vhich  he  spoke  in  the  hand  of  Elias. 

GRAD.  7'x.  liv.— (last  thy  solicitude  on  the  Lord, 
and  he  will  feed  thee.  V.  When  I  cried  out  to  the 
Lord,  he  heard  my  voice  against  those  who  \vere 
coming  upon  me. 

(B00p0l«.  Matt,  xxiii.  i.  12.— At  that  rime: 
Jesus  spoke  to  the  multitude  and  to  his  disciples, 
saying:  the  Scribes  and  the  Pharisees  have  sitten 
on  the  chair  of  Moses.  All  therefore  whatsoever  they 
shall  say  to  you,  observe  and  do;  but,  according  to 
th-ir  works  do  ye  not:  for  they  say,  and  do  not. 
For  they  bind  heavy  and  insupportable  burdens: 
and  lay  them  on  men's  shoulders:  but  with  a  finger 
of  their  own  they  will  not  move  them.  And  all 
these  works  they  do  to  be  seen  of  men.  For  they 
make  their  phylacteries  broad  and  enlarge  their 
fringes.  And  they  love  the  first  places  at  feasts, 
and  th*  first  chairs  in  the  synagogues,  and  salutations 


152  WEDNESDAY  IN  THE 

in  the  market-place,  and  to  be  called  by  men, 
Rabbi.  But  be  not  you  called  Rabbi.  For  one  is 
your  master,  and  all  you  are  brethren.  And  call 
none  your  father  upon  earth:  for  one  is  your  father, 
vrho  is  in  heaven.  Neither  be  ye  called  masters : 
for  one  is  your  master,  Christ.  He  that  is  the 
greatest  among  you  shall  be  your  servant.  And 
whosoever  shall  exalt  himself,  shall  be  humbled: 
and  he  that  shall  humble  himself,  shall  be  exalted. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  1.— Have  mercy  on  me,  O  Lord, 
aecording  to  thy  great  mercy  :  O  Lord,  blot  out  my 
iniquity. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  sanctify  us,  O  Lord,  by 
these  mysteries;  and  let  them  cleanse  us  from  all 
earthly  vice,  and  bring  us  to  the  enjoyment  of  thy 
heavenly  gifts.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  ix. — I  will  publfsh  all  thy  wonders, — 
I  will  rejoice  in  thee,  and  be  transported  with  joy,  and 
sing  the  glory  ot  thy  name,  O  thou  the  Most  High. 

P,  COMM.  Ut  sacris. — Make  us  always,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Lord,  obedient  to  thy  commandments, 
that  we  may  be  worthy  of  thy  gifts,  which  we  have 
partaken  of.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.    Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Propitiare.— Be  appeased,  O  Lord, 
by  our  prayers,  and  heal  the  infirmities  of  our 
souls ;  that  our  sins  being  forgiven,  we  may  ever 
rejoice  in  thy  blessings.  Thro'. 

WEDNESDAY. 
INTRO  IT.     Ps.  xxxvii. 

FOllS AKE  me  not,  O  Lord  my  God,  depart  not 
from  me :  come  to  my  assistance,  O  Lord,  the 
God  of  my  salvation.     Ps.  Lord,  rebuke  me  not  in 
thy  fury,  nor  chastise  me  in  thy  wrath.     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Populum  tuum. — Mercifully  regard 
thy  people,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee ;  and  grant 
that  those  whom  thou  commandest  to  abstain  from 
flesh,  may  likewise  cease  from  all  sin.  Thro'. 


II.    WEEK  OF  LENT.  153 

LESSON.  Esther  xiii.  8.  17.— In  tlose  day  si 
Mardochai  besought  the  Lord,  remembering  all  his 
works,  and  said  :  O  Lord,  Lord,  almighty  King, 
for  all  things  are  in  thy  power,  and  there  is  none 
that  can  resist  thy  will,  if  thou  determine  to  save 
Israel.  Thou  hast  made  heaven,  and  earth,  and  all 
things  that  are  under  the  cope  of  heaven.  Thou 
art  Lord  of  all,  and  there  is  none  that  can  resist  thy 
majesty.  Tuou  kno west  all  things,  and  thou  knowest 
that  it  was  not  out  of  pride  and  contempt,  or  any 
desire  of  glory,  that  I  refused  to  worship  the 
proud  Aman,  (for  I  would  willingly  and  readily 
for  the  salvation  of  Israel  have  kissed  even  the  steps 
of  his  feet"!;  but  I  feared  lest  I  should  transfer  the 
honour  of  my  God  to  a  man,  and  lest  1  should 
adore  any  one  except  my  God,  And  now,  O  Lord, 
O  King,  O  God  of  Abraham,  have  mercy  on  thy 
people,  because  our  enemies  resolve  to  destroy  us, 
and  extinguish  thy  inheritance.  Despise  not  thy 
portion  which  thou  hast  redeemed  for  thyself  out  of 
Egypt.  Hear  my  supplication,  and  be  merciful- to 
thy  lot  and  inheritance,  and  turn  our  mourning  into 
joy,  that  we  may  live  and  praise  thy  name,  O  Lord, 
and  shut  not  the  mouths  of  them  that  sing  to  thee, 
O  lard  uur  Cod. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxvii — Save  thy  people,  O  Lord, 
and  bless  thy  inheritance.  V-  To  thee,  O  Lord, 
have  I  cried  out:  answer  me,  O  my  God,  lest  1  be- 
come like  those  that  go  down  into  the  pit. 

TRACT.— Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117. 
(1500peU  Matt.  xx  17.  28 — At  that  time: 
Jesus  going  up  to  Jerusalem,  took  the  twelve  disci- 
ples apart,  and  said  to  them:  Behold  we  go  up  to 
Jerusalem,  and  the  Son  of  Man  shall  be  betrayed 
to  the  chief  priests  and  to  the  scribes,  and  they  shall 
condemn  him  to  death.  And  shall  deliver  him  to 
the  Gentiles  to  be  mocked,  and  to  be  scourged,  and 
^o  be  crucified,  and  the  third  day  he  shall  rise 


154  WEDNESDAY  IN  THE 

again.  [*Then  came  to  him  the  mother  of  the  sons, 
of  Zebedee  with  her  sons,  worshipping  and  desiring 
something  of  him.  And  he  said  to  her :  What  wilt 
thou  ?  She  saith  to  him:  Say  that  these  my  two 
sons  maysit,«the  one  on  thy  right  hand,  and  the 
other  on  thy  left,  in  thy  kingdom.  But  Jesus  an* 
swered,  and  said:  You  know  not  what  you  ask. 
Can  you  drink  of  the  chalice  that  I  shall  drink? 
They  say  to  him:  We  can.  He  saith  to  them: 
Of  my  chalice  indeed  you  shall  drink:  but  to  sit  on 
my  right  hand  or  left  hand,  is  not  mine  to  give  you, 
but  to  them  for  whom  it  is  prepared  by  my  Father,  f] 
And  when  the  ten  heard  it  they  were  moved  with  in- 
dignation against  the  two  brethren.  But  Jesus 
called  them  to  him,  and  said:  You  know  that  the 
princes  of  the  Gentiles  lord  it  over  them:  and  they 
that  are  the  greater,  exercise  power  upon  them, 
It  shall  not  be  so  among  you;  but  whosoever  will 
be  the  greater  among  you,  let  him  be  your  mini- 
ster: and  he  that  will  be  first  among  you,  shall  be 
your  servant.  Even  as  the  Son  of  Man  came  not 
to  be  ministered  unto,  but  to  minister  and  to  give 
his  life  a  redemption  for  many. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxiv.— To  thee,  O  Lord,  have  I 
raised  up  my  soul :  in  thee,  O  God,  1  put  my  trust; 
let  me  not  be  put  to  shame  ;  neither  let  my  enemies 
scoff  at  me :  for  none  that  wait  for  thee  shall  be 
put  to  shame. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  on 
the  offerings  we  make  thee,  and  by  the  intercourse 
of  these  sacred  mysteries,  release  us  from  the  bonds 
of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  x.— The  Lord  is  just  and  loveth 
justice:  he  hath  regard  to  what  is  right. 

P.  COMM.  Sump  t  is.— We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 

*  The  Gofpel  of  St.  James,  2£th  July,  begins  here,  and 
closes  at  t. 


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II.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  155 

that  the  receiving  this  sacrament  may  forward  our 
eternal  redemption.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Dens  innocenti&.—Q  God,  the  restorer 
and  lover  of  innocence,  draw  to  thyself  the  hearts 
of  thy  servants,  that  being  inflamed  by  thy  holy 
Spirit,  they  may  be  constant  in  faith,  and  zealous 
in  good  works.  Thro*. 

THURSDAY. 
1NTROIT.  Ps.  Ixix. 

OGod,  come  thou  to  my  assistance;  O  Lord, 
make  haste  to  help  me :  let  my  enemies,  who 
seek  my  life,  be  put  to  confusion  and  shame.     Ps. 
May  they  be  put  to  flight,  and  ashamed,  who  seek 
me  harm.     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  PrtfNta.— Grant  us,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  the  assistance  of  thy  grace;  that  whilst  \\  c 
duly  apply  ourselves  to  fasting  and  prayer,  we  may 
be  delivered  from  all  enemies  both  of  soul  and  body, 
Thro'. 

LESSON.  Jer.  xvii.  <;.  10.— Thus  saith  the  Lord: 
Cursed  be  the  man  that  trusteth  in  man,  and  maketh 
flesh  his  arm,  and  whose  heart  departeth  from  the 
Lord.  For  he  shall  be  like  tamarick  in  thedesart, 
and  he  shall  wot  see  when  good  shall  come:  but  he 
shall  dwell  in  the  dry  ness  of  the  desart,  in  a  salt  land, 
and  not  inhabited.  Blessed  be  the  man  that  trusteth 
in  the  Lord,  and.  the  Lord  shall  be  his  confidence. 
And  he  shall  be  as  a  tree  that  is  planted  by  the 
waters,  that  spreadeth  out  its  roots  towards  mois- 
ture: and  it  shall  not  fear  when  the  heat  cometh. 
And  the  leaf  thereof  shall  be  green,  and  in  the  time 
of  drought  it  shall  not  be  solicitous,  neither  shall 
it  cease  at  any  time  to  bring  forth  fruit.  The  heart 
is  perverse  above  all  things,  and  unsearchable,  \vhv> 
ran  know  it  ?  1  urn  the  Lord  that  search  the  heart, 
and  prove  the  veins;  who  give  to  every  one  accord- 


156  THURSDAY  IN  THE 

jng  to  his  wa}',   and  according  to  the  fruit  of  his 
devices,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

GRAL).  Ps.  Ixxviii. —  Forgive  u«,  O  Lord, 
onr  offences,  I&t  the  Gentiles  say:  Where  is  now 
their  God?  V.  Help  us,  O  God  our  Saviour,  and 
for  the  glory  of  thy  name  deliver  us,  O  Lord. 

dDOgpd*  Luke  xvi.  19.  31.— At  that  lime; 
Jews  said  to  the  Pharisees :  There  was  a  certain  rich 
inan,  who  was  clothed  in  purple  and  fine  linen :  and 
feasted  sumptuously  every  day.  And  there  was  a 
certain  beggar  named  Lazarus,  who  lay  at  his  gate, 
full  of  sores:  desiring  to  be  fed  with  the  crumbs 
that  fell  from  the  rich  man's  table:  and  no  one  did 
give  him :  moreover  the  dogs  came  and  licked  his 
sores:  And  it  came  to  pass  that  the  beggar  died,  and 
was  carried  by  the  angels  into  Abraham's  bosom. 
And  the  rich  man  also  died  :  and  he  was  buried  in 
hell.  And  lifting  up  his  eyes,  when  he  was  in  tor- 
ments, he  saw  Abraham  afar  off,  and  Lazarus  in  his 
bosom:  And  he  cried,  and  said  :  Father  Abraham, 
have  mercy  on  me,  and  send  Lazarus  that  he  may 
dip  the  tip  of  his  finger  in  water,  to  cool  my  tongue, 
for  I  am  tormented  in  this  flame.  And  A  bra- 
ham  said  to  him;  Son,  remember  that  thou  didst 
receive  good  things  in  thy  life-time,  and  likewise 
Lazarus  evil  things:  but  now  he  is  comforted,  and 
thou  art  tormented.  And  besides  all  this,  between 
us  and  you  there  is  fixed  a  great  chaos:  so  that  they 
who  would  pass  from  hence  to  you,  cannot,  nor 
from  thence  come  hither.  And  he  said  :  Then,  fa. 
ther,  I  beseech  thee,  that  thou  wouldst  send  him  to 
my  father's  house.  For  I  have  five  brethren,  that  he 
may  testify  to  them,  lest  they  also  come  into  this 
place  of  torments.  And  Abraham  said  to  him  : 
They  have  Moses  and  the  prophets :  let  them  hear 
them.  But  he  said:  No,  father  Abraham,  but  if 
any  one  shall  go  to  them  from  the  dead,  they  will  do 
penance*  And  he  said  to  him:  If  they  hear  not 


II.   WEEK  OF  LENT.  *5^ 

Moses  arid  the  prophets,    neither  will  they  believe, 
if  one  should  rise  from  the  dead. 

OFFERT.  Exod.  xxxii. — Moses  prayed  in  the  pre- 
sence of  the  Lord  his  God,  and  said:  Why,  O 
Lord,  art  thou  angry  with  thy  people  ?  Let  the 
wrath  of  thy  soul  be  appeased  :  remember  Abra- 
ham, Isaac,  and  Jacob,  to  whom  thou  didst  swear 
to  give  a  land  flowing  with  milk  and  honey.  And 
the  Lord  was  appeased ;  and  did  not  the  evil  with 
which  he  threatened  hts  people. 

SECRET.  May  the  fast  consecrated  to  thy 
name,  O  Lord,  sanctify  us  by  this  present  sacrifice, 
that  we  may  experience  inwardly  the  effects  of 
what  we  outwardly  profess  by  our  fast.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Jo/m  vi,—He  that  eateth  my  flesh,  and 
(Irinketh  my  blood,  abideth  in  me,  and  I  in  him, 
saith  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.    Gratia.— May   thy  grace,    O  Lord, 
(•seech   thee,    never    abandon    us,    but    ever 
make  us  intent  on  thy  holy  service,  and  always  pro- 
cure us  thy  help.     Thro\ 

Let  us  pray.  Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Aflesto.--- Be  favourable,  O  Lord,  to 
thy  servants,  and  hear  their  prayers  in  the  grant  of 
everlasting  mercy ;  that  glorying  in  thee  their  Crea* 
tor  and  Governor,  they  may  have  all  things  per* 
fected  and  perpetuated  to  them.  Thro'. 

FRIDAY. 
INTROIT.  JP*.  xvi. 

BUT  I  will  appear  with  the  justice  of  my  cause 
in   thy  sight  ;    I  shall   be  satisfied  when  thy 
glory  shall  appear.     Ps.  Hear,  O  God,  the  justice  of 
my  cause;  hearken  to  my  prayer.     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.   Da  qitcesiL7nu.it.-~ Grant,  ()  Almighty 
fiod,  that,  being  purified  by  this  fast,  we  may  come 
to   the  -approaching  solemnity  with  clean  hearts, 
' 

O 


158  FRIDAY   IN    THE 

LESSON.  Gen*  xxxvii.  6.  22.— -In  those  days: 
Joseph  said  to  his  brethren :  Hear  my  dream,  which  F 
have  dreamed  :  I  thought  we  were  binding  sheaves 
in  the  field ;  agd  my  sheaf  arose,  as  it  were,  and 
stood,  and  your  sheaves  standing  about  bowed 
down  before  my  sheaf.  His  brethren  answered . 
Shalt  thou  be  our  king?  or  shall  we  be  subject 
to  thy  dominion  ?  Therefore  this  matter  of  his 
dreams  and  words  ministered  nourishment  to  their 
envy  and  hatred.  He  dreamed  also  another  dream, 
which  he  told  his  brethren,  saying  :  I  saw  in  a 
dream,  as  it  were  the  sun,  and  the  moon,  and  ele- 
ven stars,  worshipping  me.  And  when  he  had  told 
this  to  his  father,  and  brethren,  his  father  rebuked 
him,  and  said  :  What  meaneth  this  dream  that  thou 
hast  dreamed  ?  shall  I  and  thy  mother,  and  thy  bre- 
thren, worship  thee  upon  the  earth  ?  His  brethren 
therefore  envied  him  :  but  his  father  considered  the 
thing  with  himself.  And  when  his  brethren  abode 
in  Sichem,  feeding  their  father's  flocks,  Israel  said 
to  him :  Thy  brethren  feed  thy  sheep  in  Sichem  : 
come,  I  will  send  thee  to  them.  And  when  he  an- 
swered :  I  am  ready  :  he  said  to  him  :  Go,  and  see 
if  all  things  be  well  with  thy  brethren,  and  the 
cattle  :  and  bring  me  word  again  what  is  doing.  So 
being  sent  from  the  vale  of  Hebron,  he  came  to  Si- 
chem. And  a  man  found  him  there  wandering  in 
the  field,  and  asked  him  what  he  sought.  But  he 
answered:  I  seek  my  brethren  :  tell  me  where  they 
feed  their  flocks.  And  the  man  said  to  him  :  They 
are  departed  from  this  place  :  for  1  heaid  them  say  : 
let  us  go  to  Dothain.  And  Joseph  went  forward 
after  his  brethren,  and  found  them  in  Dothain.  And 
when  they  saw  him  afar  off,  before  he  came  nigh 
them,  they  thought  to  kill  him  :  and  said  one  to 
another,  Behold  the  dreamer  cometh,  come  let  us 
kill  him,  and  cast  him  into  some  old  pit ;  and  we 
\villsay;  some  evil  beast  hath  devoured  himj  and 


II,  WEEK  OF  LENT.  159 

then  it  shall  appear  what  his  dreams  avail  him. 
And  Reuben  hearing  this,  endeavoured  to  deliver 
him  out  of  their  hands,  and  said;  Do  not  take 
away  his  life,  nor  shed  his  blood  :  but  cast  him  into 
this  pit,  that  is  in  the  wilderness,  and  keep  your 
hands  harmless :  now  he  said  this,  being  desirous 
to  deliver  him  out  of  their  hands,  and  restore  him  to 
his  father. 

GRAB.  Ps.  cxix.— I  cried  out  to  the  Lord  in  my 
distress,  and  he  heard  me.  ^.Deliver  my  soul,  O  Lord, 
from  wicked  lips,  and  from  a  deceitful  tongue. 

TRACT,  Ps.  cii.  Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117. 

(000p£lU  Matt.  xxi.  33.  46.—^  that  time 
Jesus  spoke  to  the  multitude,  of  the  Jews,  and  to  the 
chief  priests  this  parable ;  There  was  a  certain  house- 
holder who  planted  a  vineyard,  and  made  a  hedge 
round  about  it,  and  dug  in  it  a  wine-press,  and 
built  a  tower,  and  let  it  out  to  husbandmen  : 
and  went  into  a  strange  country.  And  when  the 
time  of  the  fruits  drew  near,  he  sent  his  servants  to 
the  husbandmen,  that  they  might  receive  the  fruits 
of  it.  And  the  husbandmen  laid  hands  on  his  ser- 
vants, and  beat  one,  and  killed  another,  and  stoned 
another.  Again  he  sent  other  servants  more  than  the 
former:  and  they  did  to  them  iu  like  manner.  And  last 
of  all  he  sent  them  his  Son,  saying :  They  will  reve- 
rence my  Son :  But  when  the  husbandmen  saw 
the  Son,  they  said  among  themselves:  This  is  the 
heir,  come  let  us  kill  him,  and  we  shall  have  his 
inheritance.  And  taking  him  they  cast  him  forth 
out  of  the  vineyard,  and  killed  him.  When  the 
lord  therefore  of  the  vineyard  shall  come,  what  will 
he  do  to  those  husbandmen?  They  say  to  him:  lie 
will  bring  those  evil  men  to  an  evil  end:  and  will 
let  out  his  vineyard  to  other  husbandmen,  that  shall 
render  him  the  fruit  in  due  season.  Jesus  saith  to 
them  :  Have  you  never  read  in  the  Scriptures :  "  The 
stone  which  the  builders  rejected,  the  same  is  become 
Oa 


J6o  SATURDAY  IN  THE 

the  head  of  the  corner  ?  By  the  Lord  this  hath  been 
done,  and  it  is  wonderful  in  our  eyes."  Therefore 
I  say  to  you,  the  kingdom  of  God  shall  be  taken 
from  you,  and  shall  be  given  to  a  nation  bringing 
forth  the  fruits*  thereof.  And  whosoever  shall  fall 
on  this  stone,  shall  be  broken  :  but  on  whomsoever 
it  shall  fall,  it  will  grind  him  to  powder.  And 
\vhenthe  chief  priests  and  Pharisees  had  heard  his 
parables,  they  understood  that  he  spoke  of  them. 
And  seeking  to  lay  hands  on  him,  they  feared  the 
multitude;  because  they  held  him  as  a  prophet. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxix.—  Look  down  to  my  aid,  O 
Lord,  let  them  be  confounded  and  ashamed  toge- 
ther who  seek  my  life  :  look  down  to  my  aid,  O 
Lord. 

SECRET  May  the  effects  of  this  warfare,  O 
Lord,  remain  in  us,  and  be  increased  by  good 
\vorks.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xi.—  Thou  wilt  defend  us,  O  Lord, 
and  protect  us  both  now  and  for  evermore. 

P.  COMM.  Fac  nos.  —  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that,  having  received  this  pledge  of  our 
eternal  salvation,  we  may  so  direct  our  course  thereto, 
as  happily  to  arrive  at  it.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Da  quasumus,—  Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  to  thy  people  health  both  of  soul 
and  body,  that  by  the  continual  practice  of  good 
works,  they  may  always  be  defended  by  thy  power- 
ful protection  Thro'. 

SATURDAY. 
INTROIT.    Ps.  xviii. 

HE  law  of  the  Lord  is  unspotted  converting 
souls  ;    the  testimony  of  the  Lord  is  faithful 
wisdom  to  little  ones.     Ps.  The  heavens  pub- 


.        .  - 

lish the  glory  of  God  ;  and  the  firmament  declareth 
the  works  of  his  hands.     V.  Glory. 


IT.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  l6l 

COLLECT.  Da  qua.'sumus. — Grant,  OLord,  we 
beseech  thee,  this  saving  effect  of  our  fast,  that  the 
chastisement  of  the  flesh,  which  we  have  under- 
taken, may  become  the  improvement  of  our  souls. 
Thro'. 

LESSON.     Gen.    xxvii.   5.  39. — In    those  days  ; 
Rebecca  said  to  her  son  Jacob :  I  heard  thy  father 
talking  with   Esau  thy  brother,  and  saying  to  him: 
Bring  me  of  thy  hunting,  and  make  me  meats  that 
I  may  eat,  and  bless  thee  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord, 
before  I  die.     Now  therefore,  my  son,  follow  my 
counsel :  and  go  thy  way  to  thy  flock,   bring  me 
two  kids  of  the  best,  that  I  may  make  of  them  meat 
for  thy  father,   such  as   he  gladly  eateth :    which 
when  thou  hast  brought  in,  and  he  hath  eaten,  he 
may  bless  thee  before  he  die.     And  he  answered  her; 
Thou  knowest  that  Esan  my  brother  is  a  hairy  man, 
and  1  am  smooth :  if  my  father  shall  feel  me,  and 
perceive  it,  I  fear  lest  he  will  think  I  would  have 
mocked  him,  and  1  shall  bring  upon  me  a  curse 
instead  of  a  blessing.      And  his  mother  said  to  "him  : 
Upon  me  be  this  curse,  my  son  r  only  hear  thou  my 
voice,  and  go,  fetch  me   the  things  which  I    have 
said.  He  went,  and  brought,  and  gave  them  to  his  mo- 
ther.     She  dressed  meat  such  as  she  knew  his  father 
liked.     And  she  put  on  him  very  good  garments  of 
Esau,   which  she  had  at  home  with  her  :  and  the 
little  skins  of  the  kids  she  put  about  his  hands,  and 
covered  the  bare  of  his  neck.     And  she  gave  him 
the  savoury  meat,  and  delivered  him  bread  that  she 
had  baked.     Which  when   he  had   carried  in,    he 
said  :  My  father  ?  But  he  answered  :  1  hear.     Who 
art  thou  my  son  ?    And  Jacob  said  :    L  am  Esau  thy 
first  bom  :  I  have  done  as  thou  didst  command  me  : 
arise,  sit  and  eat^of  my  venison,  that  thy  soul  may 
bless  me.     And  Isaac  said  to  his  son  :    How  couldst 
thou  find  it  so  quickly,  my  son  ?  He  answered  ;    It 
03 


l62  SATURDAY  IN  THE 

was  the  will  of  God  that  what  I  sought  came  quickly 
in  my  way.  And  Isaac  said :    Come  hither,  that  I 
may  feel  thee  my  son,  and  may  prove  whether  thou 
be  my  son  Esau  or  no  :  He  came  near  to  his  father, 
and  when  he  had  felt  him,  Isaac  said:  The  voice 
indeed  is  the  voice  of  Jacob,  but  the  hands,  are  the 
hands  of  Esau.    And  he  knew  him  not,  because  his 
hairy  hands  made  him  like  to  the  eider.     Then  bles- 
sing him,  he  said;    Art  thou  my  son  Esau?  He  an- 
swered :  I  am.  Then  he  said:  Bring  me  the  meats  of 
thy  hunting,my  son,  that  my  soul  may  bless  thee.  And 
when  they  were  brought  and  he  had  eaten,  he  of- 
fered him  wine  also,  which  after  he  had  drunk,  he 
said  to  him :  Come  near  me,  and  give  me  a  kiss, 
Rry  son.     He  came  near,  and  kissed  him.     And  im- 
mediately as  he  smelled  the  fragrant  smell  of  his 
garments,   blessing  him,  he  said:  Behold  the  smell 
of  my  son  is  as  the  smell  of  a  plentiful  field,  which 
the  Lord  hath  blessed.     God  give  thee  of  the  dew  of 
heaven,  and  of  the  fatness  of  the  earth,  abundance 
of  corn  and  wineJ;.And  let  peoples  serve  thee,  and 
tribes  worship  theeV.  be  thou  lord  of  thy  brethren, 
and   let  thy   mother's  children  bow    down  before 
thee.     Cursed  be  he  that  curseth  thee:    and  let  him 
that  blesseth  thee  be  filled  with  blessings.     Isaac  had 
scarce  ended  his  words,  when  Jacob  being  now  gone 
out  abroad,  Esau  came,  and  brought  in  to  his  father 
meats  made  of  what  he  had  taken  in  hunting,  say- 
ing :  Arise,  my  father,  and  eat  of  thy  son's  venison  : 
that  thy  soul  may  bless  me.   And  Isaac  said  to  him  ; 
Why  !    who  arc  thou  ?    He  answered  ;    lam  thy 
first- born  son  Esau.     Isaac  was  struck  with  fear,  and 
astonished  exceedingly :     and    wondering    beyond 
what  can  fee  believed,  said:    Who  is  he  that  even 
now  brought  me  venison  that  he  had  taken,  and  I 
ate  ot  all  before  thou  earnest?  and  I  have  blessed 
him,  and  he  shall  be  blessed.    Esau  having  heard  his 


II.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  163 

father's  words,  roared  out  with  a  great  cry  :  and 
being  in  a  consternation,  said :  Bless  me  also,  my 
father.  And  he  said:  Thy  brother  came  deceitfully 
and  got  thy  blessing.  But  he  said  again :  Rightly  is 
his  name  called  Jacob:  for  he  hath  supplanted  me 
lo  this  second  time  :  my  first  birth- right  he  took 
away  before,  and  now  this  second  time  he  hath 
stolen  away  my  blessing.  And  again  he  said  to  his 
father :  Hast  thou  not  reserved  me  also  a  blessing  ? 
Isaac  answered :  I  have  appointed  him  thy  lord,  and 
have  made  all  his  brethren  his  servants :  I  have  esta- 
blished him  with  corn  and  oil,  and  after  this,  what 
shall  I  do  more  for  thee  my  son  ?  And  Esau  said  to 
him  :  Hast  thou  only  one  blessing,  father  ?  I  be- 
seech thee,  bless  me  also.  And  when  he  wept  with  a 
loud  cry,  Isaac  being  moved,  said  to  him  :  In  the 
fat  of  the  earth,  and  in  the  dew  of  heaven  from 
above  shall  thy  blessing  be. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xci.-  It  is  good  to  praise  the  Lord, 
and  sing  to  thy  name,  O  thou,  the  Most  High! 
V.  To  publish  thy  mercy  in  the  morning,  and  tliy 
truth  in  the  night. 

CD00pCl+  Luke  xv.  IT.  32. — At  that  time: 
Ft.-?/.*  spoke  to  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees  this  parable  : 
A  certain  man  had  two  sons :  and  the  younger  of 
them  said  to  his  father:  Father,  give  me  the  portion 
of  substance  that  falleth  to  me.  And  he  divided 
unto  them  his  substance.  And  not  many  days  after, 
the  younger  son  gathering  all  together,  went  abroad 
into  a  far  country  :  and  there  wasted  his  substance 
with  living  riotously.  And  after  he  had  spent  all, 
there  came  a  mighty  famine  in  that  country,  and  he 
began  to  be  in  want.  And  he  went  and  joined  him- 
self  to  one  of  the  citizens  of  that  country.  And  he 
sent  him  into  his  farm  to  feed  swine.  And  he  would 
fain  have  filled  his  belly  with  the  husks  the  swine  did 
eat  5  and  no  man  gave  unto  him.  And  returning  to 


164  SATURDAY  IN  TflE,   &C, 

himself  he  said:  How  many  hired  servants  in  my 
lather's  house  have  plenty  of  bread,  and  I  here 
perish  with  hunger?  I  will  arise,  and  will  goto  my 
father,  and  say  to  him:  Father,  I  have  sinned  against 
heaven,  and  before  thee:  I  am  not  now  worthy  to  be 
called  thy  son:  make  me  as  one  of  thy  hired  servants. 
And  rising  up  he  went  to  his  father.  And  when  he  was 
yet  a  great  way  off,  his  father  saw  him,  and  was 
moved  w  ith  compassion,  and  running  to  him  fell 
upon  his  neck  and  kissed  him.  And  the  son  said  to 
him;  Father,  I  have  sinned  against  heaven,  and  be. 
fore  thee:  lam  not  now  worthy  to  be  called  thy 
son.  But  the  father  said  to  his  servants :  Bring  forth 
quickly  the  first  robe,  and  put  it  on  him,  and  put  a 
ring  on  his  finger,  and  shoes  on  his  feet :  and  bring 
hither  the  fatted  calf,  and  kill  it,  and  let  us  eat  and  ' 
make  merry  :  because  this  my  son  was  dead,  and  is 
come  to  life  again  :  he  was  lost,  and  is  found.  And 
they  began  to  be  merry.  Now  his  eldest  son  was  in 
the  field:  and  when  he  came  and  drew  nigh  to  the 
house,  he  heard  music  and  dancing  :  and  he  called 
one  of  the  servants,  and  asked  what  these  things 
jneant.  And  he  said  to  him :  Thy  brother  is  come, 
and  thy  father  hath  killed  the  fatted  calf,  because  he 
hath  received  him  safe.  And  he  was  angry,  and 
would  not  go  in.  His  father  therefore  coming  out 
began  to  entreat  him.  And  he  anwering,  said  to  his 
father:  Behold,  forso  many  years  do  I  serve  thee,and 
J  have  never  transgressed  thy  commandments,  and  yet 
thou  hast  never  given  me  a  kid  to  make  merry  with 
my  friends :  but  as  soon  as  this  thy  son  is  come,  who 
hath  devoured  his  substance  with  harlots,  thou  hast 
"killed  for  him  the  fatted  calf.  But  he  said  to  him  : 
Son,  thou  art  always  with  me,  and  all  I  have  is 
thine.  But  it  was  fit  we  should  make  merry  and  be 
glad,  for  this  thy  brother  was  dead,  and  is  come 
to  life  acrain  ;  he  was  lost,  and  is  found. 
OFFERT,  P/,  xii,— Enlighten  my  eyes  that  I 


III.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT.  165 

sJeep  not  in  death  ;  that  my  enemy  may  never  say : 
I  have  overcome  him. 

Si:CRET.  Mercifully  grant  us,  O  Lord,  by  this 
holy  sacrifice,  that  we,  who  desire  to  be  freed  from 
our  own  sins,  may  not  be  burdened  with  those  of 
others.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Luke  xv.— Son,  thou  oughtest  to  rejoice 
because  thy  brother  was  dead,  and  is  come  to  life 
again  ;  he  was  lost,  and  is  found. 

P.  COMM.  Sacrammti.—  May  the  sacred  taste  of 
this  thy  sacrament,  O  Lord,  penetrate  the  innermost 
recesses  of  our  hearts,  and  make  us  plentifully  par- 
take of  its  effects.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray*    Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Fannlittm.—  Protect,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
srech  thee,  thy  family  by  thy  continual  goodness, 
that  as  it  relieth  on  the  hopes  of  thy  heavenly  grace, 
so  it  may  be  defended  by  thy  heavenly  aid-  Thro'. 

III.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT. 
1NTROIT.  Ps.  xxiv. 

MY    eyes    are    ever     flCULI  mei  semper  ad 
towards  the  Lord,     ^    Dominum,   qaia  ipse 
for  he  will  draw  my  feet     evcllet    dz    laqueo    pcdes 
out  of  the   snare:  look    tntos  :   respice  in  met   et 
down  on    me,   and  pity     miserere  wet  guoniam  uni- 
me,  for  I  am  alone  and     cus  ct  pauper  sum  ego. 
poor.      Ps.  To  thee,  O     Ps.    Ad  te,  Duinine,   h- 
Lord,    have  1   lifted   up     vwi  animam  uuam i  Deus 
my  soul  :   in  thee,  O  my     meus,  in   te  confido,  non 
God,  I  put  my  trust,  let     erube&eam. 
me  not  be  ashamed,     r.         V.  Gloria. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.  Qudsunws. — Be  attentive,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  to  the  prayers  of  thy  ser- 
vants: and  stretch  forth  the  arm  of  thy  divine  ma- 
jesty in  our  defence.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,    fyhcs.   v.  i,  9.— Br*M/™  ;    Be  ye 


166  III.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT. 

therefore  followers  of  God,  as  most  dear  children  : 
and  walk  in  love,  as  Christ  also  loved  us,  and  hath 
delivered  himself  for  us,  an  oblation  and  sacrifice  to 
God,  for  an  odour  of  sweetness.  But  fornication 
and  all  uncleanness,  or  covetousness,  let  it  not  so 
much  as  be  named  among  you,  as  becometh  saints ; 
nor  obscenity,  nor  foolish  talking,  nor  scurrility, 
which  is  to  no  purpose :  but  rather  giving  of  thanks. 
For  know  ye  this  and  understand,  that  no  fornicator, 
or  unclean,  or  covetous  person  (which  is  serving  of 
idols)  hath  inheritance  in  the  kingdom  of  Christ  and 
of  God.  Let  no  man  deceive  you  with  vain  words. 
For  because  of  these  things  cometh  the  anger  of 
God  upon  the  children  of  unbelief.  Bfc  ye  not  there- 
fore  partakers  with  them.  For  you  were  heretofore 
darkness,  but  now  light  in  the  Lord.  Walk  ye  as 
children  of  the  light.  For  the  fruit  of  the  light  is  in 
all  goodness,  and  justice,  and  truth. 

GRAD.  Ps.  ix. — Arise,  O  Lord,  let  not  man  pre« 
vail :  let  the  nations  be  judged  in  thy  sight.  V.  When 
tho'u  shaltput  my  enemies  to  flight,  then  shall  they 
be  weakened,  and  perish  from  thy  sight. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cxxii. — Ad  te  levavi  oculos  meos, 
qui  habit  as  in  ccelis.  To  thee  have  I  raised  up  my 
eyes,  O  thou,  who  dwellest  in  the  heavens.  V.  Be- 
hold as  the  eyes  of  servants  are  on  the  hands  of  their 
masters.  V.  And  as  the  eyes  of  the  hand- maid  are  on 
the  hands  of  her  mistress:  so  are  our  eyes  on  the 
Lord,  until  he  have  mercy  on  us.  V.  Have  mercy  on 
us,  O  Lord,  have  mercy  on  us. 

(EOgpeU  Luke  xi.  14.  28.— At  that  time: 
Jesus  was  casting  out  a  devil,  and  the  same  was 
dumb,  and  when  he  had  cast  out  the  devil,  the  dumb 
spoke :  and  the  multitude  were  in  admiration  at  it. 
But  some  of  them  said:  he  casteth  out  devils,  by 
Belzebub  the  prince  of  devils.  And  others  tempting, 
asked  of  him  a  sign  from  heaven.  But  he  seeing 


Ill,  SUNDAY  IN  LENT.  167 

their  thoughts,  said  to  them :  Every  kingdom  divided 
against  itself,  shall  be  brought  to  Desolation,  and 
house  upon  house  shall  fall.  And  if  Satan  shall  be 
divided  against  himself  how  shall  his  kingdom  stand? 
because  you  say,  that  through  Belzebub  I  cast  out 
devils.  Now  if  I  cast  out  devils  by  Belzebub:  by 
whom  do  your  children  cast  them  out  ?  Therefore 
they  shall  be  your  judges.  But  if  L  by  the  finger  of 
God  cast  out  devils:  doubtless  the  kingdom  of  God 
is  come  upon  you.  When  a  strong  man  armed 
keepeth  his  court,  those  things  which  he  possesseth 
are  in  peace.  But  if  a  stronger  than  he  come  upon 
him  and  overcome  him,  he  will  take  away  all  his 
armour  wherein  he  trusted,  and  will  distribute  his 
spoils.  He  that  is  not  with  me,  is  against  me  j  and 
he  that  gathereth  not  with  me,  scattereth.  When 
the  unclean  spirit  is  gone  out  of  a  man,  he  walketti 
through  places  without  water,  seeking  rest;  and  not 
finding,  he  saith :  1  will  return  into  my  house 
whence  I  came  out.  And  when  he  is  come,  he 
findeth  it  swept  and  garnished.  Then  he  goeth  and 
taketh  with  him  seven  other  spirits  more  wicked  than 
himself,  and  entering  in  they  dwell  there.  And  the 
last  state  of  that  man  becometh  worse  than  the  first. 
And  it  came  to  pass,  as  he  spoke  these  things,  a 
certain  woman  from  the  crowd  lifting  up  her  voice, 
said  to  him  :  Blessed  is  the  womb  that  bore  thee, 
and  the  paps  that  gave  thee  suck.  But  he  said  : 
Yea  rather,  blessed  are  they  who  hear  the  word  of 
GoJ,  and  keep  it.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxviii.— The  laws  of  the  Lord  are 
just,  and  give  joy  to  the  heart;  his  ordinances  are 
sweeter  than  honey  and  the  honey-comb  ;  thereto; e 
thy  servant  observeth  them. 

SECRET,  May  this  offering,  O  Lord,  we  be. 
secvh  thee,  cleanse  us  from  our  sins,  and  sanctify  the 
bodies  and  souls  of  thy  servants  for  the  celebrating 
of  this  sacrifice.  Thro'1, 


i63  MONDAY  IN  THE 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixxxiii. — The  sparrow  hath  found 
itself  a  house,  and  the  turtle-dove  a  nest  to  pnt  her 
young  ones  in;  in  like  manner,  O  Lord  of  armies* 
my  King  and* my  God,  let  my  abode  be  near  thy 
altar:  blessed  are  they  that  dwell  in  thy  house,  they 
shall  praise  thee  for  ever  and  ever. 

P.  COMM.  A  cunctis.— Mercifully,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  deliver  us  from  all  guilt  and  from  all 
danger,  since  thou  adtnittest  us  to  be  partakers  of 
this  great  mystery.  Thro'. 

MONDAY. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  lv.— I  will  praise  God  for  his 
promise,  and  will  thank  the  Lord  for  the  assurances 
he  hath  given  me:  I  will  hope  in  God,  and  not  fear 
what  flesh  can  do  to  me.  l's>  Take  pity  on  me,  O 
God,  for  man  hath  trampled  me  under  foot:  he  hath 
attacked  me  the  whole  day,  and  distressed  me.  F. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.  Cordibuti.~We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  mercifully  to,  pour  forth  thv  grace  into  our 
hearts:  that,  as  we  abstain  from  flesh,  so  we  may 
keep  our  senses  from  all  noxious  excesses.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  4  Kings  v.  i.  15.— In  those  days  ; 
Naaman,  general  of  the  army  of  the  King  of  Syria, 
was  a  great  man  with  his  master,  and  honourable; 
for  by  him  the  Lord  gave  deliverance  to  Syria: 
arid  he  was  a  valiant  man  and  rich,  but  a  leper. 
Now  there  had  gone  out  ro libers  from  Syria,  and 
had  led  away  captive  out  of  the  land  of  Israel  a  little 
maid,  and  she  waited  upon  Naaman's  wife.  And 
she  said  to  her  mistress :  I  wish  my  master  had  been 
with  the  prophet  that  is  in  Samaria  :  he  would  cer- 
tainly have  healed  him  of  the  leprosy  which  he  - 
hath.  Then  Naaman  went  into  his  lord,  and  told 
him,  saying:  Thus  and  thussaith  the  girl,  that  came, 
from  the  land  of  Israel.  And  the  King  of  Svria 
.fcaid  to  him;  Go,  and  I.  w;!l  ?eud  a  letter  to  the 


III.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  169 

Kins  of  Israel.  And  he  departed,  and  took  with 
him  ten  talents  of  silver,  and  six  thousand  pieces  of 
gold,  and  ten  changes  of  raiment,  and  brought 
the  letter  to  the  King  of  Israel,  in  these  words: 
When  thon  shalt  receive  this  letter,  know  that  I  have 
sent  to  thec  Naaman  my  servant,  that  thou  mayest 
'heal  him  of  his  leprosy.  And  when  the  king  of 
Israel  had  read  the  letter,  he  rent  his  garments,  and 
said  :  Am  I  God,  to  be  able  to  kill  and  to  give  life, 
that  this  man  hath  sent  to  me,  to  heal  a  man  of  his 
leprosy?  mark,  and  see  how  he  seeketh  occasion 
against  me.  And  when  Eliseus  the  man  of  God  had 
heard  this,  to  wit,  that  the  King  of  Israel  had  rent 
his  garments,  he  sent  to  him,  saying  ;  Why  hast 
t'.iou  rent  thy  garments?  let  him  come  to  me  and 
let  him  know  that  there  is  a  prophet  in  Israeh  So 
Naaman  came  with  his  horses  and  chariots,  and 
stood  at  the  door  of  the  house  of  Eliseus  :  and  Eli- 
seus sent  a  messenger  to  him,  saying;  Go  and  wash 
soven  times  in  the  Jordan,  and  thy  flesh  shall  recover 
health,  an  1  thou  shalt  be  clean.  Naaman  was  an- 
gry, and  went  away,  saying :  I  thought  he  would 
have  come  out  to  me,  and  standing  would  have  in- 
voked the  name  of  the  Lord  his  God,  and  touched 
with  his  hand  the  place  of  the  leprosy,  and  healed 
me.  A  re  not  the  Abana,  and  the  Pharphar,  rivers 
of  Damascus,  better  than  all  the  waters  of  Israel, 
that  I  may  wash  in  them,  and  be  made  clean  ?  So 
as  he  turned,  and  was  going  away  with  indignation, 
his  servants  came  to  him,  and  said  to  him  :  Father, 
if  the  prophet  had  bid  thee  do  some  great  thing, 
surely  thou  shouldst  have  done  it ;  how  much  rather 
what  he  now  hath  said  to  thee  ;  Wash,  and  thou 
shalt  be  clean  ?  Then  he  went  down,  and  washed 
in  the  Jordan  seven  times,  according  to  the  word  of 
{.he  man  of  God  ;  and  his  flesh  was  restored,  like  the 
of  a  little  child,  and  was  made  clean,  And 
P 


'7°  MONDAY  IN  THE  III.  WEEK,   &C. 

returning  to  the  man  of  God  with  ail  his  train,  lie 
came  and  stood  before  him,  and  said :  In  truth  I 
know  there  is  no  other  God  in  ail  the  earth,  but 
only  in  Israel.  ^ 

GRAD.  Ps,  lv.— I  have  laid  open  to  thee,  O  God, 
my  life ;  and  thou  hast  considered  my  tears.  V.  Take 
pity  on  me,  O  Lord,  for  man  hath  trampled  me 
under  foot;  he  hath  attacked  me  the  whole  day, 
and  distressed  me. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cii. — Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117- 

d£>Q0p0l+  Luke  iv.  23.  30.—^*  that  time. 
Jesus  said  to  the  Pharisees :  Doubtless  you  will  say  to 
me  this  similitude  :  Physician  heal  thyself :  as  great 
things  as  we  have  heard  done  in  Capharnaum,  do 
also  here  in  thy  own  country.  And  he  said  :  Amen 
Isay  to  you,  that  no  prophet  is  accepted  in  his  own 
country.  In  truth  I  say  to  you,  there  were  many 
widows  in  the  days,  of  Elias  in  Israel,  when  heaven 
was  shut  up  three  years  and  six  months:  when  there 
was  a  great  famine  throughout  all  the  land:  and  to 
none  of  them  was  Elias  sent,  but  to  a  widow  at 
Sarephta  of  Sidon.  And  there  were  many  lepers  in 
Israel  in  the  time  of  Eliseus  the  prophet :  and  not  one 
of  them  was  cleansed  but  Naaman  the  Syrian.  And 
all  they  in  the  synagogue,  hearing  these  things  were 
filled  with  anger.  And  they  rose  up  and  thrust  him 
out  of  the  city ;  and  they  brought  him  to  the 
brow  of  the  hill,  whereon  their  city  was  built,  that 
they  might  cast  him  down  headlong.  But  he  passing 
through  the  midst  of  them,  went  his  way. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  livv-.Hear  my  prayer,  O  God, 
and  despise  not  my  petition  5  look  down  upon  me, 
and  graciously  hear  me, 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  Lord,  that  the  offering  we 
make  to  thee,  as  a  mark  of  our  homage,  may  be- 
come to  us  a  sacrament  available  to  our  salvation* 
Thro'. 


TUESDAY  IN  THE  III.  WEEK,  &C.  lyi 

COMM.  Ps.  xiii.— Who  will  send  out  from  S:on 
the  salvation  of  Israel  ?  When  the  Lord  shall  put  an 
end  to  the  captivity  of  his  people,  Jacob  shall  leap 
for  joy,  and  Israel  shall  rejoice. 

P.  COMM.  Prxsta,  qiumnnus.— Grant,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  O  Almighty  and  merciful  God,  that 
what  we  take  with  our  mouths,  we  may  receive 
with  pure  minds.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.    Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  SubTcniat.—May  thy  mercy,  O  Lord, 
assist  us,  that,  by  thy  protection,  we  may  be  de- 
livered from  the  dangers  of  sin  that  surround  us,  and 
so  brought  to  eternal  happiness.  Thro'. 

TUESDAY. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  xvi.— I  have  cried  to  thee,  for 
thou,  O  Lord,  hast  hoard  me:  O  incline  thine 
ear  unto  me,  O  hear  my  prayer.  Keep  me,  O 
Lord,  as  the  apple  of  thine  eye,  and  protect  me 
under  the  shadow  of  thy  wings.  Ps.  Hear,  O  Lord, 
the  justice  of  my  cause,  and  hearken  to  my  petition. 
F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Exaudi  ?MW.— Graciously  hear  us,  O 
Almighty  and  merciful  God,  and  grant  us  the  gift 
of  salutary  continence.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  4  Kings  iv.  i.  7.—  In  those  days :  A 
certain  woman  of  the  wives  of  the  prophets  cried  to 
Elisens,  saying:  Thy  servant  my  husband  is  dead, 
and  thou  knowest  that  thy  servant  was  one  that 
feared  God,  and  behold  the  creditor  is  come  to  take 
away  my  two  sons  to  serve  him.  And  Elisens  said 
to  lu  r :  What  wilt  thou  have  me  do  for  thee :  Tell 
me  what  hast  thou  in  thy  house?  And  she  answered  : 
I  thy  handmaid  have  nothing  in  my  house  but  a 
little  oil,  to  anoint  me.  And  he  said  to  her :  Go, 
borrow  of  all  thy  neighbours  empty  vessels,not  a  few. 
And  go  in,  and  shut  thy  door,  when  thou  art  within, 
with  thy  sons:  and  pour  out  thereof  into  all  those 
Pa 


*72  TUESDAY  IN  THE  III.  WEEK,  &C. 

vessels:  and  when  they  are  full,  take  them  away* 
So  the  woman  went,  and  shut  the  door  upon  her, 
and  upon  her  sons:  they  brought  her  the  vessels,  and 
she  poured  inx  And  when  the  vessels  were  full, 
she  said  to  her  son  ;  Bring  me  yet  a  vessel.  And  he  an- 
swered: I  have  no  more.  And  the  oil  stood.  And 
she  came  and  told  the  man  of  God.  And  he  said  : 
Go,  sell  the  oil,  and  pay  the  creditor:  and  thou 
and  thy  sons  live  of  the  rest. 

GRAD.  Ps,  xvih. — Cleanse  me,  O  Lord,  from 
my  hidden  sins ;  and  from  the  sins  of  others  spare 
thy  servant.  V.  If  these  rule  not  in  me,  then  shall  I 
be  without  spot  j  and  cleansed  from  enormous  guilt. 
d£?00p£U  Matt,  xviii.  i  5.  22.—  At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  If  thy  brother  shall  offend 
against  thee,  go,  and  reprove  him  between  thee  and 
him  alone.  If  he  shall  hear  thee,  thou  shalt  gain 
thy  brother.  But  it  he  will  not  hear  thee,  take  with 
thee  one  or  two  more:  that  in  the  mouth  of  two  or 
three  witnesses  every  word  may  stand.  And  if  he 
will  not  hear  thee,  tell  the  Church.  And  if  he  will 
not  hear  the  Church,  let  him  be  to  thee  as  the 
heathen  and  the  publican-  Amen  I  say  to  you, 
whatsoever  you  shall  bind  upon  earth,  shall  be 
bound  also  in  heaven  :  and  whatsoever  you  shall 
loose  upon  earth,  shall  be  loosed  also  in  heaven. 
Again  I  say  to  you,  that  if  two  of  you  shall  agree  upon 
earth,  concerning  any  thing  whatsoever  they  shall 
ask,  it  shall  be  done  for  them  by  my  Father  who  is 
in  heaven.  For  where  there  are  two  or  three  ga- 
thered together  in  my  name,  there  am  1  in  the  midst 
of  them.  Then  Peter  came  unto  him,  and  said: 
Lord,  how  often  shall  my  brother  offend  against 
me,  and  I  forgive  him  >  till  seven  times  ?  Jesus  saith 
to  him:  I  say  not  to  thee  till  seven  times  j  but  till 
seventy  times  seven  times. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxvii.— The  right   hand  of   the 


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Lord  hath  exerted  its  strength,  the  right  hand  of  the 
Lord  hath  raised  me  up:  I  shall  not  now  die,  but 
live :  and  publish  the  works  of  the  Lord. 

SECRET.  May  we  receive,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  by  these  sacraments,  the  effect  of  our  re- 
demption \  so  that,  by  means  thereof,  we  may 
withdraw  from  all  human  excesses,  and  thou  mayest 
bestow  upon  us  the  gift  of  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Pi.xiv.—Who  is  it,  O  Lord,  that  is  to 
dwell  in  thy  tabernacle?  Or  who  is  it,  that  is  to 
abide  on  thy  holy  mountain  ?  lie  that  walketh 
without  blemish,  and  doth  righteousness. 

P.  COMM.  &icm.~- Being  cleansed,  O  Lord,  by 
these  holy  mysteries,  grant  us,  we  beseech  thee, 
both  pardon  and  grace.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.    Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Tact.— Defend  us,  O  Lord,  by  thy 
protection,  and  ever  preserve  us  from  all  iniquity. 
Thro'. 

WEDNESDAY. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  *xx.---But  I  have  hoped  in  the 
Lord:  I  will  be  glad,  and  rejoice  in  thy  mercy  ;  for 
thou  hast  considered  my  distress.  Ps.  In  thee,  O 
Lord,  have  I  hoped,  let  me  never  be  confounded: 
deliver  me  in  thy  justice,  and  rescue  me.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Prcesta  nobis.-.. Grant,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  being  improved  by  this  whole- 
some fast,  we  may  abstain  from  all  pernicious  vice, 
and,  by  that  means,  more  easily  obtain  thy  mercy. 
Thro'. 

LESSON.  Exod.  xx.  12.  24.—  Thus  saith  the 
lard  God :  Honour  thy  father  and  thy  mother,  that 
thou  maycst  be  lonsj-  lived  upon  the  land,  which  th<i 
Lord  thy  God  will  give  thee.  Thou  shalt  not  kill. 
Thou  sh'ult  not  commit  adultery.  Thou  shalt  not 
Steal.  Thou  shalt  not  bear  false  witness  against  thy 


174  WEDNESDAY  IN  THE 

neighbour.  Thou  shalt  not  covet  thy  neighbour's 
house,  neither  shalt  thou  desire  his  wife,  nor  his 
servant,  nor  his  hand-maid,  nor  his  ox,  nor  his  ass, 
nor  any  thing  that  is  his.  And  all  the  people  saw 
the  voices  and* the  flames,  and  the  sound  of  the 
trumpet,  and  the  mount  smoking;  and  being  ter- 
rified and  struck  with  fear,  they  stood  afar  off, 
saying  to  Moses;  Speak  thou  tons,  and  we  will 
hear  :  let  not  the  Lord  speak  to  us  lest  we  die.  And 
Moses  said  to  the  people:  Fear  not:  for  God  is 
come  to  prove  yon,  and  that  the  dread  of  him  might 
be  in  you,  and  you  should  not  sin.  And  the  people 
stood  afar  off.  But  Moses  went  to  the  dark  cloud 
wherein  God  was.  And  the  Lord  said  to  Moses : 
Thus  shalt  thou  say  to  the  children  of  Israel :  You 
have  seen  that  I  have  spoken  to  you  from  heaven. 
You  shall  not  make  gods  of  silver,  nor  shall  you 
make  to  yourselves  gods  of  gold.  You  shall  make 
an  altar  of  earth  unto  me,  and  you  shall  offer  upon 
it  your  holocausts  and  peace-offerings,  your  sheep 
and  oxen,  in  every  place  where  the  memory  of  my 
name  shall  be. 

GRAD.  Ps.  vi. — Take  pity  on  me,  O  Lord,  for  1 
am  weak;  heal  roe,  OLorcL  V.  All  my  bones  are 
shaken,  and  my  soul  is  in  great  distress. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117. 

<2500p0U  Matt.  xv.  i.  20, — At  that  time: 
The  Scribes  and  Pharisees  came  from  Jerusalem  to 
Jesus,  and  said  to  him:  Why  do  thy  disciples,  trans-, 
gress  the  traditon  of  the  ancients  ?  For  they  wash, 
not  their  hands  when  they  eat  bread.  But  he  an- 
swering,  said  to  them;  Why  do  you  also  transgress, 
the  commandment  of  God  for  your  tradition  ?  For 
God  said  :  "Honour  thy  father  and  mother;"  and, 
**  he  that  shall  curse  father  or  mother,  let  him  die  the 
death.'*  But  you  say  :  Whosoever  shall  say  to  his 
father  or  mother,  The  gift  whatsoever  proceedeth 


ITT.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  175 

from  me,  shall  profit  thee.  And  he  shall  not  ho- 
nonr  his  father  or  mother;  and  you  have  made 
void  the  commandment  of  God  for  your  tradition. 
Ye  hypocrites,  wfil  has  Isaias  prophesied  of  you, 
saying:  "This  people  honourcth  me  with  their  lips, 
but  their  heart  is  far  from  me.  And  in  vain  do  they 
worship  me,  teaching  doctrines  and  commandments 
of  men.'*  And  having  called  together  the  multitudes 
unto  him,  he  said  to  them:  Rear  ye  and  under- 
stand. Not  that  which  goeth  into  the  mouth,  de- 
fileth  a  man:  but  what  cometh  out  of  the  mouth, 
this  defileth  a  man.  Then  came  his  disciples,  and 
said  to  him :  Dost  thou  know  that  the  Pharisees, 
when  they  heard  this  word,  were  scandalised  ?  But 
he  answering,  said;  Every  plant  which  my  heavenly 
Father  hath  not  planted,  shall  be  rooted  up.  Let 
them  alone ;  they  are  blind,  and  leaders  of  the 
blind.  And  if  the  blind  lead  the  blind,  both  fall 
into  the  pit.  And  Peter  answering,  said  to  him: 
Explain  to  us  this  parabte.  But  he  said;  Are  you 
also  yet  without  understanding?  Do  you  not  under- 
stand, that  whatsoever  entereth  into  the  mouth, 
goeth  into  the  belly,  and  is  cast  out  into  the  privy  ? 
But  the  things  which  proceed  out  of  the  mouth, 
come  forth  from  the  heart,  and  those  things  defile  a 
man.  For  out  of  the  heart  proceed  evil  thoughts, 
murders,  adulteries,  fornications,  thefts,  false  testi- 
monies, blasphemies.  These  are  the  things  that 
defile  a  man.  But  to  eat  with  unwashed  hands  doth 
not  defile  a  man. 

OFFERT.  PS.- -Shew  us,  O  Lord,  thy  mercy, 
for  the  glory  of  thy  name:  tor  thy  mercy  is  sweet. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  prayers  of  thy  people,  together  with  the  offering 
of  these  hosts;  and  while  we  celebrate  these  thy 
mysteries,  defend  us  from  all  dangers.  Thro1. 

COMM.  Ps«  xv.-— Thou  hast  made  known  to  me 
the  wavs  of  life:  the  sight  of  thee  will  fill  me  with 
joy,  O  Lord, 


1-6  THURSDAY  IN  THE 

P.COMM.  S'lnctifcet  nos.—Mzy  the  heavenly 
food,  \vhichwe  have  taken,  sanctify  us,  O  Lord: 
and  freeing  us  from  all  errors,  make  us  worthy  of 
thy  heavenly  promises.  Thro*. 

'Let  us  pray.    *15ow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Co ncede.--- Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  beg  the  favour  of 
thy  protection,  being  delivered  from  all  evils,  may 
serve  thee  with  a  secure  mind.  Thro'. 

THURSDAY. 

1NTRO1T.  Ps.  Ixvii.— I  am  the  salvation  of  my 
people,  saith  the  Lord :  in  whatever  tribulation 
they  rry  out  to  me,  t  will  hear  them  5  and  I  will  be 
their  Lord  for  ever.  Ps.  Attend,  O  my  people,  to 
my  lawj  hearken  to  the  words  of  my  mouth.  V. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.  Jl/fl£7z;'/?crf..--May  ttvs  sacred  so- 
lemnity  of  thy  servants,  Cosmas  and  Damian,  shew 
thy  greatness/O  Lord;  by  which,  in  thy  unspeaka- 
ble providence,  thou  hast  granted  them  eternal  glory, 
and  us  the  aid  of  their  p  reivers.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Jtr.  vii.  i.  7. — In  t/iu$e  days:  The 
word  that  came  to  Jeremias  from  the  Lord,  saying ; 
stand  in  the  gate  of  the  house  of  the  Lord,  and  pro- 
claim there  this  word,  and  say  :  Hear  ye  the  word 
of  the  Lord,  all  ye  men  of  Juda,  that  enter  in  at 
crates,  to  adore  the  Lord.  Thus  saith  the 
Lord  of  hosts,  the  God  of  Israel :  Make  your  ways 
and  your  d  i ;  ;«nd  I  will  dwell  with  you 

in  this  place.  Trust  not  in  lying  words,  saying: 
The  templeof  theLorJ,  the  temple  of  the  Lori,  it 
is  the  temple  ot  .  For  if  you  will  order 

well  your  ways  and  your  doings ;  it  you  will  execute 
judgment  between  a  man  and  his  neighbour  3  if  you 
-  s  not  the  stranger,  the  fatherless,  and  the  wi- 
dow, and^shed  not  innocent  blood  in  this  place,  and 
walk  not  after  strange  gods  to  your  own  hurt}  I 
dwell  with  you  in  this  pl»w  i  in  the  land 


ITT.  WEEK  OF  IEXT.  1  | 

which  I  gave  to  your  fathers  from  the  beginning  and 
for  evermore,  suith  -^y- 

GRAD.     P:.   cxliv.— The  e  hope  in 

thee,  O  Lord,  and  thou  gi vest  them  their   food  in 
due  season.     V.  Thou  openest  thy  hand,  and  I 
everv  animal  with  thy  blessing. 

COSpCl-     Luke  iv.    38.    44 

Jesus  rising   up  out  of  the  synagogue,  went   into 
Simon's   house.     And  Simon's  wife's    motb 
taken  with  a  fever;  and  they  besought  him  for  her. 
-And  standing  over   her,  he  commanded  the 
and   it  left  her.     And  immediately  rising,  she  mi- 
nistered to  them.     And  when  the  sun  was  down,  all 
they  that  had  any  sick  with  ii  -es,  brought 

them  to  him.     But  he,  laying  his  hands  on 
one  of  them,  healed  them.     And  devils  went  out 
from  many,  crying  out  and  saying;    Thou  art  the 
Son  of  God.  And  he  rebuking  them  suffered  them 
not  to  speak;  tor  they  knew  that  he  wasChrbt.  And 
when  it  was  day,  going  out  he  went  into  a  t 
place:  and  the  multitude  sought  him  and  came  to 
him  ;  and  they  stayed  him  that  he  should  not  depart 
from  them.     And  he  said  to  them:   I  must  preach 
the  kingdom  of  God  to  other  cities  also:  for  there- 
fore am  I  sent.     And  he  was  preaching  in  the 
gogues  of  Galilee. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  138.— If  I  walk  in  the  midst  of 
tribulation,  thou  wilt  quicken  me,  O  Lord;  and 
thou  wilt  stretch  forth  thy  hand  against  the  wrath  of 
iny  encmie^;  and  thy  right  hand  shall  save  me. 

SECRET.     We  otter  thee,  O  Lord,  on  occasion 
of  the  precious  death  of  thy  holv  servants,   this 
fice,  from  which  their  martyrdom,  and  that  c 
others,  took  its  beginning.     T 

COMM.  P$.  rxviii,— Thou  hast  ordained  thy 
commandments  to  be  strictly  kept.  O  that  my 
steps  may  be  ai\  ted  so  as  to  keep  thy 


178  FRIDAY  IN  THE 

P.  COMM.  Sit  nobis.—May  this  thy  sacrament, 
O  Lord,  procure  for  us  that  salvation  which  we 
beg  for  by  the  merits  of  thy  blessed  martyrs  Cosmas 
and  Damian.  Thro'* 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Subjectum..~May  thy  heavenly  mer- 
cy, O  Lord,  always  increase  thy  people,  and  make 
them  ever  obedient  to  thy  commandments.  Thro*. 

FRIDAY. 

INTROlT—.Ps.  Ixxxv.— Shew  me,  O  Lord,  a 
token  for  good,  that  those  that  hate  me  may  see  it, 
and  be  confounded,  because  thou,  O  Lord,  hast 
helped  and  comforted  me.  Ps.  Bend  thine  ear, 
O  Lord,  and  hear  me,  for  I  am  needy  and  poor, 
V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  J#KBW.— Let  thy  kind  favour,  O 
Lord,  accompany  our  fast,  that  as  we  abstain  from 
corporal  food,  so  we  may  likewise  refrain  from  all 
vice.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Numb.  xx.  2.  13. —  In  those  days: 
The  children  of  Israel  came  together  against 
Moses  and  Aaron  ;  and  making  a  sedition,  they 
said :  Give  us  water  to  drink.  And  Moses  and 
Aaron  leaving  the  multitude,  went  into  the  taber- 
nacle of  the  covenant,  and  fell  flat  upon  the 
ground,  and  cried  to  the  Lord,  and  said:  O  Lord 
God,  hear  the  cry  of  this  people,  and  open  to 
them  thy  treasure,  a  fountain  of  living  water,  that 
being  satisfied,  they  may  cease  to  murmur.  And 
the  glory  of  the  Lord  appeared  over  them.  And 
the  Lord  spoke  to  Moses,  saying:  Take  the  rod, 
and  assemble  the  people  together,  thou  and  Aaron 
thy  brother,  and  speak  to  the  rock  before  them,  and 
it  shall  yield  waters.  And  when  thou  hast  brought 
forth  water  out  of  the  rock,  all  the  multitude  and 
their  cattle  shall  drink.  Moses  therefore  took  the 


III.  WEEK  OF  LENTi  179 

rod,  which  was  before  the  Lord,  as  he  had  com- 
manded him,  and  having  gathered  together  the  mul- 
titude before  the  rock,  he  said  to  them:  Hear,  ye 
rebellious  and  incredulous:  can  we  bring  you  forth 
water  out  of  this  rock?  And  when  Moses  had  lifted 
up  his  hand,  and  struck  the  rock  twice  with  the 
rod,  there  came  forth  water  in  great  abundance,  so 
that  the  people  and  their  cattle  drank.  And  the 
Lord  said  to  Moses  and  Aaron:  Because  you  have 
not  believed  me,  to  sanctify  me  before  the  children 
of  Israel,  you  shall  not  bring  these  people  into  the 
land  which  I  will  give  them.  This  is  the  water  of 
contradiction,  where  the  children  of  Israel  strove 
with  words  against  the  Lord,  and  he  was  sanctified 
in  them. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxvii.— My  heart  trusted  in  the 
Lord,  and  I  found  relief:  my  flesh  is  healed,  and  I 
will  with  pleasure  return  him  thanks.  V.  To  thee 
O  Lord,  have  I  cried  out ;  answer  me,  O  my  God, 
and  depart  not  from  me. 

TRACT.     Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  p.  1 17. 

(BD0pCL  John  iv.  5.  41.— At  that  time  ; 
Jesus  came  to  a  city  of  Samaria  which  is  called 
Sichar,  near  the  parcel  of  ground  which  Jacob  gave 
to  his  son  Joseph.  Now  Jacob's  well  was  there, 
Jesus  therefore  being  wearied  with  his  journey,  sat 
thus  on  the  well.  It  was  about  the  sixth  hour. 
There  cometh  a  woman  of  Samaria  to  draw  water. 
Jesus  saith  to  her:  Give  me  to  drink.  (For  his  dis- 
ciples were  gone  into  the  city  to  buy  food.)  Then 
that  Samaritan  woman  saith  to  him:  How  dost 
thou,  being  a  Jew,  ask  of  me  to  drink,  who  am  a 
Samaritan  woman  ?  For  the  Jews  do  not  communi- 
cate with  the  Samaritans.  Jesus  answered,  and  said 
to  her:  If  thou  didst  know  the  gift  of  God,  and 
\vho  it  is  that  saith  to  thee,  Give  me  to  drink,  thou 
have  asked  of  him,  and  he  would  have 


l8o  -FRIDAY  IN  THE 

given  thee  living  water.  The  woman  saith  to  himi 
Sir,  thou  hast  nothing  wherein  to  draw,  and  the 
well  is  deep:  from  whence  then  hast  thou  living 
water  ?  Art  thou  greater  than  our  father  Jacob,  who 
gave  ns  the  \vefl?  and  drank  thereof  himself,  and 
his  children,  and  his  cattle  ?  Jesus  answered  and 
said  to  her:  Whosoever  drinketh  of  this  water,  shall 
thir.:t  again:  but  he  that  shall  drink  of  the  water 
that  I  shall  give  him,  shall  not  thirst  forever.  But 
the  water  that  I  shall  give  him,  shall  become  in  him 
a  fountain  of  water  springing  up  into  everlasting 
life.  The  woman  saith  to  him:  Sir,  Give  me  this 
water,  that  I  may  not  thirst,  nor  come  hither  to 
draw.  Jesus  saith  to  her;  Go,  call  thy  husband, 
and  come  hither.  The  woman  answered,  and  said: 
I  have  no  husband.  Jesus  saith  to  her:  Thou  hast 
said  well,  I  have  no  husband:  for  thou  hast  had  five 
husbands 5  and  he  whom  thou  now  hast,  is  not  thy 
husband.  This  thou  hast  said  truly.  The  woman 
saith  to  him :  Sir,  I  perceive  that  thou  art  a  prophet. 
Our  fathers  adored  on  this  mountain,  and  you  say 
that  at  Jerusalem  is  the  place  where  men  mustadore0 
Jesus  saith  to  her ;  Woman,  believe  me,  the  hour 
cometh,  when  you  shall  neither  on  this  mountain,, 
nor  in  Jerusalem,  adore  the  Father.  You  adore 
that  which  you  know  not ;  we  adore  that  which 
we  know :  for  salvation  is  of  the  Jews.  But  the 
hour  cometh,  and  now  is,  when  the  true  adorers 
shall  adore  the  Father  in  spirit  and  in  truth.  For 
the  Father  also  seeketh  such  to  adore  him.  God  is 
a  spirit,  and  they  that  adore  him,  must  adore  him  in 
spirit  and  in  truth.  The  woman  saith  to  him:  I 
know  that  theMessias  cometh  (who  is  called  Christ) 
therefore  when  he  is  come,  he  will  tell  us  all  things. 
Jesus  saith  to  her:  I  am  he,  who  am  speaking  with 
thee.  And  immediately  his  disciples  came;  and 
they  wondered  that  he  talked  with  the  woman.  Yet 
no  man  said:  What  seekest  thou,  or  why  talkest 


IH.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  l8f 

thou  with  her  ?  The  woman  therefore  left  her 
water- pot,  and  went  her  way  into  the  city,  and  saith 
to  the  men  there:  Come,  and  see  a  man  who  hath 
told  me  all  things  that  ever  I  did.  is  not  he  the 
Christ  >  Then  they  went  out  of  the  city,  and  came 
to  him.  la  the  mean  time  the  disciples  prayed  him, 
saying*.  Rabbi,  eat.  But  he  said  to  them :  I  have 
meat  to  eat  which  you  know  not  of.  The  disci- 
ples therefore  said  one  to  another  ;  Ilalh  any  man 
brought  him  any  thing  to  eat  ?  Jesus  saith  to  them: 
My  meat  is  to  do  the  will  ot  him  that  sent  me,  that  I 
may  perfect  his  work.  Do  not  you  say,  there  are  four 
months,  and  then  the  harvest  cometh?  Behold  I 
say  to  you  :  lift  up  your  eyes,  and  see  the  countries, 
for  they  are  white  already  to  harvest.  And  he  that 
reapeth,  receiveih  wages,  and  gathereth  fruit  unto 
everlasting  lite:  that,  both  he  that  soweth,  and  he 
that  reapeth  mny  rejoice  together.  For  in  this  is 
that  saying  true  -."that  it  is  one  man  that  soweth,  and 
it  is  another  that  reapeth.  I  have  sent  you  to  reap 
that  in  which  you  did  not  labour  :  others  have  la- 
boured,  and  you  have  entered  into  their  labours. 
Now  of  that  city  many  of  the  Samaritans  believed  in 
him,  for  the  word  of  the  woman  giving  testimony  ; 
he  told  me  all  that  ever  I  did.  So  when  the  Sama- 
ritans were  conning  to  him,  they  desired  him  that  he 
would  tarry  there.  And  he  tarried  there  two  days. 
And  many  more  believed  on  him  because  of  his  own 
word.  And  they  said  to  the  woman:  We  now  be- 
lieve, not  for  thy  saying :  for  we  ourselves  have  heard 
him,  and  know  that  this  is  indeed  the  Saviour  of 
the  world. 

OFFERT.     Ps.  v.— My  King  and  my  God,  hear 
tlu'  words  of  my  prayer,  for  it  is  to  the?  I  will  pray. 

SECRET.     "We  beseech  thee,   O   Lord,    merci- 
fully regard  the  offerings  we  consecrate  u>  th--- 
that  they  may  become  acceptable  t< 
ways  advance  our  salvation.     Thro'. 
Q 


182  SATURDAY  IN  THE 

COMM.  Joh?i\v. — He  who  shall  drink  the  water, 
which  I  shall  give  him,  saith  the  Lord,  it  shall  be- 
come in  him  a  fountain  of  water  springing  up  to  eter- 
nal life. 

P.  COMM."  Hujus. — May  the  receiving  of  this 
sacrament,  O  Lord,  cleanse  us  from  sin,  and  bring 
us  to  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Prtftfa.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  confide  in  thy  pro. 
tection,  may,  thro*  thy  grace,  overcome  all  the  ene- 
mies of  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

SATURDAY. 

1NTROIT.  PJ.  v.— Hear,  O  Lord,  my  word?, 
attend  to  my  cry:  hearken  to  the  voice  of  my  pray- 
er, O  my  King  and  my  God.  Ps.  For  to  thee,  O 
Lord,  will  1  pray;  and  in  the  morning  thou  wilt 
hear  my  voice.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Prasta. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  they  who  mortify  themselves 
by  abstinence  from  food,  may,  by  observing  thy 
holy  law,  also  fast  from  all  sin.  Thro'. 

IlESSON.  Dan.  xiii.  i.  62.  —  In  those  days; 
There  was  a  man  that  dwelt  in  Babylon,  and  his 
name  was  Joakim:  and  he  took  a  wife  whose  name 
was  Susanna,  the  daughter  of  Helcias,  a  very  beau- 
tiful woman,  and  one  that  feared  God.  For  her 
parents  being  just,  had  instructed  their  daughter 
according  tc  the  law  of  Moses.  Now  Joakim  was 
very  rich,  and  had  an  orchard  near  his  house  ;  and 
the  Jews  resorted  to  him,  because  he  was  the  most 
honourable  of  them  all.  And  there  were  two  of 
the  ancients  of  the  people  appointed  judges  that 
year,  of  whom  the  Lord  said:  Iniquity  came  out 
from  Babylon  from  the  ancient  judges,  that  seemed  to 
govern  the  people.  These  men  frequented  the 
house  of  Joakim,  and  all 'that  had  any  matieis  of 


III.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  183 

judgment  came  to  them.     And  when  the  people 
departed    away   at  noon,    Susanna    went   in,  and 
walked  in    her    husband's  orchard.     And  the  old 
men  saw  her  going  in  every  day,  and  walking  :  and 
they  were  inflamed  with  lust  towards  her:  and  they 
perverted  their  own  mind,  and  turned  away  their 
eyes,  that  they  might  not  look  unto  heaven,  nor 
remember    just  judgments.      So   they   were  both 
•  wounded  with  the   love  of  her,  yet  they  did  not 
make  known  their  grief  one  to  the  other;  for  they 
were  ashamed  to  declare  to  one  another  their  lust, 
being  desirous  to  have  to  do  with  her :  and  they 
'  watched  carefully  every  day  to  see  her.     And  one 
said  to  the  other;   Let  us  now  go  home,  for  it  is  din- 
ner time.  So  going  out  they  departed  one  from  ano- 
ther.    And  turning  back  again,  they  came  both  to 
the  same  place;  and  asking  one  another  the  cause, 
they  acknowledged  their  lust  :  and  then  they  agreed 
together  upon  a  time  when    they  might  find  her 
alone.     And  it  fell  out,  as  they  watched  a  fit  day, 
she  went  in  on  a  time,  as  yesterday  and  the  day  be- 
fore, with   two  maids  only,  and  was  desirous  to 
wash  herself  in  the  orchard  ;  for  it  was  hot  weather. 
And  there  was  nobody  there,  but  the  two  old  men 
that  had  hid  themselves  and  were  considering  her. 
She  said  to  the  maids;  Bring  me  oil,  and  wash- 
ing balls,  and  shut  the  doors  of  the  orchard,  that  I 
may  wash  me.     And  they  did  as  she  bade  them ; 
and  they  shut  the  doors  of  the  orchard,  and  went 
out  by  a  back  door   to  fetch  what  she  had  com- 
manded them,  and  they  knew  not  that  the  elders 
were  hid  within.    Now  when  the  maids  were  gone 
forth,  the  two   elders  arose,  and  ran  to  her.  and 
said:  Behold   the  doors  of  the  orchard  are  shut, 
and  nobody  seeth  us,  and  we  are  in  love  with  thee ; 
wherefore  consent  to  us,  and  lie  with    us.     But  if 
thou    wilt    not,     we  will     bear    witness    against 
thee,  that  a  young  man  was  with  thee,  and  there- 


184  SATURDAY  IN  THE 

fore  thou  didst  send  away  thy  maids  from  <thee. 
Susanna  sighed,  and  said:  I  am  straitened  on  every 
side:  for  if  I  do  this  thing,  it  is  death  to  me; 
and  if  I  do  it  not,  I  shall  not  escape  your  hands* 
But  it  is  better  1br  me  to  fall  into  your  hands  with, 
outdoing  it,  than  to  siu  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord. 
With  that  Susanna  cried  out  with  a  loud  voice;  and 
the  elders  also  cried  out  against  her.  And  one  of 
them  ran  to  the  door  of  the  orchard,  and  opened 
it.  So  when  the  servants  of  the  house  heard  the 
cry  in  the  orchard,  they  rushed  in  by  the  back  door, 
to  see  what  was  the  matter.  But  after  the  old  men 
had  spoken,  the  servants  were  greatly  ashamed,  for 
never  had  there  been  any  such  word  said  of  Susanna. 
And  on  the  next  day,  when  the  people  were  come 
to  Joakim  her  husband,  the  two  elders  also  came, 
full  of  their  wicked  device  against  Susanna,  to  put 
her  to  deatn.  And  they  said  before  the  people; 
Send  to  Susanna,  daughter  of  Helcias,  the  wife  of 
Joakim.  And  they  presently  sent.  And  she  came 
with  her  parents,  and  children,  and  all -her  kindred, 
Now  Susanna  was  exceeding  delicate,  and  beautiful 
to  behold.  But  those  wicked  men  commanded  that 
her  face  should  be  uncovered  (for  she  was  covered) 
that  so  at  least  they  might  be  satisfied  with  her 
beauty.  Therefore  her  friends  and  all  her  acquain- 
tance wept.  But  the  two  elders,  rising  up  in  the 
midst  of  the  people,  laid  their  hands  upon  her  head. 
And  she  weeping  looked  up  to  heaven,  for  her  heart 
had  confidence  in  the  Lord.  And  the  elders  said  : 
As  we  walked  in  the  orchard  alone,  this  woman 
came  in  with  two  maids,  and  shut  the  doors  of  the 
orchard,  and  ictit  away  the  maids  from  her.  Then 
a  young  man  that  was  there  hid,  came  to  her,  and 
lay  with  her,  But  we  that  were  in  the  corner  of 
the  orchard,  seeing  this  wickedness,  ran  ap  to 
them,  and  we  saw  them  lie  together.  And  as  foe 
him  we  could  not  take  him,  because  he  was 
stronger  than  we,  and  opening  the  doors  he  leaped 


HI.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  J#5 

out;  but  bavins  taken  this  woman,  we  asked  who 
the  young  man  was,  but  she  would  not  tell  us:  of 
this  thing  we  are  witnesses.     The  multitude  believed 
them,  as  being  the  elders  and  judges  of  the  people, 
and  they    condemned    her   to   death.      Then   Su- 
sanna cried  out  with  a  loud  voice,  and  said:  O  eter- 
nal God,  who  knowest  hidden  things,  who  knowest 
all  things  before  they  come  to  pass,  thou  knowest 
that  they  have  borne  false  witness  against  me  :  and 
behold   [  must  die,  whereas  I  have   done   none  of 
these  things,    which  these    men   have  maliciously 
forged  against  me.     And  the  Lord  heard  her  voice. 
And  when  she  was  led  to  be  put  to  death,  the  Lord 
raised    up  the  holy  spirit  of  a  young   boy,   whose 
name  was  Daniel :  -and   he  cried  out  with  a   loud 
voice:  I  am  cleat  from  the  blood  ot  this  woman. 
Then  all    the  people  turning  towards  him,  said  : 
What  meantth  this  word  that  thou  hast  spoken  ? 
But  he  standing  in  the  midst  of  them,  said  :    Are  ye 
so  foolish,    ye  children  of  Israel,  that  without  exa- 
mination or  knowledge  of  the  truth,  ye  have  con- 
demned a  daughter  of  Israel  ?    Return  to  judgment, 
for  they  have  borne  false  witness  against  her.     So  all 
the  people  turned  again  in  haste,  and  the  old  men 
said  to  him:    Come  and  sit  thou  down  among  us, 
and  shew  it:  seeing  God  hath  given  thee  the  honour 
of  old  age.      And  Daniel  said  to  the  people:  Sepa- 
rate these  two  far  from  one  another,  and  I  will  exa- 
mine them.     So  when  they  were  put  asunder  oue 
from  the  other,  he  called  one  of  them,  and  said  to 
him;  O  thou  that  art  grown  old  in  evil  days,  now 
are  thy  sins  come  out  which  thou  hast  committed 
before:  in  judging  unjust  judgments,  oppressing  the 
innocent,  and  letting  the  guilty  go  free,  wi. 
the  Lord  saith  :  the  innocent  and  the  just  thou  shalt 
not  kill.     Now   then,  it   thou   sawest  her,  tell  me 
under  what  tree  thou  sawest  them  conversing  to- 
gether.    He  said :  under  a  mastick  tree.  And  D 


1 86  SATURDAY,    &C. 

said  :  Well  hast  thou  lied  against  thy  own  head ; 
for  behold  the  angel  of  God  having  received  the 
sentence  of  him,  shall  cut  thee  in  two.  And  having 
put  him  aside,  he  commanded  that  the  other  should 
come,  and  he  said  to  him :  O  thou  seed  of  Cha« 
naan,  and  not  of  Juda,  beauty  hath  deceived  thee, 
and  lust  hath  perverted  thy  heart:  thus  did  you  tot 
the  daughters  of  Israel,  and  they  for  fear  conversed 
with  you  ;  but  a  daughter  of  JuJa  would  not  abide 
your  wickedness.  Now,  therefore,  tell  me  under 
what  tree  didst  thou  take  them  together?  And  he 
answered:  under  a  holm  tree.  And  Daniel  said  to 
him:  Well  hast  thou  also  lied  against  (hy  own 
head  ;  for  the  angel  of  the  Lord  waiteth  with  a 
sword  to  cut  thee  in  two,  and  to  destroy  thee. 
With  that  all  the  assembly  cried  out  with  a  loud 
voice,  and  they  blessed  God,  who  saveth  them  that 
trust  in  him.  And  they  rose  up  against  the  two  el- 
ders (for  Daniel  had  convicted  them  of  false  witness 
by  their  own  mouth)  and  they  did  to  them  as  they 
had  maliciously  dealt  against  their  neighbour,  to 
fulfil  the  law  of  Moses:  and  they  put  them  to 
death,  and  innocent  blood  was  saved  in  that  day. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxii.— Though  I  should  walk  in  the 
midst  of  the  shades  of  death,  I  will  fear  no  harm, 
because  thon,  O  Lord,  art  with  me.  V.  Thy  crook 
and  thy  staff  have  been  my  comfort. 

(S500pCU  John  viii.  i.  ii.~- At  that  time: 
Jesus  went  to  mount  Olivet.  And  early  in  the  morn- 
ing he  came  again  into  the  temple,  and  all  the  peo- 
ple came  to  him,  and  he  sat  down  and  taught  them. 
And  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees  bring  to  him  a  wo- 
man taken  in  adultery  5  and  they  set  her  in  the 
midst,  and  said  to  him:  Master,  this  woman  was 
even  now  taken  in  adultery.  Now  Moses  in  the 
law  commanded  us  to  stone  such  a  one.  But  what 
sayest  thou  ?  And  this  they  said  tempting  him,  that 
they  might  accuse  him.  But  Jesus  stooping  down, 


IV.  SUNDAY   IN  LENT.  187 

wfote  with  his  finder  on  the  ground.  And  when 
they  continued  asking  him,  he  lifted  up  himself, 
and  said  to  them  :  He  that  is  without  sin  among 
you,  let  him  first  cast  a  stone  at  her.  And  again  he 
stooped  down,  and  wrote  on  the  ground.  Pot.  they 
hearing  this,  went  out  one  by  one,  beginning  at  the 
^eldest:  and  Jesns  alone  remained,  and  the  woman, 
standing  in  the  midst.  Then  Jesus  lifting  up  himself, 
said  to  her:  Woman,  where  are  they  that  accused 
thee  ?  Hath  no  man  condemned  thee  ?  And  she 
said:  No  man,  Lord.  And  Jesus  said:  Neither 
will  I  condemn  thee.  Go,  and  now  sin  no  more. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  —  Direct  my  steps  according  to  thy 
law,  that  no  injustice  may  reign  in  me,  O  Lord. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  the  offering  of  this  sacrifice  may  cleanse 
and  protect  our  frail  nature  from  all  evil. 

COMM.  Jb/mviii.  —  Woman,  hath  nobody  con- 
demned thee  ?  Nobody,  O  Lord.  Neither  will  I 
condemn  thee.  Now  sin  no  more. 

P.  COMM.  Quasunnts.  —  We  beseech  thee,  O 
Altnighty  God,  that  we  may  be  reckoned  among 
his  members,  whose  body  and  blood  we  partake  of. 
Who  li  vest,  &c. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  P;v^>/^.—  Stretch  forth,  O  Lord, 
over  thy  people,  the  right-hand  of  thy  heavenly  aid, 
that  they  may  seek  thee  with  their  whole  heart,  and 
mercifully  obtain  what  they  ask  for  as  they  ought.- 
Thro'. 


IV.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT. 

JN  the  Mass  of  this  day,  the  Church  feems  to  forget  the 
sentiments  of  penance  with  which  she  hath  been  occu- 
pied from  the  beginning  of  Lent.  The  reason  whereof  is, 
that  formerly  such  as  were  to  receive  baptism  at  Eas- 
ter, were  enregistered,  after  having  been  examined  this 
week.  She  also  saw  the  time  now  approaching  for  the 


188  IV.  SUNDAY  JN  LENT. 

reconciliation  of  the  penitents,  whom  she  had  subjected  ta 
public  penance  on  Ash- Wednesday.  The  future  birth, 
therefore,  of  those  who  were  judged  worthy  of  the  grace 
of  baptism;  and  the  resurrection  to  a  new  life  of  several  of 
her  children,  whq,  after  having  gone  astray,  return  to 
God  by  a  sincere  conversion,  is  this  day,  the  subject  of 
her  joy, 

1NTROIT.     Is.  Ixvi.  Ps.  cxxi. 

REjoice,  with  Jerusa-       T  sEtare,  Jerusalem,  ct 
iem,  and  meet  toge-     ^-^  convention  facile  vmnes 
ther  all  you  who  love  her.     qui  diligitis  earn  :  gaudcte 
Rejoice  exceedingly,  you     cum  Lctitia,  qui  in  tris. 
who  have   been  in  sor-     titiajuistis,   ut  exultctis, 
row,  that  you  may  leap     ct  saticmini   ab    uberibus 
for  joy,  and  be  satiated     consolationis  vestra. 
with  comfort   from   her        Ps.  cxxi.     Latatus  sum 
breasts.      Ps.  1  rejoiced     in   his,     qu&   dicta    sunt 
at   what   has  been   told     mild :  in  domum  Domini 
me  :  we  shall   go  to  the     ibinius. 
house  of  the  Lord.     Y+,       V.  Gloria. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.  Concede.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  are  justly  afflicted 
according  to  our  demerits,  may  be  relieved  by  thy 
comforting  grace.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Gal.  iv.  23.  31.— Brethren:  It  is 
written  that  Abraham  had  two  sons:  the  one  by  a 
bond- woman,  and  the  other  by  a  free- woman  But 
he  who  was  by  the  bond-woman,  was  born  accord- 
ing to  the  flesh:  but  he  by  the  tree- woman,  was  by 
promise.  Which  things  are  said  by  an  allegory. 
For  these  are  the  two  testaments.  The  one  from 
Mount  Sinai,  engendering  to  bondage,  which  is 
Agar :  for  Sinai  is  a  mountain  in  Arabia,  which  hath 
affinity  to  that  Jerusalem  which  now  is,  and  is  ia 
bondage  with  her  children.  But  that  Jerusalem, 
which  is  above,  is  free;  which  is  our  mother.  For 
it  is  written :  "  Rejoice,  thou  barren,  that  bearest 
not ;  break  forth  taud  cry,  thou  that  travailest  uot; 


IV.  SUNDAY  IN  LENT.  lg$ 

for  many  are  the  children  of  the  desolate,  more  than 
of  her  that  hath  a  husband.  Now  we,  brethren, 
as  Isaac  was,  are  the  children  of  promise.  But  as 
then  he,  that  was  born  according  to  the  flesh,  per- 
secuted  him  that  was  after  the  spirit;  even  so  it  is 
now.  But  what  saith  the  scripture  ?  "  Cast  out  the 
bond- woman  and  her  son  :  for  the  son  of  the  bond* 
woman  shall  not  be  heir  with  the  son  of  the  free- 
woman."  So  then,  brethren,  we  are  not  children 
of  the  bond- woman,  but  of  the  free;  by  the  free- 
dom wherewith  Christ  hath  made  us  free. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxi. —  1  rejoiced  at  what  had  been 
told  me;  we  are  to  go  up  to  the  house  of  the  Lord. 
V.  May  peace  be  on  thy  ramparts,  and  plenty  within 
thy  walls. 

TRACT.  Ps  cxxiv.— Qui  confidunt  in  Domino, 
sicut  mons  Sian  ;  ?ifjn  commovebitur  in  aternum,  qui 
habitat  in  Jerusalem.  They  who  trust  in  the  Lord,  are 
as  mount  Sion  :  he  who  dvvelleth  in  Jerusalem, 
shall  never  be  moved.  There  are  mountains  on 
every  side  of  it,  and  the  Lord  encompasseth  his  peo- 
ple both  now  and  tor  evermore. 

<3£>Q$p£U     John   vi.     i.    15 At    that    time; 

Jesus  went  over  the  sea  of  Galilee,  which  is  that  of 
Tiberias:  and  a  great  multitude  followed  him,  be- 
cause  they  saw  the  miracles  which  he  did  on  them 
that  were  diseased.  Jesus  therefore  went  up  into  a 
mountain,  and  there  he  sat  with  his  disciples.  Now 
the  pasch,  the  festival  day  of  the  Jews,  was  near  at 
hand.  When  Jesus  therefore  had  lifted  up  his  eyes, 
and  seen  that  a  very  great  multitude  cometh  to  him, 
he  said  to  Philip  :  \V  hence  shaH  we  buy  bread  that 
these  may  eat?  And  this  he  said  to  try  him  :  for  he 
himself  knew  what  he  would  do.  Philip  answered 
him:  Two  hundred  penny-worth  of  ImMd  is  no 
sufficient  for  them,  that  every  one  may  take  a  little. 
One  of  his  disciples,  Andrew,  the  brother  o(  Simon 


190  MONDAY  IN  THE 

Peter,  saitli  to  him:  There  is  a  boy  here  that  hath 
five  barley  loaves  and  two  small  fishes;  but  what  are 
they  among  so  many  ?  Then  Jesus  said:  Make  the 
men  sit  down.  Now  there  was  much  grass  in  the 
place.  So  the»men  sat  clown,  in  number  about  five 
thousand.  And  Jesus  took  the  loaves;  and  when 
he  had  given  thanks,  he  said  to  his  disciples:  Ga- 
ther up  the  fragments  that  remain,  lest  they  be  lost. 
They  gathered  up  therefore,  and  filled  twelve 
baskets  with  the  fragments  of  the  five  barley  loaves, 
which  remained  over  and  above  to  them  that  had 
eaten.  Now  these  men,  when  they  had  seen  what 
a  miracle  Jesus  had  done,  said  :  This  is  of  a  truth 
the  prophet  that  is  to  come  into  the  world.  Jesus, 
therefore,  when  he  knew  that  they  would  come  to 
take  him  by  force  and  make  him  king,  fled  again 
into  the  mountain  himself  alone.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxiv.— -Praise  the  Lord,  for  he 
is  good  :  sing  to  his  name,  for  he  is  sweet :  he  hath 
done  whatever  he  pleased,  both  in  heaven  and  on 
earth. 

SECRET.  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  mercifully 
regard  this  present  sacrifice,  that  it  may  both  in* 
crease  our  devotion,  and  advance  our  salvation. 
Thro'. 

COMMUNION.  Ps.  cxxi.— Jerusalem,  which  is 
built  Lke  a  city,  all  whose  parts  are  joined  together : 
for  it  was  thither  the  tribes  went  up,  the  tribes  of  the 
Lord,  to  praise  thy  name,  O  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Da  nobis. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  merciful  God,  that  we  may  sincerely  respect,  and 
receive  with  faith  thy  holy  mysteries,  with  which 
thou  daily  feedest  us. 

MONDAY. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  liii.— Save  me,  O  God,  by  thy 
name,  and  judge  me  in  thy  strength:  O  God,  hear 


IV.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  Igi 

my  prayer:  attend  to  the  words  of  my  mouth.  Ps. 
?or  strangers  have  risen  up  against  me:  and  the 
mighty  have  sought  my  life.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Presto.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  annually  celebrate 
this  holy  fast,  may  be  well  pleasing  to  thee  both  in 
body  and  mind.  Thro'. 

LESSON.      r  Kings  iii.  16.  28, — Li  those  days  : 
Two  women  that  were  harlots,  came  to  king  Solo, 
mon,  and  stood  before  him :  and  one  of  them  said  : 
1  beseech  thee,  my  Lord,    I  and  this  woman  dwelt 
in  one  house,  and  I  was  delivered  of  a  child  with 
her  in  the  chamber.      And  the  third  day  after  that  I 
was  delivered,  she  also  was  delivered;  and  we  were 
together,  and  no  other  person  with  us  in  the  house, 
only  we  two.     And  this  woman's  child  died  in  the 
night.     For  in  her  sleep  she  overlaid  him.     And  ris. 
ing  in   the  dead  time  of  the  night,    she  took  my 
child  from  my  side  while  I  thy  handmaid  was  asleep, 
and  laid  it  in  her  bosom  :  and  laid  her  dead  child  in 
my  bosom.      And  when  I  rose  in  the  morning  to 
cive  my  child  suck,  behold  it  was  dead;  but  consi- 
clering  him  more  diligently,  when  it  was  clear  day, 
1  found  that  it  was  not  mine  which  I  bore.     And  the 
other  woman  answered:  It  is  not  so  as  thou  sayest, 
but  thy  child  is  dead,  and  mine  is  alive.     On  the 
contrary  she  said:  Thou  liest:  for  my  child  liveth, 
and  thy  child  is  dead.      And  in  this  manner  they 
strove  before  the  king.      Then  saith  the  king:  The 
one  saith,  my  child  is  alive,  and  thy  child  is  dead. 
And  the  other  answereth,   Nay,    but  thy  child  is 
dead,  and  mine  liveth.     The  king  therefore  said: 
Bring  me  a  sword.  And  when  they  had  brought,  a 
sword  before  the  king,  divide,   said  he,  the 'living 
child  in  two,  and  give  half  to  the  one,  and  half  to 
the  other.    But  the  woman,  whose  child  was  alive, 
said  to  the  king,  (for  her  bowels  were  moved  upon 
her  child)  1  beseech  thee,  my  Lord,  give  her  the 


-     *92  MoKDAV  IN  THE 

child  alive  and  do  riot  kill  it.  But  the  other  said: 
Let  it  be  neither  mine  nor  thine,  but  divide  it.  The 
king  answered  and  said:  Give  the  living  child  to 
this  woman, %and  let  it  not  be  killed,  for  she  is  the 
mother  thereof.  And  all  Israel  heard  the  judgment 
which  the  king  had  judged,  and  they  feared  the 
kin£,  seeing  that  the  wisdom  of  God  was  in  him  to 
do  judgment 

GRAD.  Ps.  XXX.— Be  to  me  a  protecting  GoJ, 
and  a  place  of  refuge  to  save  me.  V.  Ps.  Ixx.  In 
thee,  O  God,  have  I  put  my  trust;  never  let  me  be 
put  to  shame. 

TRACT.  Ps.  en.— Deal  not,  &c,  p.  117. 
<$>0£pCU  John  ii.  13.  25.— At  that  time: 
The  pasch  of  the  Jews  was  at  hand,  and  Jesus 
went  up  to  Jerusalem;  and  he  found  in  the  temple 
them  that  sold  oxen,  and  sheep,  and  doves,  and 
the  changers  of  money  sitting.  And  when  he  had 
made  as  it  were  a  scourge  of  little  cords,  he  drove 
them  all  out  of  the  temple,  the  sheep  also  arid  the 
oxen,  and  he  poured  out  the  changers  of  money,  and 
the  tables  he  overthrew.  And  he  said  to  them  that 
sold  doves:  Take  these  things  hence,  and  make  not 
the  house  of  my  Father  a  house  of  traffic.  And  his 
disciples  remembered  that  it  was  written:  "The 
zeal  of  thy  house  hath  eaten  me  upi"  Then  the 
Jews  answered,  and  said  to  him:  What  sign  dost 
thou  shew  us,  seeing  thou  dost  these  things  ?  Jesus 
answered,  and  said  to  them:  Destroy  this  temple, 
and  in  three  days  I  will  raise  it  up.  The  Jews  then 
said:  Six  and  forty  years  was  this  temple  in  build- 
ing, and  wilt  thou  raise  it  in  three  days?  But  he 
spoke  of  the  temple  of  his  body.  When  therefore 
he  was  risen  again  from  the  dead,  his  disciples  re- 
rneiiibered  that  he  had  said  this,*  and  they  believed 
the  scripture,  and  the  word  that  Jesus  had  said. 
Now  when  he  was  at  Jerusalem,  at  the  pasch,  upon 
the  festival  day,  many  believed  in  his  name,  seeing 


IV.  WEEK    IN  LENT.  193 

his  miracles  which  he  did.  But  Jesus  did  not  trus* 
himself  to  them,  because  he  knew  all  men,  and  be- 
cause he  needed  not  that  any  should  give  testimony 
of  man,  for  he  knew  what  was  in  man. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xcix.  --Sing  to  God,  all  the 
earth,  serve  the  Lord  with  joy :  come  before  him 
with  gladness,  for  he  (he  Lord  is  God. 

SECRET.  May  the  sacrifice  we  have  offered 
thee,  O  Lord,  always  give  us  lite,  and  defend  us. 
Thro'. 

COMM.  Pa.  xviii.— Cleanse  me,  O  Lord,  from 
mv  hidden  sins,  and  free  thy  servant  from  those  of 
other  men 

P«  COMM.  iS«wi/>£w»— May  the  receiving  of 
these  saving  mysteries,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
advance  our  eternal  redemption.  Thro\ 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 
PRAYER.  Dtp  ccationem. — We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  hear  our  prayer,   and  grant  us  thy  protection, 
3s  it  isthou  who  inspirest  us  to  ask  it.  Thro'. 

TUESDAY. 

TNTROIT.  Ps.  liv.— O  God,  hear  my  prayer, 
and  despise  not  ray  petition  :  look  on  me,  and  hear 
me.  Ps.  1  am  grieved  in  my  exercise;  and  troubled 
at  the  voice  of  my  enemy,  and  the  distress  of  the 
sinner.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Sacra.— We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  holy  fast  we  observe  may  be  to  our  improve- 
ment in  holy  conversation,  and  draw  down  upon  us 
the  con-tain  succours  of  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Exod.  xxxii.  7.  14. — In  those  daysi 
The  Lord  spake  to  Moses,  raying:  Go,  get  thee 
down  ;  thy  people,  which  thou  hast  brought  out  of 
the  land  of  Egypt,  hath  sinned.  They  have  quickly 
strayed  from  the  way  which  thou  didst  shew  them  ; 
and  they  have  made  to  themselves  a  molten  calf,and 
have  adore*!  it,  and  sacrificing  victims  to  it,  huvc 
R 


194  TUESDAY  IN  THE 

said :  These  are  thy  gods,  O  Israel,  that  have 
brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt.  And  again 
the  Lord  said  to  Moses;  I  see  :nat  this  people  is 
stiff  necked  :  let  me  alone,  that  my  wrath  may  be 
kindled  against  them,  and  that  I  may  destroy  them, 
and  I  will  make  of thee  a  great  nation.  But  Moses 
besought  the  Lord  his  God,  saying:  Why,  O  Lord, 
is  thy  indignation  enkindled  against  *hy  people, 
whom  thou  hast  brought  out  of  the  land  of  Egvpt, 
with  great  power,  and  with  a  mighty  hand?  Let 
not  the  Egyptians  say,  I  beseech  thee;  He  craftily 
brought  them  out,  that  he  might  kill  them  in  the 
mountains,  and  destroy  them  from  the  eanh  :  let  thy 
anger  cease,  and  be  appeased  upon  the  wickedness 
ofthy  people.  Remember  Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Israel 
thy  servants,  to  whom  thou  sworest  bv  thy  own  self, 
saying :  I  will  multiply  >our  seed  as  the  stars  of  hea- 
ven: and  th.s  whole  land  that  I  have  spoken  of,  1 
will  give  to  your  seed,  and  you  shall  possess  it  for 
ever.  And  the  Lord  was  appeased  from  doing 
the  evil  which  he  !,ad  spoken  against  his  people. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xltii. — Arise,  O  Lord,  succour  us, 
and  deliver  us  for  the  sake  of  thy  own  name.  V.  We 
have  heard,  O  God,  \\ith  our  own  ear?,  and  our 
forefathers  have  related  to  us  the  work  thou  didst  in 
their  days,  and  in  the  ages  past. 

(000p?l*  John  vii.  14.  31.— At  that  time; 
About  the  midst  of  the  feast,  Jesus  went  up  into  the 
temple  and  taught.  And  the  Jews  wondered,  say- 
ing:  How  doih  this  man  know  letters,  having  never 
learned  ?  Jesus  answered  them,  and  said  :  My  doc- 
trine is  not  mine,  but  his  that  sent  me.  If  any  man 
will  do  the  will  of  him,  he  shall  know  of  the  doc- 
trine, whe'her  it  be  of  God,  or  whether  I  speak  of 
myself,  He  that  speaketh  of  himself,  seeketh  his 
owng'ory:  but  he  that  seeketh  the  glory  of  him 
that  sent  him,  he  is  true,  and  there  is  no  injustice 
in  him.  Did  not  Moses  give  you  the  law  ?  and  yet 


IV.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  19$ 

none  of  you  keepeth  the  law.  Why  seek  you  to 
kill  me?  The  multitude  answered  and  said  :  Thou 
vhast  a  devil:  Who  seek eth  to  kill  thee  ?  Jesus  an- 
swered, and  said  to  them  :  One  work  I  have  done  ; 
and  you  all  wonder:  therefore  Moses  gave  you  cir*> 
curncision:  (not  because  it  is  of  Moses  but  of  the 
fathers,)  ana  on  the  Sabbath  day  you  circumcise 
a  man.  If  a  man  receive  circumcision  on  the  Sab- 
bath day,  that  the  law  of  Moses  may  not  be  bro- 
ken ;  are  you  angry  at  me,  because  I  have  healed 
the  whole  man  on  the  Sabbath  day?  Judge  not  ac- 
cording to  the  appearance,  but  judge  just  judgment. 
Then  some  of  them  of  Jerusalem  said  ;  Is  not  this  he 
whom  they  seek  to  kill  ?  And  behold  he  speaketh 
openly,  and  they  say  nothing  to  him.  Have  the 
rulers  known  for  a  truth  that  this  is  the  Christ?  But 
we  know  this  man  whence  he  is ;  b^t  when  the 
Christ  cometh,  no  man  knoweth  whence  he  is*  Jtsus 
therefore  cried  out  in  the  temple,  teaching  and  say- 
ing: You  both  know  me,  and  you  know  whence  I 
am:  and  I  am  not  come  of  myself;  but  he  that 
sent  me  is  true,  whom  you  know  not,  I  know 
him,  because  1  am  from  him,  and  he  hath  sent  me. 
They  Bought  therefore  to  apprehend  him",  but  no 
man  laid  hands  on  him,  because  Ins  hour  was  not 
yet  come.  But  of  the  people  many  believed  in  him. 

OFFERT.  Ps  xxxix. — 1  have  waited  \\ithout  be- 
ing tired  for  the  Lord,  and  he  hath  looked  upon  me: 
and  he  hath  heard  n  y  prayer;  and  he  hath  put  into 
my  mouth  a  new  canticle,  a  hymn  to  our  God. 

SECRET.  May  this  offering,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thec,  cleanse  away  our  sins:  and  sanctify 
both  the  bodies  and  souls  of  thy  servants  for  worthi- 
ly celebrating  this  sacrifice.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Pa  xix. ---We  will  ujoice  in  thy  salva- 
tion :  and  we  will  ^lory  in  the  name  of  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM,     tiujus  wos.—.May  the  receiving  of 

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J9^  WEDNESDAY  IN  THE 

this  sacrament,  O  Lord,  v-urify  us  from  sin,  and 
bring  us  to  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  Thro*. 

Let  ns  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Misererc.-.--Tzke  compassion,  O 
Lord,  on  thy  people:  and  mercifully  refresh  them 
labouring  under-continual  tribulations.  Thro'- 

WEDNESDAY. 

INTR01T.  Ezech.  xxxvi.—  When  1  shall  have 
been  sanctified  amongst  you,  I  will  gather  you  from 
all  nations;  and  I  will  pour  upon  you  clean  water, 
and  you  shall  be  cleansed  from  all  your  sins;  and  I 
will  give  you  a  new  s;  irit.  Ps.  xxxiii.  I  will  praise 
the  Lord  at  nil  times:  his  praise  shall  be  always  in 
my  mouth.  F.  Glory. 

Immediately  after  Kyrieeleison,  &c.  is  said: 
Let  us  pray.   Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

COLLECT.  Vcits,  qui  —  -O  God,  who  givest  to 
the  righteous  the  reward  of  their  good  works,  and 
by  fasting,  pardon  to  sinners;  have  mercy  on  thy 
suppliants,  that  the  acknowledgment  of  our  guilt 
may  procure  us  the  remission  of  our  sins.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Ezech.  xxxvi.  23.  28.-..  Thus  saith 
the  Lord  God  ;  \  will  sanctify  my  great  name,  which 
was  profaned  among  the  Gentiles,  which  you  have 
profaned  in  the  midst  of  them  :  that  the  Gentiles 
may  know  that  I  am  the  Lord,  saith  the  Lord  of 
Hosts,  when  I  shall  l:e  sanctified  in  you  before  their 
eyes.  For  I  will  take  you  from  among  the  Gen- 
tiles, and  wi'l  gather  you  together  out  of  all  the 
countries,  and  will  bring  you  into  your  own  land. 
And  I  will  pour  upon  you  clean  water,  and  you 
shall  be  cleansed  from  all  your  filthiness,  and  I  will 
cleanse  you  from  all  your  idols.  And  1  will  give 
you  a  new  heart,  and  put  a  new  spirit  within  you  : 
and  I  will  take  away  the  stony  heart  out  of  your 
flesh,  and  will  give  you  a  heart  of  flesh.  And  I  will 
put  my  spirit  in  the  midst  of  you,  and  I  will  cause 


IV.  WEEK  OF  LENT.  197 

you  to  walk  in  my.  commandments,  and  to  keep  my 
judgments,  and  do'them.  And  you  shall  dwell  in 
the  land  which  1  gave  to  your  fathers,  and  yon  shall 
be  my  people,  and  I  will  be  your  God,  with  the 
Abnightj. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiii.— Come  my  children,  and 
hear  me;  I  will  teach  you  the  fear  of  the  Lord. 
V.  Come  near  him,  and  be  enlightened,  and  your 
face  shall  ipot  be  covered  with  shame 

II.  COLLECT,  prffsta.  —  Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  devotion,  which 
makes  us  punish  ourselves  by  this  yearly  fast,  may 
also  make  us  rejoice:  to  the  end  that,  suppressing 
in  ourselves  all  earthly  affections,  w?e  may  more 
easily  receive  thy  heavenly  inspirations.  Thro*. 

II'  LESSON.  h.\.  1 6,  iq.—Thus  sail h  the  Lord 
God:  Wash  yourselves,  be  clean,  take  away  the 
evil  of  your  devices  from  my  eyes:  cease  to  do  per- 
versely," learn  to  do  well:  seek  judgment,  relieve 
the  oppressed,  jud^e  for  the  fatherless,  defend  the 
widow.  And  then  come,  and  accuse  me,  saith  the 
Lord:  if  your  sins  be  as  the  scarlet,  they  shall  be 
made  ns  white- as  snow  :  and  if  they  be  red  as  crim- 
son, they  shall  be  white  as  wool.  If  you  be  willing, 
and  will  hearken  to  me,  you  shall  eat  the  good 
things  of  the  land,  saith  the  Lord  Akntghty. 

GRAL).    Ps.  xxxii — Blessed   is    the  nation   that 
hath  the  Lord  for  its  God,  and  blessed  is  the  people 
the  Lord  hath  chosen  tor  their  inheritance.   V.  By  the 
•word  of  the  Lord  were   the  heavens  made,  and  by 
the  brent h  of  his  moulh  all  the  hosts  thereof. 
TRACT.     Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  p.  nj. 
(£>00PCU   Jo/mix.   I.   38.--^  that  time:  Jesus 
passing  by.  saw   a   man   that  was   blind    from    his 
birth  j    and  his   disciples  asked  him:   Rabbi,    who 
hath  sinned,  this  man,  or  his  parents,  that  he  should 
fee  born  blind  ?  Jesus  answered  :  Neither  hath  this 
R3 


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man  sinned,  nor  his  parents,  but  that  the  works  of 
God  should  be  made  manifest  in  him,     1  must  work 
the  works  of  him  that  sent  me,  whilst  it  is  day:  the 
night  cometh  when  no  man  can  work.     As  long  as 
1  am  in  the  world,  I  am   the  light  of  the  world. 
When   he  had   said  these  things,    he  spat  on  the 
ground,  and  made  clay  of  the  spittle,  and  spread 
the  clay  upon  his  eyes,  and  said  to  him  :  Go,  wash 
in  the  pool  ofSiloe,  which  is  interpreted,  Sent.    He 
went  his  way  therefore,  and  washed,  and  he  came  see. 
ing.  The  neighbours  therefore,  and  they  who  had  seen 
him  before,  that  he  was  a  beggar,  said  ;   Is  not  this  he 
that  sat  and  begged  ?    Some1  said,  This  is  he.    But 
others  said  :  No,  but  he  is  like  him.     But  he  said :  I 
am  he.  They  said  therefore  to  him:  How  were  thine 
eyes  opened?   He  answered:  That  man  that  is  call- 
ed Jesus,  made  clay,  and  anointed  mine  eyes,  and 
said  to  me:  Go  to  the  pool  of  Siioe,    and  wash. 
And  I  went,  I  washed,  and  I  see.      And  they  said 
to  him:  Where  is  he  ?    And  he  saith  :  I  know  not. 
They  bring  him  that  had  been  blind  to  the  Phari- 
sees.    Now  it  was  the  Sabbath,  when  Jesus  made 
the  clay,  and  opened  his  eyes.     Again  therefore  the 
Pharisees  asked  him  how  he  had  received  his  sight. 
But  he  said  to  them:  He  put  clay  upon  my  eyes, 
and  1  washed,  and  I  see      Some  therefore  of  the 
Pharisees  said:  this  man  is  not  of  God    who  keep. 
eth  not  the  Sabbath.     Bur.  others  said:  How  can  a 
man  that  is  a  sinner  do  such  miracles?  And  there 
was  a  division  among  them.     They  say  therefore  to 
the  blind  man  again:   What  sayest  thou  of  him  that 
hath  opened  thy  eyes  ?   And   he  said :  He  is  a  pro- 
phet.     The  Jews  then  did  not  believe  concerning 
him,  that  he  had  been  blind,  and  had  received   his 
iight,  until  they  called  the  parents  of  him  that  had 
received  his  sight,  and  asked  them,  saying:    Is  this 
your  son,  who  you  say  was  born  blind  ?  How  then 
doth  he  no, v  see?  His  parents  answered  them,  and. 


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said:  We  know  that  this  is  OUT  son,  and  that  lie  was 
born  blind  ;  b«it  how  he  now  seeth  we  know  not : 
or  who  hath  opened  his  eyes  we  know  not:  ask 
himself;  he  is  of  age,  let  him  speak  for  himself. 
These  things  his  parents  said,  because  they  feared 
the  Jews :  for  the  Jews  had  already  agreed  among 
themselves,  that  if  any  man  should  confess  him  to 
be  Christ,  he  should  be  put  out  of  the  synagogue. 
Therefore  did  his  parents  say  :  He  is  of  age,  ask 
him.  They  therefore  called  the  man  again  that  had 
been  blind,  and  said  to  him  :  Give  glory  to  God, 
We  know  that  this  man  is  a  sinner.  He  said  then  to 
them;  If  he  he, a  sinner,  I  know  not:  one  thing  I 
know,  that  whereas  I  was  blind,  now  I  see.  Then 
they  said  to  him:  What  did  he  to  thee  ?  How  did 
he  open  thy  eyes?  He  answered  them  :  I  have  told 
you- already,  and  you  have  heard:  why  would  you 
hear  it  again :  will  you  also  become  his  disciples? 
They  reviled  him,  therefore,  and  said:  Bethouhis 
<ii?ciple  ;  but  we  are  the  disciples  of  Moses.  We 
know  that  God  spoke  to  Moses  :  but  as  to  this  man, 
we  know  not  from  whence  he  is.  The  man  an- 
swered, and  said  to  them  :  Why,  herein  is  a  wonder- 
ful thing,  that  you  know  not  from  whence  he  is,  and 
he  hath  opened  my  eyes.  Now  we  know  that 
God  doth  not  hear  sinners;  but  if  a  man  be  a  server 
of  God,  and  doth  his  will,  him  he  heareth.  From 
the  beginning  of  the  world  it  hath  not  been  hearl, 
that  any  man  hath  opened  the  eyes  of  one  born 
blind.  Unless  this  man  were  of  God,  he  could  not 
do  any  thing.  They  answered  and  said  to  him: 
Thou  was  wholly  born  in  sius,  and  dost  thou  teach 
us?  And  they  cast  him  out.  Jesus  heard  that  they  had 
cast.him  out;  and  when  he  had  found  him,  he  said 
to  him  :  Dost  thou  believe  in  the  Son  of  God  ?  He 
answered,  and  said;  Who  is  he,  Lord,  that  1  may 
believe  in  him  ?  And  Jesus  said  to  him  :  Thou  hast 
both  seen  him  :  and  it  is  he  that  talks th.  with 


100  THURSDAY  IN  THE 

And  he  said:  I  believe,  Lord.  And  falling  down, 
he  ndored  him. 

OFFERT.  P$.  Ixv.— O  ye  Gentiles,  bless  the 
Lord  our  God,  and  make  heard  the  voice  of  his 
praise  :  who  'hath  preserved  my  life,  and  hath  not 
permitted  my  feet  to  slip.  Blessed  is  the  Lord,  who 
liath  not  rejected  my  prayer,  nor  turned  aside  his 
rne»ry  from  me. 

SECRET.  We  humbly  beseech  thee,  O  Al- 
mighty God,  that  our  sins  may  be  cleansed  away  by 
this  sacrifice :  because  then  thou  wilt  bestow  on 
\]$  tn.;e  health  both  of  body  and  soul.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  ix. — The  Lord  made  c;ay  of  spittle, 
and  anointed  my  eyes:  and  i  went  and  washed  and 
saw,  and  believed  in  God. 

P.  COMM.  Sacrament  a — May  the  mysteries,  O 
Lord  our  God,  which  we  have  received,  both  feed 
our  souls  and  protect  our  bodies.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Patent  —May  the  ears  of  thy  mercy, 
O  Lord,  be  opened  to  the  prayers  of  thy  servants: 
and  in  order  to  obtain  the  effect  of  our  petitions, 
grant  we  may  ask  what  is  pleasing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

THURSDAY. 

JNTROIT.  Ps,  civ.— Let  the  hearts  of  those 
who  seek  the  Lord  be  glad  :  seek  the  Lord,  and  be 
stren.thened  :  always  seek  his  presence.  Ps.  Praise 
the  Lord,  and  call  ou  his  name:  publifh  his  works 
amonnj  the  Gentiles.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Pr&sta,  (juaaumus.  *—  Grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  devotion, 
\vhich  makes  us  punish  ourselves  by  this  yearly  fast, 
may  also  make  us  rejoice:  to  the  end  that,  suppress- 
ing in  ourselves  all  earthly  affections,  we  may  more 
easily  receive  thy  heavenly  inspirations.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  4  Kings  iv.  25.  38. — In  those  days  ; 
A  Suinauitess  came  to  Eliseus  on  mount  Carmel: 


JV.  \V£EK  01*  LENT.  20t 

and  when  the  man  of  God  saw  her  coming  towards 
him,  he  ?aid  to  Gie/i  Ins  servant :  Behold  that 
Sunamitess.  Go-  therefore  to  her,  and  say  to  her: 
Is  all  well  with  the*-,  and  with  thy  husband,  and 
with  thy  son  ?  And  she  answered  :  Well.  And 
when  she  came  to  the  man  of  God  to  the  mount, 
she  caught  hold  on  his  feet :  and  Giezi  came  to  re- 
move her.  And  the  man  of  God  said:  Let  her 
alone,  for  her  soul  is  in  anguish,  and  the  Lord  hath 
hid  it  from  me,  and  hath  not  told  me.  And  she 
said  to  him  :  Did  I  ask  a  sen  of  my  Lord  ?  Did  I 
not  say  to  thee:  Do  not  deceive  me  ?  Then  he  said 
to  Giezi:  Gird  up  thy  loins,  and  take  up  my  staff  in 
thy  hand,  and  go.  If  any  man  meet  thee,  salute 
him  not:  and  if  any  man  salute  thee,  answer  him 
not:  and  lay  my  staff  upon  the  face  of  the  child. 
But  the  mother  of  the  child  said ;  As  the  Lord 
liveth,  and  as  my  soul  liveth,  I  will  not  leave 
thee.  He  arose,  therefore,  and  followed  her. 
But  Giezi  was  gone  before,  and  laid  the  staff 
upon  the  face  of  the  child,  and  there  was  no 
voice  or  sense;  and  he  returned  to  meet  him, 
and  told  him,  saying:  The  child  is  not  risen.  Eli- 
sens  therefore  went  into  the  house,  and  behold  the 
child  lay  dead  on  his  bed.  And  going  in  he  shut  the 
door  upon  him,  and  upon  the 'child,  and  prayed  to 
the  Lord.  And  he  went  up,  and  lay  upon  the 
child:  and  he  put  his  mouth  upon  his  mouth,  and 
his  eyes  upon  his  eyes,  and  his  hands  upon  his 
hands:  and  he  bowed  himself  upon  him,  and  the 
child's  flesh  grew  v  arm.  Then  he  returned  and 
walked  in  the  house,  once  to  and  fro  5  and  he  went 
up  and  lay  upon  him;  and  the  child  gaped  seven 
times,  and  opened  his  eyes.  And  he  called  Giezi, 
and  said  to  him:  Call  this  Sunamitess.  And  she 
being  called  went  in  to  him.  And  he  said:  Take 
up  thy  son.  She  came  and  fell  at  his  feet,  aud 


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worshipped  on  the  ground,  and  took  up  her  son , 
and  went  out,  And  Eliseus  returned  to  Galgal. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxiii. — Look  down,  O  Lord,  on 
thy  covenant,  snd  forget  not  for  ever  the  souls  of 
thy  poor  servants.  F.  Arise,  O  Lord,  judge  thy 
cause:  remember  the  reproaches  that  are  cast  on 
thy  servants. 

(BOjSpejL  Luke  vii.  IT.  16.—^  that  time: 
Jesus  went  into  a  city  called  Nairn;  and  there  went 
with  him  his  disciples,  and  a  great  multitude.  And 
when  he  came  nigh  to  the  city,  behold  a  dead  man 
was  carried  out,  the  only  son  of  his  mother;  and 
she  was  a  widow  :  and  much  people  of  the  city  were 
with  her.  And  when  the  Lord  saw  her,  he  had 
compassion  on  her,  and  said  to  her:  Weep  not. 
And  lie  came  near  and  touched  the  bier.  And  they 
ihat  carried  it,  stood  still.  And  he  said  :  Young 
man,  1  say  to  thee,  arise  And  he  that  was  dead, 
sat  up,  and  began  to  speak.  And  he  delivered  him 
to  his  mother.  And  there  came  a  fear  on  them  all : 
and  they  glorified  God,  saying  :  A  great  prophet 
is  risen  up  amongst  us,  and  God  hath  visited  his 
people. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixix — Lord,  make  haste  to  help 
me:  let  all  be  put  to  shame,  who  design  evil  to  thy 
servants. 

SECRET.  Purify  us,  O  merciful  God,  that  the 
prayers  of  thy  Church,  which  are  pleasing  to  ihee, 
being  accorrpanied  with  these  offerings,  may  be- 
come more  so  by  the  purity  of  our  minds.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixx, — Thy  justice  alone,  O  Lord,  I 
will  remember;  thou,  O  God,  hast  instructed  me 
from  my  youth ;  abandon  me  not,  O  God,  in  my 
old  and  decrepit  age. 

P.  COMM.  Calestia.— Let  us  not,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  receive,  to  our  judgment,  these  h-a- 
venly  gifts,  which  thou  hast  prepared  as  a  remedy 
for  tky  faithful.  Thro1. 


IV.   WEEK  OF  LENT.  *<>3 

Let  us  pray.  Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER  Pqw/i...-O.Go4,  the  author  and  go- 
vernor  of  thy  people,  deliver  them  from  the  sins,  by 
which  they  are  assaulted,  that  they  may  be  always 
well  pleasing  in  thy  sight,  and  safe  ruder  thy  pro- 
tection.  Thro*. 

FRIDAY. 

1NTRO1T.  P&-.  xviii.— Thou  always  seest  the 
designs  of  my  heart;  thou,  O  Lord,  art  my  helper 
and  my  deliverer.  Ps.  The  heavens  publish  the 
glory  of  God,  and  the  firmament  declareih  the  work 
of  his  hnnds.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dtut  9««.-« O  God,  who  by  thy 
ineffable  mysteries  givest  new  life  to  the  world  ; 
grant,  we  beset -ch  thee,  that  thy  Church  may  ad- 
vance in  the  observance  of  thy  eternal  precepts, 
and  never  be  destitute  of  thy  temporal  assistance. 
Thro'. 

LESSON.  3  Kings  xvii.  17.24. —  In  those  du>n  : 
The  son  of  the  woman,  the  mistress  of  the  house, 
fell  sick,  and  the  sickness  was  very  grievous,  so  that 
there  was  no  breath  left  in  him.  And  she  said  to 
Klias:  what  have  I  to  do  with  thee,  thou  man 
of  God?  Art  thou  come  to  me,  that  my  ini- 
quities should  be  remembered,  and  that  thon 
shouldst  kill  my  son  ?  And  Elias  said  to  her:  Give 
methvson.  And  he  took  him  out  of  her  bosom, 
and  carried  him  into  the  upper  chamber  where  he 
abode,  and  laid  him  upon  his  own  bed.  And  he 
cried  to  the  Lord  and  said :  O  Lord,  my  God,  hast 
thou  afrlicted  also  the  widow,  with  whom  I  am 
after  a  sort  maintained,  so  as  to  kill  her  son  ?  And 
he  stretched,  and  measured  himself  upon  the  child 
three  times,  and  cried  to  the  Lord  and  said:  O 
Lord  my  God,  let  the  soul  of  this  child,  I  beseech 
tl\"<-,  return  into  hh  body.  And  the  Lord  heard 
the  voice  of  Elias:  and  the  soul  of  the  child  n  . 


*04  FK1DAV   IN  THE 

ed  into  him,  and  he  revived.  And  Ellas  took  the 
child,  and  brought  him  down  from  the  upper  cham- 
ber  to  the  house  below,  and  delivered  him  to  his 
mother,  and  £iid  to  her.  Behold  thy  son  liveth.  And 
the  woman  said  to  Elias:  Now,  by  this  I  know 
thou  art  a  man  of  God,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord 
in  thy  mouth  is  true. 

GRAD.  Ps  cxvii  —It  is  better  to  trust  in  the 
Lord,  than  to  trust  in  man.  V.  It  is  better  to  hope 
in  the  Lord,  than  to  hope  in  princes* 

TRACT.  Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117. 
C500pCU  John  xi.  i.  45. —  ^t  that  time: 
There  was  a  certain  man  sick  named  Lazarus,  of 
Bethania,  of  the  town  of  Mary,  and  of  Martha  her 
sister.  (And  Mary  was  she  that  anointed  the  Lord 
with  ointment,  and  wiped  his  feet-  with  her  hair, 
\vhose  brother  Lazarus  was  sick  )  Mis  sisters  there*- 
fore  sent  to  torn,  saying:  Lord,  behold,  he  whom 
thou  lovestissick.  And  Jesus  hearing  it,  said  to  them  : 
This  sickness  is  not  unto  death,  but  for  the  glory  of 
God;  that  the  Son  of  God  may  be  glorified  by  it. 
Now  Jesus  loved  Martha,  and  her  sister  Marv,  and 
Lazarus,  When  he  had  heard  therefore  that  he  was 
sick,  he  still  remained  in  the  same  place  two  days. 
Then  after  that  he  said  to  his  disciples  :  Let  us  go 
into  Judea  again.  The  disciples  say  to  him ; 
Rabbi,  the  Jews  but  now  sought  to  stone  thee,  and 
goest  thou  thither  again  ?  Jesus  answered ;  Are  there 
not  twelve  hours  of  the  day  ?  If  a  man  walk  in  the 
day,  he  stumbleth  not,  because  he  seeth  the  light  of 
this  world  ;  but  if  he  walk  in  the  night  he  stumbleth, 
because  the  liaht  is  not  in  him.  These  things  he 
said;  and  after  that  he  said  to  them:  Lazarus  our 
friend  sleepeth  ;  but  I  go  that  !  may  awake  him.  His 
disciples  therefore  said  •  Lord,  if  he  sleep  he  shall 
do  well.  But  Jesus  spoke  of  his  death,  and  they 
thought  that  he  spoke  of  the  repose  of  sleep  Then 
therefore  J«.sus  said  to  them  plainly  i  Lazarus  is 


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dead ;  and  I  am  glad  for  your  sakes,  that  I  was 
not  there,  that  you  may  believe :  but  let  us  go  to 
him  Then  Thomas,  who  is  called  Didymus,  said 
to  his  fellow  disciples :  Let  us  also  go,  that  we  may 
die  with  him.  So  Jesus  cam'-,  and  found  that  he 
had  heen  four  days  already  in  the  grave.  (Now 
Bethania  was  near  Jerusalem,  about  fifteen  furlongs 
off.)  And  many  of  the  Jews  were  come  to  Martha 
and  Mary,  to  comfort  them  concerning  their  bro- 
ther. Martha  therefore,  as  soon  as  she  heard  that 
Jesus  was  come,  went  to  meet  him ;  but  Mary  sat 
at  home.  And  Martha  said  to  Jesus;  Lord,  ifthou 
hadst  been  here,  my  brother  had  not  died  ;  but  now 
also  I  know,  that  whatsoever  thou  wilt  ask  of  God, 
God  will  give  it  thee.  Jesus  saith  to  her:  Thy  bro« 
ther  shall  rise  again.  Martha  saith  to  him  :  I  know 
that  he  shall  ris-e  again  in  the  resurrection  at  the  last 
day.  Jesus  said  to  her:  I  am  the  resurrection  and 
the  life;  he  that  believeth  in  me,  although  he  be 
dead,  shall  live  :  and  every  one  that  liveth,  and  be- 
lieveth in  me,  shall  not  die  for  ever.  Believest 
thou  this?  She  saith  to  him:  Yea,  Lord,  J  have 
believed  that  thou  art  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living 
God,  who  art  come  into  this  world.  And  when 
she  had  said  these  things,  she  went,  and  called  her 
sister  Mary  secretly,  saving:  The  Master  is  come, 
and  calleth  for  thee.  She,  as  soon  as  she  heard  this, 
riseth  quickly,  and  cometh  to  him:  for  Jesus  was 
not  yet  come  into  the  town  ;  but  he  was  still  in  that 
p-lace  where  Martha  had  met  him.  The  Jews 
therefore,  who  were  with  her  in  the  house,  and 
comforted  her,  when  they  saw  Mary  that  she  rose 
up  speedily,  and  went  out,  followed  her,  saving 
She  goeth  to  the  grave,  to  weep  there.  When  Mary 
therefore  wa?  come  where  Jesus  vas,  seeing  him, 
she  fell  down  at  his  feet,  and  saith  to  him;  Lord,  if 
tho'i  hadst  been  here,  my  brother  had  not  died. 
\\  hen  Jesus  therefore  saw  her  weeping,  and  the 
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Jews  that  were  come  with  her,  weeping,  he  groan- 
ecl  ia  the  spirit,  and  troubled  himself.  And  said: 
Where  have  you  laid  him  ?  They  say  to  him:  Lord, 
come  and  see.*  And  Jesus  wept.  The  Jews  there- 
fore said :  Behold  how  he  loved  him.  But  some  of 
them  said:  Could  not  he,  that  opened  the  eyes  of 
the  man  born  blind,  have  caused  that  this  man 
should  not  die  ?  Jesus  therefore  again  groaning  ii 
himself,  cometh  to  the  sepulchre:  now  it  was  a 
cave,  and  a  stone  was  laid  over  it.  Jesus  saith  : 
Take  away  the  stone.  Martha,  the  sister  of  hirrj^ 
that  was  dead,  saith  to  him  :  Lord,  by  this  tirne  he 
stinketh,  for  he  is  now  there  four  days.  Jesus  saith  to 
her  :  Did  not  I  say  to  ihee,  that  if  thou  wilt  believe, 
thoushaltsee  the  glory  of  God?  They  took  there, 
fore  the  stone  away  :  and  Jesus  lifting  up  his  eyes, 
said:  Father,  I  give  thee  thanks  that  thou  hast 
heard  me.  And  I  know  that  thou  nearest  me  al- 
ways, but  because  of  the  peopl^  who  stand  about 
have  I  said  it,  that  they  may  believe  that  thou  hast 
sent  me.  When  he  had  said  these  things,  he  cried 
with  a  loud  voice :  Lazarus,  come  forth.  And 
presently  he  that  had  been  dead  came  forth, 
bound  feet  and  hands  with  winding  bands,  and  his 
face  was  IK> and  about  with  a  napkin.  Jesus  said  to 
them  :  Loose  him  and  let  him  go.  Many  there, 
fore  of  the  Jews,  who  were  come  to  Mary  and  Mar- 
tha, and  had  seen  the  things  that  Jesus  did,  believed 
in  htm. 

OFFERT.  P*.  xvii.— Thou,  O  Lord,  wilt  save 
thy  people  in  distress,  and  thou  wilt  humble  the 
eyes  of  the  proud:  for  who  is  God,  besides  thee,  O 
Lord? 

SECRET.  May  these  offerings,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  purify  us,  and  always  render  thee 
propitious.  Thro*. 

COMM,  John  xi.---The  Lord  seeing  the  sisters 
4f  Lazarus  weeping  at  tha  grave,  wept  before  the 


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Jews,  and  cried  out:  Lazarus,  ctome forth.  And  he 
who  had  been  dead  four  du)s,  tame  forth  bound 
hands  and  feet. 

P.  COMM.  line.—  May  the  receiving  of  this 
sacrament,  \ve  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  ever  tree 
us  from  our  sins,  and  protect  us  trom  all  adversity. 
Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.    Bo\v  do\\  n  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Uu  nubis. — Grant,  \ve  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  \\  ho  are  sensible  of  our 
oun  weakness,  and  confide  in  thy  power,  may  al- 
ways rejoice  in  the  effects,  of  thy  goodness.  Thro'. 

SATURDAY. 

INTRO1T.  Ps.  liv.— You  that  are  thirsty,  come 
to  the  waters,  saith  the  Lord  :  and  you  that  have  no 
money,  come  and  drink  with  joy.  1's.  Ixxvii  My 
people  be  attentive  to  my  law  :  hearken  to  the  words 
of  my  mouth.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Fiat  tiuimne.— Grant  us,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  thee,  an  increase  ot  devotion  :  for  theu 
only  will  our  fasts  avail  us,  when  they  are  well 
pleasing  to  thy  goodness.  Thro'. 

LESSON.     Isuias  xhx.    8,    15 Thus  saith  the 

Lord:  In  an  accceptable  timel  have  heard  thee, and 
in  the  day  of  salvation  i  have  helped  thee :  and  1 
have  preserved  thee,  and  given  thee  to  be  a  cove« 
nant  of  the  people,  that  tliou  mightest  raise  up  the 
earth,  and  posses^  the  inheritances  that  were  de- 
stroyed :  thut  tliou  mightest  say  to  them  that  are 
bound;  Come  forth  :  and  to  them  that  are  in  dark- 
ms!>;  Siiew  yourselves.  They  shall  feed  in  the 
ways,  and  their  pastures  shall  be. in  every  plain. 
They  shall  not  hunger  nor  thirst,  neither  shall  the 
heat  nor  the  sun  strike  them;  for  he  that  is  merciful 
to  them  shall  be  their  shepherd,  and  at  the  fountains 
ot  waters  he  shall  give  them  drink.  And  1  will 
make  all  my  mountains  a  way,  and  my  paths  shall 
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be  exalted.  Behold  these  shall  come  from  afar,  and 
behold  these  from  the  north  and  from  the  sea,  and 
these  from  the  south  country.  Give  praise,  O  ye 
heavens,  and  Tejoice,  O  earth,  ye  mountains  give 
praise  with  jubilation,  because  the  Lord  hath  com- 
forted his  people,  and  will  have  mercy  on  his  poor 
ones.  And  Sion  said:  The  Lord  hath  forsaken  me, 
and  the  Lord  hath  forgotten  me.  Can  a  woman 
forget  her  infant,  so  as  not  to  have  pity  on  the  son  of 
her  womb  ?  And  if  she  should  forget,  yet  will  I  not 
forget  thee,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

OR  AD.  Ps.  ix. — The  poor  man,  O  Lord,  is  left 
to  thee:  thou  wilt  be  the  protector  of  the  orphan. 
V.  Why  art  thou  withdrawn  so  far  from  us,  OLord? 
Dost  tnou  despise  us  in  our  necessities  and  afflic- 
tion ?  When  the  wicked  man  is  puffed  up  with 
pride,  the  poor  man  suftereth. 

Cf500pCl+  John  viii.  12.  20. —At  that  time: 
Jesus  spoke  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jtzrs,  saying;  I  am 
the  light  of  the  world  ;  he  that  followeth  me,  walk- 
eth  not  in  darkness,  but  shall  have  the  light  of  life. 
The  Pharisees  therefore  said  to  him ;  Thou  givest 
testimony  of  thyself;  thy  testimony  is  not  true. 
Jesus  answered,  and  said  to  them  :  Although  I  give 
testimony  of  myself,  my  testimony  is  true;  for  I 
know  whence  I  came,  and  whither  f  go:  but  you 
know  not  whence  I  come,  or  whither  I  go.  You 
judge  according  to  the  flesh  ;  I  judge  not  any  man. 
And  if  I  do  judge,  my  judgment  is  true,  because  I 
am  not  alone  j  but  1  and  the  Father  that  sent  me. 
And  in  your  law  it  is  written,  that  the  testimony  of 
two  men  is  true.  1  am  one  that  give  testimony  of 
myself;  and  the  Father  that  sent  me,  giveth  testU 
mony  of  me.  They  said  therefore  to  him  :  Where 
is  thy  Father  ?  Jesus  answered  :  Neither  me  do  you 
know,  nor  my  Father:  if  you  did  know  me,  you 
would  know  my  Father  also.  These  words  Jesus 
spoke  in  the  treasury,  teaching  in  the  ttmple :  and 


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no  man  laid  hands  on  him,  because  his  hour  was 
not  yt-t  come. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xvii. — The  Lord  is  my  support, 
my  refuse,  and  my  deliverer:  in  him  will  1  trust. 

'SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  with  these  our  offerings  ;  and,  in  thy  mercy, 
compel  our  will,  even  when  it  rebelleih,  to  submit 
to  thee  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xxi.— The  Lord  is  my  shepherd, 
and  [  s'.^all  be  in  want  of  nothing:  he  hath  placed 
me  in  a  plentiful  pasture 5  he  hath  led  me  to  a  re- 
fresh in  £  stream. 

P.  COMM.  Tua  7205.— May  thy  sacred  mysteries, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  purify  us,  and,  by  their 
efficacy,  make  us  well  pleasing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Deus  gtti,— O  God,  who  chusest 
rather  to  shew  mercy,  than  to  be  angry  with  those 
that  hope  in  thee;  grant  we  may  worthily  lament 
the  evil  we  have  committed,  that  so  we  may  find  the 
favour  of  thy  comfort.  Thro*. 

PASSION  SUNDAY. 

^T^HE  two  last  weeks  of  Lent  are,  in  a  particular  man- 
JL  ner,  consecrated  to  the  Passion  of  Jesus  Ghiist.  And 
altho'  that  upon  which-  we  are  now  entering,  be  only  a 
preparation  to  the  following^  and  the  Church  represents 
therein  other  objects  to  our  thoughts,  the  passion  of  Christ 
is  nevertheless  often  referred  to,  for  wh'.ch  reason  this 
day  is  called  PA*SION->:U  M>  AY 

Psalm  7*/.v.,  as  well  as  the  Gloria  Pair i,  at  the 
Introit,  is  omitted  .  and  those  «vho  have  written  on  the 
Liturgy,  assert  this  to  be  ^r.-eable  to  the  ancient  practice. 
They  farther  ia  geoeral  observe,  that  the  particular  cere- 
monies of  these  two  last  wcr-ks,  but  more  especially  of 
the  three  last  days  tu  Lent,  aie  venerable  remains  • 
ticii:  usages. 


2IO  PASSION    SUNDAY. 

INTROIT.     Ps.  xlii. 

JUDGE  me,  O  God,  TUDICAme,  Deus,  et 

J  and  distinguish  my  **  discertie  cuvsam  meam 
cause fromthenationthat  dc  gente  mm  stmcta.  Ab 
is  not  holy  :  deliver  me  huminc  iniquo  et  doioso 
from  the  wicked  and  eripe  me :  quid,  tu  es 
deceitful  man  :  for  then  Dcus  meus,  et  fortitudo 
art  my  God  and  my  mat. 
strength.  Pi.  Send-forth  Ps.  Emitte  laccm  tnam 

thy  light  and  thy  truth  :  ct  r-criturem  tuam  :  ipsa 
for  they  have  conducted  tnt  ctcda.it. runt  ct  uddux- 
me,  and  hrought  me  to  eruntin  monton  sanctum 
thy  holy  mountain,  and  tuum,  et  in  tubernacu/a 
into  thy  tabernacle.  tua.  JuUtca  me,  $c.  to 
Judge  me,  &c,  Ps. 

Gloria  Patria  is  omitted  till  Easter. 

COLLECT  QtHttumus* — Mercifully  look  down 
on  thy  people,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that,  by  thy  bounty  and  protection,  they  may 
be  governed  and  guarded  both  in.  body  and  soul. 
Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Heb.  ix.  n.  15.—  Brethren:  Christ 
being  come,  an  high  priest  of  the  good  things  to 
come,  by  a  greater  and  more  perfect  tabernacle  not 
made  with  hands,  th'.it  is,  not  of  this  creation  :  nei- 
ther by  the  blood  of  goats,  or  of  calves,  but  by  his 
own  blood,  entered  once  into  the  Holies,  rmving 
obtained  eternal  redemption.  For  if  the  blood  of 
goats  and  of  oxen,  and  the  ashes  of  an  heifer  being 
sprinkled,  sanctify  such  as  are  defiled,  to  the  cleans- 
ing of  the  flesh  :  how  much  more  shall  the-  blood  of 
Christ  ^who  thro'  the  Holy  Ghost  offered  himself 
without  spot  to  God)  cleanse  our  conscience  from 
dead  works  to  serve  the  living  God  ?  And  there- 
fore he  is  the  mediator  of  the  new  testament:  that 
by  means  of  his  death,  for  the  redemption  of  those 
transgressions  which  were  under  the  former  testa* 


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ment,  they  that  are  called  may  receive  the  promise 
of  eternal  inheritance. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxlii.— Deliver  me,  O  Lord,  from 
my  enemies;  ttach  me  to  do  thy  will.  Ps.  xxvii* 
Thou,  O  Lord,  art  my  deliverer  from  the  enraged 
Gentiles :  thou  wilt  put  me  out  of  the  reach  of 
those  that  assault  me ;  and  thou  wilt  rescue  me  from 
the  unrighteous  man. 

TRACT*  Ps.  cxxviii. —  Strpe  erpugnavcwnt  me 
ajuvtnlutc  mca.  They  have  often  attacked  me  from 
my  very  youth.  V.  Let  Israel  now  say:  They  have 
often  attacked  me  from  my  very  youth.  V.  But 
they  ne  er  could  prevail  against  me:  sinners  have 
plowed  up  my  back.  V.  They  have  a  long  time 
continued  in  their  iniquity  :  but  the  Lord,  who  is 
just,  will  at  last  cut  o*ff  the  heads  of  those  sinful 
men. 

(I50#p£l.  John  viii.  46.  59. — At  that  iirne:  Jesus 
said  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jews  ;  Which  or'  you 
shall  convince  me  of  sin?  If  I  sav  the  truth  to  you, 
why  do  you  not  believe  me  ?  He  that  is  of  God, 
heareth  the  words  of  God  ;  therefore  you  hear  them 
not,  because  you  are  not  of  God.  The  Jews  therefore 
answered,  and  said  to  him  :  Do  not  we  say  well  that 
thou  art  a  Samaritan,  and  hast  a  devil  ?  Jesus  an- 
swered ;  I  have  not  a  devil  ;  but  1  honour  my  Fa« 
ther,  and  you  have  dishonoured  me.  But  I  seek  not 
my  own  glory  ;  there  is  one  that  seeketh  and  j;idg- 
fth.  Amen,  amen,  I  say  to  you:  If  any  man  keep 
my  \vord,  he  shall  not  see  death  for  ever.  The 
Jews  therefore  said  :  Now  we  know  that  thou  hast  a 
devil.  Abraham  i>  dead,  and  the  prophets ;  and 
thousayest:  If  any  man  keep  my  word,  he  shall 
not  taste  death  for  ever.  Art  thou  greater  than 
our  Father  Abraham,  who  is  dead?  and  the  pro. 
phets  are  dead.  Whom  dost  thou  make  thyself? 
Jesus  answered ;  If  1  glorify  myself,  my  glory  is  no- 
thing.  It  is  my  Father  that  glorifieth  me,  of  whom 


212  MONDAY  IN  PASSION  WEEK. 

you  say  that  be  is  your  God.  And  yon  have  not 
known  him,  but  I  know  him.  And  if  I  should  lay 
that  1  know  him  not,  I  should  be  like  to  you,  a  liar. 
But  I  know  him,  and  keep  his  word.  Abra- 
ham your  father  rejoiced  that  he  might  see  my  day  : 
he  saw  it,  and  was  glad.  The  Jews  then  said  to 
him  ;  Thou  art  not  yet  fifty  years  old,  and  hast  thou. 
seen  Abraham?  Jesus  said  to  them:  Amen,  amen, 
I  say  to  you,  before  Abraham  was  made,  1  am. 
Then  they  took  up  stones  to  cast  at  him.  But  Jesus 
hid  himself,  and  went  out  of  the  temple. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xcviii I  will  praise  thee,  O 

Lord,  with  my  whole  heart:  reward  thy  servant :  I 
shall  live,  and  keep  thy  commandments ;  save  my 
life,  according  to  thy  word,  O  Lord. 

SECRET.  May  these  offerings,  O  Lord,  both 
loosen  the  bonds  of  our  wickedness,  and  obtain  for 
us  the  gifts  of  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

Preface.   *  Qui  salulem  humani  generis,  p   xxx. 

CO  MM,  This  is  the  body  which  shall  be  deli- 
vered up  for  you;  this  is  the  cup  of  the  new  covenant 
in  my  blood,  saith  the  Lord.  As  often  as  you  re« 
ceive  them,  do  it  in  remembrance  of  me. 

P.  COMM.  AdestQ.~$elp  us  O  Lord  our  God, 
and  for  ever  protect  those  whom  thou  hast  refreshed 
with  thy  sacred  mysteries.  Thro'. 

MONDAY. 
INTRO1T.  Ps.  lv.— Have  mercy  on  me,  O  Lord, 

for  man  hath  trodden  me  under  foot ;  he  hath  as- 
saulted and  persecuted  me  the  whole  day  long.  PS. 
My  enemies  have  trampled  me  under  foot  the  whole 
day  long:  and  the  number  of  those  that  assault  rue 
is  verv  great.  Have  mercy,  &c.  to  Ps. 

COLLECT.  Sanc*j#;0.~-?Sanctify,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  tht'p,  our  fusts,  and  mercifully  grant  U3  the 
pardon  of  all  our  sins.  Thro'. 

LESSON.    Jvnas  iii.    i.  lo.— In  those  dans:  The 


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word  of  the  Lord  came  to  Jonas  the  second  time, 
saying:  Arise,  and  go  to  ISinive  the  great  city  ;  and 
preach  in  it  the  \  reaching  that  I  bid  thee.  And 
Jonas  arose,  and  went  to  Ninive  according  to  the 
word  of  the  Lord  :  now  Ninive  was  a  great  city  of 
three  days  journey.  And  Jonas  be«an  to  entt-r  into 
the  city  one  day's  journey  :  and  he  cried  and  said  : 
Yet  forty  days  and  Ninive  shall  be  destroyed.  And 
the  men  of  Ninive  believed  in  God  :  and  they  pro- 
claimed  a  fast,  and  put  on  sackcloth  from  the  great- 
est  to  the  least.  And  the  word  carne  to  the  King 
of  Ninive;  and  he  rose  up  out  of  his  throne,  and 
cast  away  his  robe  from  him,  and  was  cloathed  with 
sackcloth,  and  sat  in  ashes.  And  he  caused  it  to  be 
proclaimed  and  published  inlSinive  from  the  mouth 
of  the  king  and  of  his  princes,  saying:  Let  neither 
men  nor  beasts,  oxen  nor  sheep,  taste  any  thing  ; 
let  them  not  feed,  nor  drink  water.  And  let  men 
and  beasts  be  covered  with  sackcloth,  and  cry  to  the 
Lord  with  all  their  strength,  and  let  them  turn  every 
one  from  his  evil  way,  and  from  the  iniquity  that 
is  in  their  hands.  Who  can  tell  if  God  will  turn, 
and  forgive:  and  will  turn  away  fiom  his  fierce 
anger,  and  we  shall  not  perish  >  And  God  saw  their 
works,  that  they  were  turned  from  their  evil  way: 
and  the  Lord  our  God  had  mercy  on  the  people. 

GRAD.  Ps.  liii.— -O  God,  hear  my  prayer,  and 
hearken  to  the  words  of  my  mouth.  V.  Save  me, 
O  God,  by  thy  name,  and  rescue  me  by  thy  might. 

TRACT,  Ps.  cii.  Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117. 
^  (BOtfptU  John  vii.  32.  39.—^  that  time: 
The  rulrrs  and  Pharisees  sent  ministers  to  appre- 
hend Jesus.  Jesus  therefore  said  to  them:  Yet  a 
little  while  I  am  with  vou :  and  then  1  go  to  him 
that  sent  me.  You  shall  seek  me,  and  shall  not  iind 
me:  and  where  I  am,  thither  you  cannot  come. 
The  Jews  therefore,  said  among  themselves ;  Whi- 


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ther  will  he  go,  that  we  shall  not  find  him  ?  will  he 
go  to  the  dispersed  among  the  Gentiles,  and  teach 
the  Gentiles  ?  What  is  this  saying  that  he  hath  said  : 
You  shall  seek  me,  and  shall  not  find  me  ;  and 
\vhere  1  am  you  cannot  come  ?  And  on  the  last 
and  great  day  of  the  festival,  Jesus  stood  and  cried, 
saying:  if  any  man  thirst,  let  him  come  to  me,  and 
drink.  He  that  believeth  in  me,  as  the  scripture 
saith,  "Out  of  his  belly  shall  flow  rivers  of  living 
water,"  Now  this  he  said  of  the  Spirit  which  they 
should  receive  who  believed  in  him, 

OFFERT.  Ps.  vi. — Turn  to  me,  O  Lord,  and 
rescue  my  soul :  save  me  tor  thy  mercy's  sake. 

SECRET.  Grant  us,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  the 
sacrifice  of  our  salvation  may  both  cleanse  us  from 
our  sins,  and  appease  thy  Majesty*  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  xxiii — The  Lord  of  armies  is  him- 
self the  King  of  Glory. 

P.  COMM.  Sacrawenti. — May  the  participation, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  of  this  saving  sacrifice 
both  cleanse  us,  and  heal  us.  Thro'. 

L(t  •  s  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Da  qiucsumux. — Grant,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  to  thy  people  health  both  of  body 
and  mind,  that  being  constant  in  the  practice  of 
good  works,  they  may  always  be  safe  under  thy 
protection.  Thro'. 

TUESDAY. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  xxvu— Wait  for  the  Lord,  act 
manfully,  let  thy  heart  be  comforted,  and  wait  for 
the  Lord.  Ps.  The  Lord  is  my  lighi  and  my  salva- 
tion, whom  shall  I  fear  ? 

COLLECT.  Rostra.--.  May  our  fast,  O  Lord, 
We  beseech  thee,  be  acceptable  to  thee,  and,  having 
purified  us  from  sin,  make  us  worthy  of  thy  grace, 
and  procure  us  everlasting  remedies.  Thro'. 


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LESSON.  Dan.  xiv.  27  42.-- In  those  days  :  The 
people  of  Babylon  gathered  together  against  the 
king,  and  said  to  him  :  Deliver  up  to  us  Daniel, 
who  hath  destroyed  Bel,  and  killed  the  Dragon, 
otherwise  we  will  destroy  thee  and  thy  family,; 
And  the  king  saw  that  tbey  pressed  upon  him  vio- 
lently :  and  being  constrained  by  necessity,  he  de- 
livered Daniel  to  them*  And  they  cast  him  into  the 
den  of  lions,  and  he  was  there  six  davs.  And  in  the 
den  there  were  se  eti  lions,  and  they  had  given  to 
them  two  carcases  every  day,  and  two  sheep:  but  then 
they  were  not  given  unto  them,  to  the  intent  that  they 
might  devour  Daniel.  Now  there  was  in  Jt: 
prophet  named  Habacuc,  and  he  had  boiled  pot- 
tage, and  had  broken  bread  in  a  bowl  ;  and  was 
gorcg  into  the  field  to  carry  it  to  the  reapers.  And 
the  angel  of"  the  Lord  said  to  Habacuc :  Carry  the 
dinner  which  thou  hast,  into  Babylon  to  Daniel, 
who  is  in  the  lions  den.  And  Habacuc  said:  Lord, 
I  never  saw  Babylon,  nor  do  1  know  the  den.  And 
the  angel  of  the  Lord  took  him  by  the  top  of  his 
head,  and  carried  him  by  the  hair  of  his  head,  and 
set  him  in  Babylon  over  the  den  in  the  force  of  his 
spirit.  And  Habacuc  cried,  saying:  O  Daniel, 
thou  servant  of  God,  take  the  dinner  that  God  hath 
sent  th.'H.  And  Daniel  said:  Thou  hast  remem- 
bered me,  O  God,  and  thou  hast  not  forsaken 
them  that  love  thee  And  Daniel  arose  and  ate. 
And  the  angel  of  the  Lord  presently  set  Habacuc 
again  in  his  own  place.  And  upon  the  seyenth 
day  the  king  came  to  bewail  Daniel :  and  he  came 
to  the  den,  and  looked  in,  and  behold  Daniel  was 
sitting  in  the  midst  of  the  lions.  And  the  !:ing 
cried  out  with  a  loud  voice,  saying:  Great  art  thou, 
O  Lord,  the  God  of  Daniel.  And  lied  few  him  out 
of  the  lions  den.  But  those  that  had  been  the  cause 
of  his  destruction,  he  cast  into  the  den,  and  they 
\vere  devoured  in  a  moment  before  him.  Then  the 


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king  said :  Let  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  whole  earth 
fear  the  God  of  Daniel ;  for  he  is  the  Saviour,  work- 
ing signs  and.  wonders  in  the  earth;  who  hath  deli, 
vered  Daniel  oat  of  the  lions  den. 

GRAD.  PS.  xlii. — Judge  my  cause,  O  Lord,  and 
deliver  me  from  the  wicked  and  deceitful  man.  V» 
Send  forth  thy  light  and  thy  truth  ;  for  they  have  led 
me  on  and  brought  me  up  to  thy  holy  mount. 

CB00p0U  John  vii.  i.  13, — At  thai  time:  Jesus 
walked  in  Galilee*,  for  he  would  not  walk  in  Judea  : 
because  the  Jews  sought  to  kill  him.  Now  the  Jews 
feast  of  tabernacles  was  at  hand.  And  his  brethren 
said  to  him  :  Depart  from hence,  and  £0  into  Judea; 
that  thy  disciples  also  may  see  thy  works  which  thon 
dost.  For  there  is  no  man  that  doth  any  thing  in 
secret,  and  he  himself  seeketh  to  be  known  openly  ; 
If  thou  do  these  things  manifest  thyself  to  the  world. 
For  neither  did  his  brethren  believe  in  him.  Then 
Jesus  said  to  them:  My  time  is  not  yet  come;  but 
your  time  is  always  ready.  The  world  cannot  hate 
you  ;  but  me  it  hateth :  because  L  give  testimony  of 
it,  that  the  works  thereof  are  evil.  Go  you  up  to 
this  festival  day,  but  I  go  not  up  to  this  festival  day : 
because  my  time  is  not  fully  come.  When  he  had 
said  these  things,  he  himself  staid  in  Galilee.  But 
after  his  brethren  were  gone  up,  then  he  also  went 
up  to  the  feast,  not  openly,  but  as  it  were  in  secret. 
The  Jews  therefore  sought  him  on  the  festival  day, 
and  said  :  Where  is  he  ?  And  there  was  much  mur- 
muring among  the  multitude  concerning  him.  For 
some  said  :  Be  is  a  good  man.  And  others  said : 
No,  but  he  seduceth  the  people.  Yet  no  man 
spoke  openly  of  him,  for  fear  of  the  Jews. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  ix.— Let  all,  who  know  thy  name, 
O  Lord,  hope  in  thee  ;  for  thon  forsakest  not  .those 
who  seek  thee.  Sing  to  the  Lord,  who  dvvelleth  on 
Sion,  for  he  hath  not  forgot  the  prayer  of  the  poor. 


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SECRET.  The  sacrifices  we  beg  to  he  offered 
to  thee,  O  Lord,  are  such  tokens  of  temporal  com- 
fort,  that  we  cannot  despair  of  thy  eternal  promises. 

COMM.  Ps.  xxiv.— Deiiver'me,  O  God  of  Israel, 
from  all  my  distress. 

P.  COMM.  Da  nobis. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  as  we  daily  celebrate  these 
divine  mysteries,  we  may  be  made  worthy  of  ihe 
rewards  of  heaven.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray,     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Da  nobis.— Grant  us,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  perseverance  in  thy  service;  that  in  our 
days  thy  faithful  may  increase  both  in  number  and 
goodness.  Thro*. 

WEDNESDAY. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xvii. — O  my  deliverer  from  the 
angry  Gentile.%  ihou  wilt  place  me  oiu  of  the  reach 
or  those  that  assault  me:  thou,  O  Lord,  wilt  rescue 
me  from  the  unrighteous  man.  IV.  I  will  love  thee, 
O  Lord,  my  strength:  the  Lord  is  my  support,  my 
refuge,  and  my  deliverer. 

COLLECT.  Sanc/i/Jca(o....finlighte^  O  God  of 
mercy,  the  hearts  of  thy  people  by  means  of  this  holy 
tastj  and  since  all  our  devotion  is  the  effect  of  thy 
bounty,  mercifully  hear  the  petitions  we  make.  Thro', 

LKSSON.  Lev.  xix.  10. 19.— In  those  days:  The 
Lord  spake  to  Moses,  saying;  Speak  to  all  the  as- 
sembly of  the  children  of  Israel,  and  thou  shalt  say 
to  them:  I  am  the  Lord  your  God.  You  shall  not 
sieal.  You  shall  not  lie;  neither  shall  any  man  de- 
ceive his  neighbour.  Thou  shalt  not  swear  falsely 
by  my  name,  nor  profane  the  name  of  thy  God.  I 
am  the  Lord.  Thou  shalt  not  calumniate  thy  neigh- 
bour, nor  oppress  him  by  violence.  The  wages  of 
him  that  \r.\>  been  hired  by  t'ue  shitll  not  abide  with 
thee  until  the  morning.  Thou  sluut  not  speak,  evil 
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of  the  deaf,  nor  put  a  stumbling-block  before  the 
blind  j  but  thou  shnlt  fear  the  Lord  thy  God,  because 
I  am  the  Lord.  Thou  shalt  not  do  that  which  is 
unjust,  nor  judge  unjustly.  Respect  not  the  person 
of  the  poor,  nor  honour  the  countenance  of  the 
mighty.  But  judge  thy  neighbour  according  to  jus- 
tice. Thou  shalt  not  be  a  detracter  nor  a  whisperer 
among  the  people.  Thou  shalt  not  stand  against  the 
blood  of  thy  neighbour.  I  am  the  Lord.  Thou 
shalt  not  hate  thy  brother  in  thy  heart,  but  reprove 
him  openly,  lest  thou  incur  sin  through  him.  Seek 
not  revenge,  nor  be  mindful  of  the  injury  of  thy  citi- 
zens. Thou  shalt  love  thy  friend  as  thyself.  '  I  am 
the  Lord.  Keep  ye  my  la\vs>%/br  I  am  the  Lord  your 
God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxix.— •  I  will  praise  thee,  O  Lord,  be- 
cause thou  hast  upholden  me  ;  and  hast  not  let  my 
enemies  rejoice  over  me.  F",  O  Lord  my  God,  I 
have  cried  out  to  thee,  and  thou  hast  healed  mej 
thou,  O  Lord,  hath  rescued  my  soul  from  hell,  and 
hast  saved  me  from  the  number  of  those  that  are 
gone  down  into  the  pit, 

TRACT.     Ps.  cii.—Deal  not,  &c.  p.  117. 

(BOgpeU  John  x.  22.38.—^  that  time-.  It 
was  the  feast  of  the  dedication  at  Jerusalem ;  and 
it  was  winter.  And  Jesus  walked  in  the  temple  in 
Solomon's  porch,  the  Jews  therefore  came  round 
about  him,  and  said  to  him  :  How  long  dost  thou 
hold  our  souls  in  suspense  ?  if  thou  be  the  Christ  tell 
us  plainly.  Jesus  answered  them:  1  speak  to  you, 
and  you  believe  not;  the  works  that  I  do  in  the 
name  of  my  Father,  they  give  testimony  of  me  :  but 
you  do  not  believe,  because  you  are  not  of  my  sheep. 
My  sheep  hear  my  voice:  and  I  know  them,  and 
they  follow  me;  and  I  give  them  eternal  life;  and 
they  shall  not  perish  for  ever,  and  no  man  shall 
s-natch  them  out  of  my  hand.  That  which  my  Fa- 
ther hath  given  me,  is  greater  'han  all:  and  no  one 


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can  snatch  them  out  of  the  hand  of  my  Father.  I 
and  the  Father  are  one.  The  Jews  then  took  up 
stones  to  stone  him.  Jesus  answered  them  ;  Many 
good  works  1  have  shewed  you  from  my  Father;  for 
winch  of  those  works  do  you  stone  me?  The  Jews 
answered  him :  For  a  good  work  we  stone  thee  not, 
but  for  blasphemy :  and  because  that  thou  being  a 
man  makest  thyself  God.  Jesus  answered  them  :  Is 
it  not  written  in  your  law  ;  I  said,  you  arc  Gods  V  If 
he  called  them  gods,  to  whom  the  word  of  God 
was  spoken,  and  the  scripture  cannot  be  broken ; 
do  you  say,  of  him,  whom  the  Father  hath  sanctified 
and  sent  into  the  world;  Thou  blasphemest;  be- 
cause  i  said,  1  am  the  Son  of  God  ?  If  I  do  not  the 
works  ot  my  Father,  believe  me  not.  But  if  I  do  : 
though  you  will  not  believe  me,  believe  the  works, 
that  you  may  know  and  belitve  that  the  Father  is  in 
me,  and  1  in  the  Father. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Iviii.— Deliver  me,  O  my  Goc?, 
from  my  enemies;  and  rescue  me,  O  Lord,  from 
those  that  rise  up  against  me. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  merciful  God,  that  we  may 
offer  thee,  with  a  sincere  heart,  this  sacrifice  of  pro- 
pitiation and  praise.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xxv. — 1  will  wash  my  hands  with 
the  innocent,  and  go  round  thy  altar,  O  Lord,  that 
I  may  hear  the  voice  of  thy  praise,  and  publish  all 
thy  wonderful  works. 

P.  COMM.  Calt'stis.— Having  received  thy  hea- 
venly gift,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  it  may  produce  in  us  the  effect  of  the  sa- 
crament, and  procure  our  salvation.  Thro*. 

Let  us  pray.    Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.     Adcsto. — Hear  our  prayers  and   en- 
treaties, O  Almighty  God,  and  grant  that  those  to 
whom  thou  givest  hopes  of  thy  mercy,  may  experi- 
ence the  effects  of  thy  usual  clemency.     Thro*. 
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THURSDAY. 

1NTROTT.  Dan.  iii.~ All  thou  hast  done  for  us, 
O  Lord,  thou  bast  done  with  great  justice  ;  because 
we  have  sinned  against  thee,  and  have  not  obeyed 
thy  commandments:  but  do  thou  make  thy  name 
glorious,  and  deal  with  us  according  to  the  multitude 
of  thy  mercies.  Ps.  cxviii. — Blessed  are  the  unde- 
filed  in  the  way,  who  walk  in  the  law  of  the  Lord. 

COLLECT.  Prasta.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  Gotl,  that  the  dignity  of  humau  nature, 
which  hath  been  wounded  by  excess,  may  be  cured 
by  the  practice  of  healing  temperance.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  D/w.iii  3445. — In  those  days ;  Aza- 
rias  prayed  to  the  Lord,  saying:  Deliver  us  not  up 
for  ever,  we  beseech  thee,  for  thy  name's  sake,  and 
abolish  not  thy  covenant;  and  take  not  away  thy 
mercy  from  us  for  the  sake  of  Abraham  thy  beloved, 
and  Isaac  thy  servant,  and  Israel  thy  holy  one:  to 
whom  thou  hast  spoken,  promising  that  thou  wouldst 
multiply  their  seed  as  the  stars  of  heaven,  and  as  the 
sand  thai  is  on  the  sea  shore.  For  we,  O  Lord,  are 
diminished  more  than  any  nation,  and  are  brought 
low  in  all  the  earth  this  day  for  our  sins.  Neither  is 
there  at  this  time  prince,  or  leader,  or  prophet,  or 
holocaust,  or  sacrifice,  or  oblation,  or  incense,  or 
place  of  first-fruits  before  thee.  That  we  may  find 
thy  mercy :  nevertheless  in  a  contrite  heart  and  hum- 
ble spirit  let  us  be  accepted.  As  in  holocausts  of 
rams,  and  bullocks,  and  as  in  thousands  of  fat  lambs: 
so  let  our  sacrifice  be  made  in  thy  sight  this  day, 
that  it  may  please  thee:  for  there  is  no  confusion  to 
them  that  trust  in  thee.  And  now  we  follow  thee 
with  all  our  heart,  and  we  fear  thee,  and  seek  thy 
face.  Put  us  not  to  confusion,  but  deal  with  us  ac- 
cording to  thy  meekness,  and  according  to  the  multi- 
tude of  thy  mercies.  And  deliver  us  according  to 
thy  wonderful  works,  and  give  glory  to  thy  name,  O 


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Lord:  and  let  all  them  be  confounded  that  shew 
evils  to  thy  servants,  let  them  be  confounded  in  all 
thy  might,  and  let  their  strength  be  broken:  and  let 
them  know  that  thou  art  the  Lord,  the  only  God, 
and  glorious  over  all  the  world.  O  Lord  our  God. 

GRAD.  Ps*  xciv. — Take  your  sacrifices  and  enter 
his  courts;  adore  the  Lord  in  his  sanctuary.  V.  Ps. 
xxviii.  The  Lord  will  open  the  thick  woods;  and 
all  shall  publish  his  glory  in  his  temple. 

(0P0p0l*  Luke.  vii.  36.  50. — At  that  time: 
One  of  the  Pharisees  desired  him  to  eat  with  him. 
And  he  went  into  the  house  of  ihe  Pharisee,  and  at 
down  to  meat.  And  behold  a  woman  in  the  city 
that  was  a  sinner,  when  she  knew  that  he  sat  at 
meat  in  the  Pharisee's  house,  brought  an  alabaster 
box  of  ointment:  and  standing  bthmd  at  his  feet, 
she  began  to  wash  his  teet  with  tears,  and  wiped 
them  with  the  hairs  of  h<T  head,  and  kissed  his  feet, 
and  anointed  them  with  the  ointment.  And  the 
Pharisee,  who  had  invited  him,  seeing  it,  spoke  with- 
ia  himself  saying:  This  man,  if  he  were  a  prophet, 
Would  know' surely  who  and  what  manner  of  wo. 
man  this  is  that  touched  him,  that  «he  is  a  sinner. 
And  Jesus  answering,  said  to  him,  Simon,  I  have 
somewhat  to  say  to  tliee.  But  he  said  ;  Master,  say 
it.  A  certain  creditor  had  two  debtors,  the  one 
owed  five  hundred  pence,  and  the  other  fifty.  And 
whereas  they  had  not  wherewith  to  pay,  he  forgave 
them  both.  Which  therefore  of  the  two  loveth  him 
most  ?  Simon  answering,  said  :  I  suppose  that  he 
to  v  horn  he  forgave  most.  And  he  said  to  him: 
Thou  hast  judged  rightly.  And  turning  to  the  wo- 
man, he  said  to  Simon :  Dost  thou  see  this  woman  ? 
I  entered  into  thy  house,  thou  gavest  me  no  wa- 
ter tor  my  feet;  but  she  hath  wasneu  my  feet  wnh 
tears,  and  wiped  them  with  her  hairs.  Thou  gavest 
me  no  kiss;  but  she,  since  she  came  in,  hath  not 
ceased  to  kiss  my  feet.  My  head  with  oil  thou 
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did  not  anoint;  but  she  with  ointment  hath  anoint, 
ed  my  feet.  \Vherefore  I  say  to  thee  ;  Many  sina 
are  forgiven  her,  tor  she  hath  loved  much.  But  to 
\\hom  less  is  /orgiven,  he  loveth  less.  And  he  said 
to  her;  Thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee.  And  they  that 
sat  at  meat  with  him  began  to  say  within  themselves; 
\Vho  is  this  that  forgiveth  sins  also  ?  And  he  said  to 
the  woman;  Thy  faith  hath  made  the  safe,  go  in 
peace. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxxvi.— Near  the  rivers  of  Baby. 
Ion  we  sat  down  and  wept,  whilst  we  remembered 
thee,  O  Sion. 

SECRET.  O  Lord  our  God,  who  hast  appointed 
the  offerings  to  be  consecrated  to  thee,  to  consist 
chiefly  of  those  creatures,  which  tho'u  createdst  for 
the  support  of  our  weakness:  grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
that  they  may  be  to  us  both  a  help  in  this  life,  and  a 
sacrament  to  procure  us  that  which  is  eternal.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  cxviii.— Remember,  O  Lord,  the 
promise  thou  madest  to  thy  servant,  by  which  thou 
gavest  me  hope;  it  is  that  which  hath  comforted  me 
in  my  distress. 

P.  COMM.  Quod. —Grant,  O  Lord,  that  what  we 
have  received  with  our  mouths  we  may  also  take 
with  a  pure  mind:  and  that,  of  a  temporary  gift,  it 
ma)  become  to  us  an  eternal  remedy.  Thro'. 

Le<  ns  ]>ray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.     Esto. — Be  propitious,   O  Lord,  we 
hestech   thee,  to  thy  people:  that,  forsaking  what 
displeaseth  »hee,  they  may  find  comfort  in  keeping 
thy  law.     Tl if o.- 
FRIDAY. 

INTRO  IT.  Ps.  xxx,— Have  mercy  on  me,  O 
Lord, /or  I  arn  in  distress:  deliver  me  and  rescue  me 
from  the.  hands  of  my  enemies,  and  my  pursuers  : 
Lord,  let  me  never  be  put  to  shame,  since  I  have 
called  on  thee.  PJ.  In  thee,  O  Lord,  have  1  hoped  : 


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never  let  rae  be  put  to  shame:  deliver  me  according 
to  thy  justice. 

COLLECT.  Cordibus.  —  Mercifully,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  thee,  pour  forth  thy  grace  into  our  hearts ; 
that  repressing  our  sins  by  voluntary  mortifications, 
we  may  rather  suffer  for  them  in  this  life,  than  be 
condemned  to  eternal  torments  for  them  in  the  nrxt. 
Thro'. 

LESSON.  Jer.  xvii.  13.  » 8.-  In  those  days :  Jere- 
mias  said-.  O  Lord,  the  hope  of  Israel:  all  that  for- 
sake thee  shall  be  confounded:  they  that  depari 
from  thee,  shall  be  written  in  the  earth;  because 
they  have  forsaken  the  Lord,  the  vein  ofliving  wa- 
ters. Heal  me,  O  Lord,  and  I  shall  be  healed  :  save 
me,  and  I  shall  be  saved ;  for  thou  art  my  praise. 
Behold  they  say  to  me;  Where  is  the  word  of  the 
Lord?  let  it  come.  And  I  am  not  troubled,  fol- 
lowing thee  for  my  pastor,  and  I  have  not  desired 
the  day  of  man,  thou  knowest  it.  That  which  went 
ont  of  my  lips,  hath  been  right  in  thy  sight.  Be 
not  thou  a  terror  unto  me,  thou  art  my  hope  in  the 
day  of  affliction.  Let  them  be  confounded  that  per- 
secute me,  and  let  not  me  be  confounded  :  let  them 
be  afraid,  and  let  me  not  be  afraid  ;  bring  upon  them 
the  day  of  affliction,  and  with  a  double  destruction, 
destroy  them,  0  Lord  our  God. 

GRAI).  Pf.  xxiv.— My  enemies  spoke  peaceably 
tome;  but  in  their  anger  they  were  troublesome  to 
me.  V.  Thou  hast  seen  it,  O  Lord,  be  not  silent  ; 
abandon  not  me. 

TRACT.     Pa.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c.  /MI 7. 

(!600pCU  John  xi.  47.  54. — Al  that  time  ; 
The  chief  priests  and  Pharisees  assembled  in  council 
against  Jesus,  and  said  :  What  do  we,  for  this  man 
doth  many  miracles?  If  we  let  him  alone  so,  all 
men  will  believe  in  him:  and  the  Romans  will 
come,  and  take  away  our  place  and  nation.  But 
one  of  them  named  Caiphas,  being  the  high-priest 


224  FRIDAY    IN 

that  year,  said  to  them:  You  know  nothing  at  all, 
neither  do  you  consider  that  it  is  expedient  for  you 
that  one  man  should  die  fur  the  people,  and  that 
the  whole  nation  perish  not.  And  this  he  spoke 
not  »jf  himself:  but  being  the  high  priest  that  year, 
he  prophesied  that  Jesus  should  die  for  the  nation  j 
and  not  only  for  the  nation,  but  to  gather  in  one 
the  children  of  God,  that  were  dispersed.  From 
that  day  therefore  they  devised  to  put  him  to  death. 
Wherefore  Jesus  walked  no  more  openly  among  the 
Jews,  but  he  went  unto  a  country  near  the  desart, 
unto  a  city  that  is  called  Ephrem,  and  there  he  abode 
with  his  disciples, 

OFFERT.  P*.  cxviii.— Blessed  art  thou,  O  Lord, 
teach  me  thy  law ;  and  deliver  me  not  up  to  the 
proud  ones  who  calumniate  me  :  and  I  will  give  au 
answer  to  those  who  reproach  me. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  merciful  God,  that  we  may 
always  worthily  serve  at  thy  altar,  and  obiaili  sal- 
vation by  constantly  partaking  of  what  is  offered 
thereon.  7Ahro'. 

COMM.  Deliver  me  not  up,  O  Lord,  to  the  will 
of  my  pursuers :  for  unjust  witnesses  have  risen  up 
against  me,  and  iniquity  hath  belied  itstlf. 

P.  COMM.  Sumpti  sacrtficii. — May  the  sacrifice, 
O  Lord,  v\e  have  partaken  of,  always  protect  us,  and 
repel  from  us  all  that  is  hurtful.  Thro*. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Concede. — Grant,  we  beseech  thef, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  seek  the  honour  of 
thy  proU'ction,  may  be  delivered  from  all  evil,  and 
M.TVC  thee  with  a  secure  mind.  Thro'. 

ON  FRIDAY  IN  PASSION  WEEK. 

The  SEVEN  DOLOURS  of  the  E.  V.  MARY. 

INTUOIT.     John  xix.  —There  stood  by  the  cross 

of  Jesus,  his  mother,  and  his  mother's  sister,  Mary 

Vie  v»fifc  of  Cleophas,  and  Salome,  and  Mary  Mag« 


PASSION- WEEK.  225 

flalen.     V.  Jesus  said:  Woman,  behold  thy  son; 

and  to  his  disciple  i  Behold  thy  mother.  V.  Glory. 

Gloria  in  excel  sis  *'s  said  in  this  Mass. 

COLLECT.  Dtus,  in  cujur.  -  O  God,  in  whose 
passion,  according  to  Simeon's  prophecy,  the  sword 
of  grief  pierced  the  sweet  soul  of  glorious  Mary,  the 
Virgin-mother;  grant  in  thy  mercy,  that  we,  who 
with  honour  commemorate  her  sorrows  and  suffer- 
ings, may  be  helped  by  the  glorious  merits  and 
prayers  of  all  the  saints  that  faithfully  stood  by  thy 
cross,  so  as  to  partake  of  the  happy  fruits  of  thy  pas- 
sion. Who  liveth. 
Then  is  made  a  Commem.  of  Friday  by  £/<£  Collect, 

Cordibits,  as  p.  "33.      As  likewise  by  the  Secret  and 

Postcommunion  in  their  proper  places 

LESSON.  Judith,  xiii.  22.  25.— The  Lord  hath 
blessed  thee  by  his  power,  because  by  thee  he  hath 
brought  our  enemies  to  nought.  Blessed  art  thou, 
O  daughter,  by  the  Lord  the  most  high  God  above 
ali  women  upon  the  earth.  Blessed  be  the  Lord 
who  made  heaven  and  earth.  Because  h;j  hath  so 
magnified  thy  name  this  day,  that  thy  praise  shall 
not  depart  out  of  the  mouth  of  men,  who  shall  be 
mindful  of  the  power  of  the  Lord  for  ever,  for  that 
thou  hast  not  spared  thy  life,  by  reason  of  the  dis- 
tress and  tribulation  of  thy  people,  but  hast  prevent* 
ed  our  ruin  in  the  presence  of  our  God. 

GRAD.  Thou  art  overwhelmed  with  grief  and 
in  tears,  O  Virgin  Mary,  standing  by  the  cross  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  thy  Son,  thy  Redeemer. 

TRACT-  Holy  Mary,  the  Queen  of  he:ivn  and 
Lady  of  the  world,  stood  full  of  grief  by  the  c-oss  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  V  O  all  you  that  pass  by 
the  way,  aitend  and  see  if  there  beany  sorrow  like 
unto  mine. 

The  SEQUENCE,  or  PROSE 

STAB  AT  Mater  dolprosa,  juxta  crucem  Ucrymosa 
dum  pendebat  pilius 


226  FRIDAY   IN 

Cujus  animam  gementem,  contristatam  et  dolen- 
teni  pertransivit  Radius. 

O  quam  tristis  et  afflicta,  fuit  iila  benedicta  Mater 
tmigeniti  ! 

Que  maerebnt,  et  dolebat,  et  tremebat,  cum  vide- 
bat  nati  poenas  iudyti. 

^  Quis  est  homo  qui  non  fleret,  Christi  matrem  si 
videret,  in  tanto  supplicio! 

Qnis  posset  non  contristari,  piam  Matrem  contem- 
plari  dolentem  cum  Filio  ? 

Pro  peccatis  suae  gentis,  vidit  Jesum  in  tormentis 
et  nagellis  subditum  ? 

Vidit  suum  dulcecn  natum,  morientem  desolatum, 
dum  emisit  spiritual. 

Eia  Mater,  fonsamoris!  me  sentire  vim  doloris, 
fac  ut  tecum  lugiam* 

Fac   ut  ardeat  cor  meum  in  amando  Christum 
Deum,  ut  sibi  complaceam. 

Sancta  Mater  istud  agas,  crucifixi  fige  plagas  cordi 
men  valide. 

Tui  nati  vulnerati,  tarn  dignati  pro  me  pad,  pee- 
Das  mecum  divi(]e. 

Fac  me  vere  tecum  flere,  crucifixo  condolere  do- 
nee 'jgo  vixero. 

Juxta  crucem  tecum  stare,  te  libenter  sociare  in 
planet u  desidero. 

Virgo  virgmum  prseclara,  mihijam  non  sis  amara, 
fac  me  tecum  p'angere. 

Fac  ut  portem  Ch  isti  mortem,  passionis  fac  con- 
sortem,   et  p  agas  reco'ere. 

Fac  m?  plagis  vulnerari,  cruce  hac  inebriari,  ob 
amorem  filii. 

Inflammatus,  et  accensus,  per  te,  virgo,  sim  de* 
fensusj  in  die  judicii. 

Fac  me  cruce  custodiri,  morte  Christi  praemunlri, 
confoveri  gratia. 

Quando  corpus  morietur,  fac  ut  animse  donetur 
Paraclisi  gloria. 


PASSION-WEEK.  427 

John  xix.  25.  27.-.^  f//flf  rtwij; 
There  stood  by  the  cross  of  Jesus,  his  mother,  and 
his  mother's  sister,  Mary  of  Cleophas,  alid  Mary 
Magdalen.  When  J.-sus  therefore  saw  his  mother, 
and  the  disciple  standing,  whom  he  loved,  lie  saith 
to  his  mother :  Woman,  behold  thy  son  ;  after  that, 
he  saith  to  the  disciple:  Behold  thy  mother.  And 
from  that  hour  the  disciple  tsok  her  to  his  own, 

OFFERT.  Remember,  O  Virgin-mother  of  God, 
whilst  thou  standest  in  the  presence  of  the  Lord,  to 
speak  in  our  favour,  that  thou  mayest  turn  away'his 
wrath  from  us. 

SECRET.  \Ve  offer  thee,  O  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
our  prayers  and  sacrifices,  humbly  entreating  thee, 
that  \ve,  who,  in  our  prayers  of  thin  day,  commemo- 
rate the  transfixion  of  the  most  sweet  soul  of  blessed 
Mary  thy  mother,  may  receive  our  reward  with  her 
and  her  blessed  companions  that  stood  under  thy 
cross,  this  holy  assembly  bring  multiplied,  through 
the  merits  of  thy  death.  Who  livest. 

PREFACE.  In  the  transfixion,  Ordinary,  p.  xxxii. 

COMM.  Happy  are  the  senses  of  the  blessed 
Virgin  Mary,  who,  without  dying,  merited  the  crown 
of  martyrdom  tinder  the  cross  of  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Sarrificia.— Grant,  O  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  that  the  sacrifice  we  have  partaken  of,  while 
with  devotion  we  celebrate  the  transfixion  of  thy 
blessed  Virgin-mother,  may,  thro'  thy  mercy,  obtain 
for  us  the  effect  of  every  salutary  good.  Who  livest. 

SATURDAY. 
T^elntroit,  Offertory,  and  Communion,  as  onTn. 

day,  p.  222,  &-c. 

COLLECT.  Proficiat.— May  the  people  conse- 
crated to  thy  service,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  im. 
prove  in  the  affections  of  piety  ;  that,  instructed  by 
these  holy  mysteries,  they  may  be  so  much  the  more 


ii8  SATURDAY  IK 

enriched  with  thy  heavenly  gifts,  as  they  become 
more  acceptable  to  thy  divine  majesty.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Jer.  xviii.  1 8  23,—  In  those  day*  :  the 
wicked  Jews  *M  to  one  another*  Come,  and  let  us 
invent  devices  against  Jeremias:  for  the  law  shall 
not  perish  from  the  priest,  nor  counsel  from  the  wise, 
nor  the  word  from  the  prophet;  come,  and  let  us 
strike  him  with  the  tongue,  and  let  us  give  no  heed 
to  all  his  words  Give  heed  to  me,  O  Lord,  and 
hear  the  voice  of  my  adversaries.  Shall  evil  be  ren- 
dered for  good,  because  they  have  digged  a  pit  for 
my  soul  ?  Remember  that  I  have  stood  in  thy  sight, 
to  speak  good  for  thf  m,  and  to  turn  away  thy  indig- 
nation from  them.  Therefore  deliver  up  their  chil- 
dren to  famine,  and  bring  them  into  the  hands  of 
the  sword:  let  their  wives  be  bereaved  of  children, 
and  widows  ;  and  let  the  husbands  be  slain  by  death: 
let  their  young  men  be  stabbed  with  the  sword  in 
battle,  Let  a  cry  be  heard  out  of  their  houses; 
for  thou  shalt  bring  the  robber  upon  them  suddenly: 
because  they  have  digged  a  pit  to  take  me,  and  have 
hid  snares  for  my  feet.  But  thou,  O  Lord,  knowest 
all  their  counsel  against  me  unto  death:  forgive  not 
their  iniquity,  and  let  not  their  sin  be  blotted  out 
from  thy  sight:  let  them  be' overthrown  before  tliy 
eyes,  in  the  time  of  thy  wrath  do  thou  destroy  them, 
O  Lord  our  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiv. — My  enemies  spoke  peace- 
ably  to  me ;  but  in  their  anger  they  were  trouble- 
some to  me.  V.  Thou  hast  seen  it,  O  Lord,  be  not 
silent;  abandon  me  not. 

(00$PCU  John  xii.  io.  36. — At  that  time: 
The  chief  priests  thought  to  kill  Lazarus  also;  be- 
cause many  of  the  Jews  by  reason  of  him  went  away, 
•and  believed  in  Jesus.  And  on  the  next  day  a  great 
multitude,  that  was  come  to  the  festival  day,  when 
ih<>v  had  heard  that  Jesus  was  coming  to  Jerusalem, 
took  branches  of  palm  trees,  and  went  forth  to  mtet 


PASSION  WEEtf.  220 

him,  and  cried  :  Ilosanna,  blessed  is  he  that  cometh 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  the  King  of  Israel.  And 
•>und  a  young  ass,  and  sat  upon  it,  as  it  is 
written  :  "  Fear  ndt,  daughter  of  Sion  :  behold,  thy 
King  cometh  sitting  on  an  ass's  colt."  These  things 
his  disciples  did  not  know  at  the  first :  but  when 
Jesus  was  glorified,  they  then  remembered  that 
these  things  were  written  of  him  ;  and  that  they  had 
done  these  things  to  him.  The  multitude  therefore 
gave  testimony,  which  was  with  him,  when  he  called 
Lazarus  out  of  the  grave,  and  raised  him  from  the 
dead.  For  which  reason  also  the  people  came  to 
meet  him  :  because  they  heard  he  had  done  this 
miracle.  The  Pharisees  therefore  said  among  them- 
selves :  Do  you  see  that  we  prevail  nothing?  behold, 
the  whole  world  is  gone  after  him.  Now  there 
were  certain  Gentiles  among:  them  that  came  up  to 
adore  ovi  the  festival  day.  These  therefore  came  to 
Philip,  who  was  of  Bethsaida  of  Galilee,  and  de- 
sired him,  saying:  Sir,  we  would  see  Jesus.  Philip 
cometh,  and  telleth  Andrew.  Again  Andrew  and 
Philip  told  Jesus.  But  Jesus  answered  them,  saying  : 
The  hour  is  come  that  the  Son  of  Man  shall  he 
glorified.  Amen,  amen,  I  say  to  you,  unless  the 
grain  of  wheat  fall  into  the  ground  and  die,  itself  re. 
maineth  aloue.  But  if  it  die,  it  bringeth  forth  much, 
fruit.  Hethatloveth  his  life  shall  lose  it;  and  he 
that  hateth  his  life  in  this  world,  keepeth  it  unto 
life  eternal.  If  aay  man  minister  to  me,  let  him 
follow  me:  and  where  I  am,  there  also  shall  my 
minister  be.  If  any  man  minister  tome,  him  will 
my  Father  honour.  Now  is  my  soul  troubled.  And 
what  shall  I  say  ?  Father,  save  me  from  this  hour. 
But  for  this  cause  I  came  unto  this  hour.  Father" 
glorify  thy  name.  A  voice  therefore  came  from  hea- 
ven: "I  have  both  glorified  it*  and  will  glorify  it 
again."  The  multitude  therefore  that  stood  and 
heard,  said  that  it  thundered.  Others  said:  An  a(U 


2^0  PALM-SUNDAY. 

&el  spoke  to  him.  Jesus  answered,  and  said :  This 
voice  came  not  because  of  me,  but  for  your  sakes. 
Now  is  the  judgment  of  the  world:  now  shall  the 
prince  of  this  world  be  cast  out.  And  I,  if  I  be 
lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  all  things  to  my- 
self. (Now  this  he  said  signifying  what  death  he 
should  die.)  The  multitude  answered  him:  We 
have  heard  out  of  the  law,  that  Christ  abideth  for 
ever;  and  how  sayest  thou  :  The  Son  of  Man  must 
be  lifted  up  ?  Who  is  tin's  Son  of  Man  ?  Jesus  there, 
fore  said  to  them:  Yet  a  little  while,  the  light  is 
among  you.  Walk  whilst  you  have  the  light,  that 
the  darkness  overtake  you  not :  and  he  that  walketh 
in  darkness  knoweth  not  whither  he  goeth.  Whilst 
you  have  the  light,  believe  in  the  light,  that  you 
may  be  the  children  of  light.  These  things  Jesus 
spoke,  and  he  went  away  and  hid  himself  from  them. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  1 1 8.— Blessed  art  thou,  O  Lotd, 
teach  me  thy  justifications:  deliver  me  not  to  proud 
calumniators :  and  1  shall  answer  those  who  reproach 
me. 

SECRET.  Mercifully,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
deliver  us  from  ail  sins  and  dangers,  since  thou,  al- 
lowest  us  to  partake  of  these  great  mysteries.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Divini. — Being  filled  with  the  divine 
gift,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  we  may 
ever  live  by  the  participation  thereof.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Tucatur.  —  May  thy  right-hand,  O 
Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  prot<  ct  thy  people  making 
supplication  to  thee,  und  purifying  them  from  their 
sins,  make  them  wise,  that  they  may  make  such  use 
of  the  comforts  of  this  present  life,  as- to  arrive  a* 
that  which  is  eternal.  Thro'. 

PALM-SUNDAY 

IS  so  called  from  the  ceremory  of  blessing  branches  o£ 
Palms,  Olives,  or  some  other  tree,   to    be  distributed 
among  the  faithful  to  carry  in  processiou ;  in  remembrance 


PALM-SUNDAY.  23! 

of  what  the  Jewish  people  did,  when  Jesus  Christ,  six 
days  before  his  passion,  made  his  triumphant  entry  into 
Jerusalem  riding  on  an  ass's  colt,  as  had  been  foretold  by 
the  prophet,  and  was  received  with  the  joyful  acclama- 
tions or  the  multitude,  as  well  as  those  of  his  disciples. 

Let  us,  therefore,  assist  at  the  ceremony  of  this  day  with 
recollection  and  piety  :  and  whilst  we  bear  the  Palms  in 
our  hands,  let  us  adore  him,  who  conquered  hell  by  his 
death,  and  endeavour  to  partake  of  his  triumph,  by  over- 
coming sin.  and  every  inclination  contrary  to  the  spirit  of 
God. 
After  sprinkling  the  Holy  Water,  as  usual  on  other 

Sundays,  the  Office  begins  thus : 
ANT.    Hosanna  to  the  Son  of  David:  blessed  is 
he  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord.     O  King 
of  Israel :  Hosanna  in  the  highest. 

The  Lord  be  with  you.     JR.  And  with  thy  spirit. 

Let  as  pray. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  quern.— O  God,  whom  to  love 
is  true  righteousness,  multiply  in  our  hearts  the  gifts 
of  thy  holy  grace:  and  since,  by  the  death  of  thy 
only  Son,  thou  hast  made  us  to  hope  for  those 
things  which  we  believe;  grant  that  by  his  resurrec- 
tion, we  may  arrive  at  the  happy  end  of  our  journey. 
Who  liveth. 

LESSON.  Exod.  xv.  27.  and\v\.  i.  ^.— In  those 
days  ;  The  children  of  Israel  came  to  Llim,  where 
there  were  twelve  fountains  of  water,  and  seventy 
palm-trees:  and  they  encamped  by  the  waters.-— 
Chap.  xvi.  And  they  set  forward  from  Elim  ;  and 
all  the  multitude  of  the  children  of  Israel  came  into 
the  desart  of  Sin,  which  is  between  Elim  and  Sinai, 
the  fifteenth  day  of  the  second  month  a/ter  they 
came  out  of  the  land  ot  Egypt.  And  all  the  congre- 
gation of  the  children  of  Israel  murmured  against 
Moses  and  Aaron  in  the  wilderness.  And  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel  said  to  them:  Would  to  God  we  had 
died  by  the  hand  ot  the  Lord  in  the  land  of  Egypt, 
when  we  sat  over  the  flesh  pots,  and  ate  bread  to 
U  2 


23*  PALM-SUNDAY. 

*he  full :  Why  have  you  brought  us  into  this  desart, 
that  you  might  destroy  all  the  multitude  with  fa- 
mine ?  And  the  Lord  said  to  Moses:  Behold  I 
will  rain  bread  from  heaven  for  you  :  let  the  people 
go  forth,  and  gather  what  is  sufficient  for  every  day, 
that  I  may  prove  them  whether  they  will  walk  in 
my  law,  or  np.  But  the  sixth  day  let  them  provide 
for  to  bring  in,  and  let  it  be  double  to  that  they 
were  wont  to  gather  every  day.  And  Moses  and 
Aaron  said  to  the  children  of  Israel :  in  the  evening 
you  shall  know  that  the  Lord  hath  brought  you  forth 
out  of  the  land  of  Egypt :  and  in  the  morning  you 
shall  see  the  glory  of  the  Lord. 

Instead  of  the  Gradual  is  sung  either, 

R.  The  chief  priests  therefore  and  the  Pharisees 
gathered  a  council  and  said:  What  are  we  doing, 
for  this  man  performeth  many  wonders  ?  If  we  let 
him  go  on  thus,  all  will  believe  in  him:  *  And  the 
Romans  will  come  and  destroy  both  our  country 
and  us.  V.  But  one  of  them,  named  Gaiphas,  being 
the  high  priest  of  that  year,  said  to  them:  It  is  for 
your  interest  that  one  man  should  die  for  the  people, 
and  not  the  whole  nation  perish.  Therefore  from 
that  day  they  devised  to  kill  him,  saying:  *  And  the 
Romans,  Sec.  to  V. 

Or  the  following,  Matt.  xxvi. 

R.  Jesus  prayed  unto  his  Father  on  mount  Olivet: 
O  Father,  if  it  be  possible  let  this  cup  pass  from  me. 
The  spirit  indeed  is  ready,  but  the  flesh  is  weak. 
Thy  will  be  done.  V.  Watch  and  pray,  that  you 
enter  not  into  temptation.  The  spirit,  &c.  to  V. 

CBOjSptfU  Matt.  xxi.  1.9,- — At  that  time: 
Jesus  drawing  near  to  Jerusalem;  and  being  come 
to  Bethphage,  at  mount  Olivet,  he  sent  two  of  his 
disciples,  and  said  to  them  :  Go  ye  into  the  village 
that  is  Over  against  you,  and  immediately  you  shall 
find  an  ass  tied  and  a  colt  with  her:  loose  (heip 
and  brir.g  than  to  me;  <md  if  any  man  shall  say  any 


JALM-SUNDAY.  233 

thing  to  you,  say  ye,  that  the  Lord  hath  need  of 
them  :  and  forthwith  he  will  let  them  go.  Now  all 
this  was  done  that  the  word  might  be  fulfilled  which 
was  spoken  by  the  prophet,  saying:  "Tell  ye  the 
daughter  of  Sion :  Behold,  thy  king  cometh  to  thee, 
meek,  and  sitting  upon  an  ass  and  a  colt  the  foal  of 
her  that  is  used  to  the  yoke."  And  the  disciples 
going,  did  as  Jesus  commanded  them.  And  they 
brought  the  ass  and  the  colt:  and  laid  their  gar- 
ments upon  them,  and  made  him  sit  thereon.  And 
a  very  great  multitude  spread  their  garments  in  the 
way:  and  others  cut  down  boughs  from  the  trees, 
and  strewed  them  in  the  way :  and  the  multitudes 
that  went  before  and  followed,  cried,  saying : 
"  Hosanna  to  the  Son  of  David;  Blessed  is  he  that 
cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord." 

THE  BLESSING  OF  THE  PALMS. 
The  Lord  be  with  you.     R.  And  wifh  thy  spirit. 

Let  us  pray.     Augefidcw. 

Increase,  O  God,  the  faith  of  them  that  hope  in 
thee,  and  mercifully  hear  the  prayers  of  thy  sup. 
pliants:  let  thy  manifold  mercy  come  upon  us,  and 
Jet  these  branches  of  palm  trees,  or  olive  trees,  be 
blessed  :  and  as  in  a  figure  of  the  Church  thou  didst 
multiply  Noah  going  out  of  the  ark,  and  Moses  go- 
ing out  of  Egypt  with  the  children  of  Israel ;  so  let 
us,  carrying  palms  and  branches  of  olive  trees,  go 
and  meet  Christ  with  good  works,  and  enter  thro* 
him  into  eternal  joys.  Who,  &c.  -R.  Amen. 

K.  May  the  Lord  be  with  you.  R.  And  with  thy 
spirit.  r.  Raise  up  your  hearts  on  high.  R.  We 
have  raised  them  up  to  the  Lord.  V.  Let  us  give 
thanks  to  the  Lord  our  God,  R.  It  is  meet  and  j  i>t. 
U  is  truly  meet  and  just,  right  and  available  to 
salvation,  always  and  in  all  places  to  give  thee  thanks, 
O  holy  Lord,  Almighty  Father,  eternal  God :  who 
art  glorious  in  the  assembly  of  thy  saints.  For  thy 
creatures  serve  thee,  because  they  acknowledge  thee 


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for  their  only  Creator  and  Cod.  And  the  whole 
creation  praiseth  thee,  and  thy  saints  bless  thee:  be- 
cause they  confess  with  freedom,  before  the  kings 
and  powers  of  this  world,  the  great  name  of  thy 
only  begotten  Son.  Before  whom  the  angels  and 
archangels,  the  thrones  and  dominations  stand, 
ani  with  all  the  troops  of  the  heavenly  host,  sing  a 
hymn  to  thy  glory,  saying  without  ceasing  ; 

Holy,  holy,  holy,  is  the  Lord  the  God  of  armies. 
The  heavens  and  the  earth  are  full  of  thy  glory. 
Hosanna  in  the  highest.      Blessed  is  he  that  cometh 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  Hosanna  in  the  highest. 
The  Lord  be  with  you.      R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 
Let  us  pray.    Petimus. 

We  beseech  thee,  O  holy  Lord,  Almighty  Father, 
Eternal  God,  that  thou  wouldst  be  pleased  to  »J*  bless 
and  ^sanctify  this  creature  of  the  olive  tree,  which 
thou  madest  to  shoot  out  of"  the  substance  of  the 
wood,  and  which  the  dove  returning  to  the  ark 
brought  in  its  bill  :  that  whoever  receiveth  it,  may 
find  protection  of  soul  and  body:  and  that  it  may 
prove,  O  Lord,  a  saving  remedy,  and  a  sacred  sign 
of  thy  grace.  Thro*.  JR.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray.     Deus,  qui  dispersa. 

O  God,  who  gatherest  what  is  dispersed,  and 
prtservest  what  is  gathered;  who  didst  bless  the  peo- 
ple, that  carried  boughs  to  meet  Jesus ;  bless  .*J«  also 
these  branches  of  the  palm-tree  and  olive-tree,  which 
thy  servants  take  with  faith  in  honour  of  thy  name  : 
that  into  whatever  place  they  may  be  carried,  the 
inhabitants  of  that  place  may  obtain  thy  blessing ; 
aj.'l  thy  right  hand  preserve  from  all  adversity,  and 
•protect  those  that  have  been  redeemed  by  our  Load 
Jesus  Christ  thy  Son.  Who  liveth,  JR.  Amen. 
Let  us  pray.  ]}eus,  quiwiirQ. 

O  God,  who  by  the  wonderful  order  of  thy  pro- 
vidence would  even  in  insensible  things  shew  us  the 
manner  of  pur  salvation  j  grant,  we  beseech  thee, 


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that  the  devout  hearts  of  thy  faithful  may  understand 
to  their  benefit  the  mystical  meaning  of  that  cere- 
mony,  when  the  multitude,  by  direction  from  hea- 
ven, going  this  day  to  meet  our  Redeemer,  strewed 
undeKiis  feet  palms  and  olive-branches.  The  palms 
represent  his  triumph  over  the  prince  of  death  ;  and 
the  olive-branches  proclaim,  in  some  manner,  the 
coming  of  a  spiritual  unction.  For  that  pious  muU 
titude  then  knew,  what  was  by  them  signified,  that 
our  Redeemer  compassionating  the  misery  of  man- 
kind, was  to  fight  for  the  life  of  the  whole  world 
with  the  prince  of  death  ;  and  to  triumph  over  him 
by  his  own  death.  And  therefore  in  that  action 
they  made  use  of  such  things,  as  might  declare  both 
the  triumph  of  his  victory,  and  the  riches  of  his 
mercy.  We  also  with  a  firm  faith,  retaining  both 
the  ceremony  and  its  signification,  numbly  beseech 
thee,  O  holy  Lord,  Almighty  Father,  Eternal  Godt 
through  the  same  Lord  Jesus  Christ;  that  we,  whom 
thou  hast  made  his  members,  gaining  by  him,  and 
in  him,  a  victory  over  the  empire  of  death,  may  de- 
serve to  be  partakers  of  his  glorious  resurrection. 
Who  liveth.  R.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray.     Deus,  gui  per  olive. 

O  God,  who  by  an  olive-branch  didst  command 
the  dove  to  proclaim  peace  to  the  world:  sanctity, 
we  beseech  thee,  by  thy  heav^nly^benediction,  these 
branches  of  olives  and  other  trees;  that  they  may  be 
serviceable  to  all  thy  people  unto  salvation.  Thro', 
JR.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray.     Bc?iedic. 

Bless,  »J«O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  these  "branches 
of  the  palm-tree,  or  olive,  tree;  and  grant  that 
thy  people  this  day  act  corporally  for  thy  honour, 
they  may  perform    the    same   spiritually  with  the 
greatest  devotion,  by  gaining  a  victory   over  their 
enemy,    and  ardently  loving  mercy.     Thro',     ft 
A  Tie  H. 


«36  PALM  SUNDAY. 

Here  tlit  Priest  sprinkles  the  Palms  with  Holy  Water, 
saying,  Sprinkle,   &c.  as  in  p.  xiii.    and  having 
fumed  them  thrice,  with  incense,  he  says  : 
The  Lord  be  with  you.  R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 

Let  us  pray.     Deus,  qui  Ydium. 
O  God,  who,  for  our  salvation,  didst  send  into  this 
world  thy  Son  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord,  that  he  might 
humble  himself  to  our  Condition,  and  call  us  back 
to  thee.     For  whom  also,  as  he  was  coming  to  Jeru- 
salem to  fulfil  the  scriptures,  a  multitude  of  faithful 
people  with  a  zealous  devotion  spread  their  garments 
together  with  palm-branches  in  the  way  :  grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  we  may  prepare  him  the  way  of 
faith,  out  of  which  the  stone  of  offence  and  the  rock 
of  scandal  being  removed,  our  actions  may  flourish 
with  branches  of  righteousness,  so  that  we  may  be 
worthy  to  follow  his  steps.  Who  liveth,  R.  Ameiu 
The  Palms,  being  bkssed,  are  distributed  to  the  people 
kneeling  and  kissing   them  as  well  as  tht  Priest's 
hand.     During  the  distribution   the  following  An- 
thems  are  repeated  till  the  whole  are  distributed  : 
ANT.The  Hebrew  children  carrying  olive- branches 
met  the  Lord,  crying  out,    and  saying:   Hosanna  in 
the  highest. 

ANT.  The  Hebrew  children  spread  their  garments 
in  the  way,  and  cried  out,  saying:  Hosanna  to  the 
Son  of  David  :    blessed  is  he  lhat  cometh  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord, 
The  Lord  he  with  you.    E.  And  with  thy  spirit. 

Let  fls  pray.     Omnipotent. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who  wouldst  have 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  ride  on  the  colt  of  an  ass,  and 
didst  inspire  the  crowds  of  people  to  spread  their 
garments,  and  branches  of  trees  in  the  way,  and  to 
siag  Hosauna  to  his  praise;  grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
that  we  may  imitate  their  innocence,  and  deserve  to 
partake  of  their  merits.  Thro'.  R.  Amen. 


PALM-SUSDAY.  237 

Htre  the  PROCESSION  begins  in  (he  usual  form%  dur- 
ing u,kich9  some  of  the  Jo  Mowing  Anthems  arc  sung. 
The  Priest  or  Deacon  giving  notice  thereof  by 
saying : 

Let  us  set  out  in  peace.  H.  In  the  name  of 
Christ.  Amen. 

ANTHEMS  during  the  PROCESSION. 
ANT.  Matt.  xxi.  When  the  Lord  drew  nigh  to 
Jerusalem,  he  sent  two  of  his  disciples,  saying:  Go 
to  the  village  that  is  over  against  you  ;  and  you  will 
find  the  colt  of  an  ass  tied,  upon  which  no  man  hath 
sat  j  loose  it,  and  bring  it  to  me.  if  any  one  ask 
you  any  questions,  say  :  The  Lord  wanteth  it. 
They  untied  and  brought  it  to  Jesus,  and  laid  their 
garments  upon  it ;  and  he  seated  himself  on  it. 
Others  spread  their  garments  in  the  way;  others  cut 
branches  from  the  trees  j  and  those  who  followed, 
cried  out  Hosanna,  blessed  is  he  that  cometh  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord;  and  blessed  be  the  reign  of  our 
father  David;  Hosanna  in  the  highest.  O  Son  of 
David  have  mercy  on  us- 

ANT.  When  the  people  heard,  that  Jesus  was 
coming  to  Jerusalem,  they  took  palm-branches,  and 
went  out  to  meet  him:  and  the  children  cried  out, 
saying:  This  is  he,  who  is  come  for  the  salvation 
of  the  people.  He  is  our  salvation,  and  the  redemp- 
tion of  Israel.  How  great  is  he,  whom  the  thrones 
and  dominations  go  out  to  meet !  Fear  not,  O 
daughter  of  Sion  :  behold  thy  king  cometh  to  thee 
sitting  on  an  ass's  colt,  as  it  is  written.  Hail,  O 
King,  the  Creator  of  me  world,  who  art  come  to 
redeem  us. 

ANT.  Six  days  before  the  solemnity  of  the  Pass- 
over,  when  the  Lord  was  coming  into  the  city  of 
Jerusalem,  the  children  met  him,  and  carried  palm- 
branches  in  their  hands  j  and  they  cried  out  with  a 
loud  voice,  saying;  Hosanna  in  the  highest:  blessed 


23 $  PALM  SUNDAY. 

art  thou  who  art   come   in   the  multitude  of  thy 
mercy :  Hosanna  in  the  highest. 

ANT.  The  multitudegoeth  oat  to  meet  their  Re- 
deemer with  flowers  and  palms,  and  payeth  the  ho- 
mage due  to  a  triumphant  conqueror:  the  Gentiles 
proclaim  the  Son  of  God  :  and  their  voices  rend  the 
skies  in  the  praise  of  Christ :  Hosanna  in  the  highest. 
ANT.  Let  us  faithfully  join  with  the  angels  and 
children,  singing  to  the  Conqueror  of  death :  Ho- 
sanna in  the  highest. 

ANT.  A  greift  multitude  that  was  met  together  at 
the  festival,  cried  out  to  the  Lord :  Blessed  is  he  that 
cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord :  Hosanna  in  the 
highest. 

At  the  return  of  the  Procession,   two  or  four  chanters 
go  into  the  church)  and  shutting  the  door9with  their 
faces   towards   the  Procession,  sing   the  two  first 
vtrses  of  thefollozoing  Hymn,*  To  thee,  O  Christ, 
&c.  which  are  repeated  by  the  Priest  and  the  others 
without  the  church.       Then  they  zvho  are  within, 
sing  the  following  verses  ;  to  which  those  that  arc 
without,  after  every  two  verses,  answer, 
*r~iT*o  thee,  O  Christ,  be  glory,  praises  loud: 
JL    To  thee,  Hosanna,  cried  the  Jewish  crowd. 
R>  To  thee* 

We  Israel's  monarch,  David's  Son  proclaim : 
Thou  com'st,  blest  King,  in  God's  most  holy  name, 

R.  To  thee. 

Angels  and  m  ^n,  in  one  harmonious  choir, 
To  sing  thy  everlasting  praise  conspire. 

R.  To  thee. 

Thee  Israel's  children  met  with  conqufring  palms; 
To  thee  our  vows  we  pay  in  loudest  psalms. 

R.  To  thee. 

For  thee  on  earth  with  boughs  they  strew1  d  the  ways: 
To  thee  in  heaven  we  sing  melodious  praise, 
K.  To  thee. 


PALM  SUNDAY.  2j$ 

Accept  tbis  tribute,  which  to  thee  we  bring, 
As  thou  didst  theirs,  O  good  and  gracious  King. 
R.  To  thee. 

Here  the  Subdeacon  knocks  at  the  door  with  the,  font 
of  the  cross ;  which  being  opened,  the  Procession 
enters  the  Church  kinging.  This  ceremony  repre- 
sents our  pilgrimage  in  this  mortal  life,  in  which 
uv  unite  in  the  praises  of  God  with  the  blessed  in 
heaven;  and  live  in  hopes  that  the  gates  t.(-- 
will  be  opened  to  us  thro'  the  merits  of  the  croas  of 
Christ. 

R.  As  our  Lord  entered  the  holy  city,  the  He- 
brew children  declaring  the  resurrection  of  life* 
*  With  palm-branches  cried  out:  Hosanna  in  the 
highest.  F.  When  the  people  heard,  that  Jesus  was 
coming  to  Jerusalem,  they  went  out  to  meet  him, 
and  •With  palm- branches,  &c.  as  above,  to  V. 

At  Mass  all  hold  the  Palms  in  their  ham  in  daring  t/<t 
reading  or  singing  of  the  Pas>'.< 
1NTROIT.      Ps.  xxi. 

LORD,  keep  not  thy  J~\0mnu,  nc  longc  fa- 
help  far  from  me  ;  ~~^  cuts  auxtliam  lit  am  a 
look  to  my  defence;  we,  ad  dtfensionem  mettrii 
save  me  from  the  lion's  aspire:  tibtra  me  de  on 
Miuuth,  and  rescue  me  lconis%  ct  a  cornibua  uni- 
in  my  distress,  from  the  cornlum  humilitatun  mt* 
horns  of  unicorns.  Pa.  am. 
O  God,  my  God,  look  Ps.  Deus,  Deu* 
upon  me:  why  hast  thou  respice  in  me:  quart  //<•* 
forsaken  me  ?  They  are  dereliqaisti  ?  Longe  a 
my  sins  that  keep  salva-  salute  mea  verba  delicts 
tion  far  from  me.  Lord  rum  ine^ntm.  Dwuine, 
keep  not,  &rc.  ne  longe,  Ar. 

LLECT.  O/w/2/y  o/'tv.'S.-.-O  almightv  and  rter- 
aal  God,  who  would»t  have  our  Saviour  become 
in  in,  and  suffer  on  a  cross,  to  give  mankind  an  ex- 
ample  ut  humility  :  mercifully  grant,  that  \ve  airu 


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improve  by  the  example  ofhis  patience,  and 
of  his  resurrection.     Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Philip.  if.  e.  it.  ...  Brethren  :  Let 
this  mind  be  in  yon,  which  was  also  in  Christ  Jesus ; 
who  being  in  the  form  of  God?  thought  it  not  rob- 
bery, to  be  equal  with  God :  but  debased  himself, 
taking  the  form  of  a  servant,  being  made  in  the  like- 
ness of  a  servant,  and  in  habit  found  as  a  man.  He 
humbled  himself,  becoming  obedient  unto  death  ; 
even  to  the  death  of  the  cross.  For  which  cause  God 
also  hath  exalted  him,  and  hath  given  him  a  name 
which  is  above  all  names:  that  in  the  name  of  Jesus 
every  knee  shall  bow,  of  those  that  are  in  heaven, 
on  earth,  and  under  the  earth.  And  that  every 
tongue  should  confess  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is 
in  the  glory  o<the  Father. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxii. — Thou  hast  held  me  by  my 
right  hand,  and  conducted  me  according  to  thy 
good  will,  and  raised  me  up  in  glory.  \\  How  good 
is  the  God  of  Israel  to  those  that  are  upright  of 
heart!  But  my  feet  were  almost  gone,  my  steps  were 
ready  to  slip :  because  I  looked  on  sinners  with  a 
jealous  eye,  seeing  the  wricked  in  peace. 

TRACT.  Ps.  xxi. — Deus,  Dens  meus,  respice  in 
me  quart:  we  derdiquisti  ?  O  God,  my  God,  look 
down  upon  me:  why  hast  thou  forsaken  me?  V. 
They  are  my  sins  that  keep  salvation  from  me.  V. 
My  God  f  will  cry  out  to  thee  in  the  day,  and  thou 
wilt  not  hear  me :  I  will  cry  to  thee  in  the  night, 
and  it  will  not  be  a  foliy  in  me.  V.  But  thou  dvveU 
lest  in  the  sanctuary,  O  thou  the  praise  of  Israel.  V* 
Our  father  hoped  in  thee:  they  hoped  in  thee,  and 
thou  didst  deliver  them.  V.  They  cried  out  to  thee, 
and  were  saved:  they  hoped  in  thee,  and  were  not 
put  to  shame.  V.  But  1  am  a  worm,  and  not  a  rr-an: 
the  reproach  of  men,  and  the  outcast  of  the  people. 
V.  All  that  saw  me,  scorned  me:  they  talked  of 
me,  and  shook  their  heads.  V.  He  put  his  trust  ia 


FALM-SUNDAY*  241 

the  Lord,  said  they  :  let  him  deliver  him;  let  him. 
save  him,  because  he  loveth  him.  F.  They  consi- 
dered me,  and  viewed  me  attentively  :  they  divided 
my  garments  amongst  them,  and  cast  lots  for  my 
vest.  F.  Deliver  me  from  the  lion's  month  :  rescue 
me  in  my  distress  from  the  horns  of  the  unicorns. 
F.  Yon  that  fear  the  Lord,  praise  him  ;  O  all  you 
of  the  race  of  Jacob  magnify  him.  F.  A  people 
that  is  to  come,  'shall  be  declared  the  Lord's  :  and 
the  heavens  shall  publish  his  justice.  F.  To  a 
people,  to  be  born,  whom  the  Lord  hath  made. 

Tht  PASSION  of  our  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST, 
according  to  Matt.  xxvi.  and  xxvii. 

AT  that  time;  Jfsus  said  to  his  disciples:  You 
•"  know  that  after  two  days  shall  be  the  pasch, 
and  the  Son  of  Man  shall  be  delivered  up  to  be  cru- 
cified. Then  were  gathered  together  the  chief 
priests  and  ancients  of  the  people  into  the  court  of 
the  high  priest,  who  was  called  Caiphas:  and  they 
consulted  together,  that  by  subtilty  they  might  ap- 
prehend Jesus,  and  put  him  to  death.  But  they 
said :  Not  on  the  festival  day,  lest  perhaps  there 
should  be  a  tumult  amongst  the  people.  And  when 
Jesus  was  iu  Bethania,  in  the  house  of  Simon  the 
leper,  there  came  to  him  a  woman  having  an 
alabaster-box  of  precious  ointment,  and  poured  it 
on  his  head  as  he  was  at  table,  And  the  disciples 
seeing  it,  had  indignation,  saying:  To  what  pur- 
pose is  this  waste?  For  this  might  have  been  sold  for 
much,  and  given  to  the  poor.  And  Jesus  knowing 
it,  said  to  them  :  Why  do  you  trouble  this  woman  ? 
for  she  has  wrought  a  good  work  upon  me.  For  the 
poor  you  have  always  with  you,  but  me  you  have  not 
alwavs.  For  she,  in  pouring  this  ointment  upon 
my  body,  hath  done  it  for  my  burial.  Amen,  1  say 
to  you,  wheresoever  this  gospel  shall  be  preached  in 
the  \vhole  world,  that  a!*o  which  she  hath  done, 
shall  be  told  for  a  memory  of  her.  Then  went  one 
X 


242  PALM-SUNDAY. 

of  the  twelve,  who  was  called  Judas  I.scariot,  to  the 
chief  priests,  and  said  to  them:  What  will  you  give 
me,  and  I  will  deliver  him  unto  you  ?  But  they  ap- 
pointed him  thirty  pieces  of  silver.  And  from  thence- 
forth he  sought  an  opportunity  to  betray  him.  And 
on  the  first  day  of  the  Azymes  the  disciples  came  to 
Jesus,  saying :  Where  wift  them  that  we  prepare  for 
thee  to  eat  the  pasch?  But  Jesus  said:  Go  ye  into 
the  city  to  a  certain  man,  and  say  to  him:  The  Master 
saith  my  time  is  near  at  hand,  I  will  keep  the  pasck 
at  thy  house  with  my  disciples.  And  the  disciples 
did  as  Jesus  appointed  to  them,  and  they  prepared 
the  pasch.  Now  when  it  was  evening,  ho  sat 
down  with  his  twelve  disciples.  And  whilst  they 
were  eating,  he  said  :  Amen,  I  say  to  you,  that  one 
of  you  is  about  to  betray  me.  And  they  being  very 
much  troubled,  began  every  one  to  say:  hit  \t 
Lord  ?  But  he  answering  said  ;  He  that  dippeth  his 
hand  with  me  in  the  dish,  he  shall  betray  me.  The 
Son  of  man  indeed  goeth,  as  it  is  written  of  him  ; 
but  wo  to  that  man,  by  whom  the  Son  of  Man  shall 
be  betrayed.  It  were  better  for  him,  if  that  man 
had  not  been  born.  And  Judas,  that  betrayed  him, 
answering,  said  :  Is  it  f,  Rabbi  ?  He  saith  to  him  : 
Thou  hast  said  it.  And  whilst  they  were  at  supper, 
Jesus  took  bread,  and  blessed,  and  broke;  and  gave 
to  his  disciples,  and  said:  Take  ye,  and  eat:  this 
is  my  body.  And  taking  the  chalice  he  gave  thanks, 
and  gave  to  them,  saying:  Drink  ye  all  of  this.  For 
this  is  my  blood  of  the  New  Testament  which:  shall 
be  shed  for  many  for  the  remission  of  sins.  And  I  sayr 
to  you,  I  will  not  drink  from  henceforth  of  this- 
fruit  of  the  vine,  until  that  day  when  I  shall  drink  i* 
new  with  you  in  the  kingdom  of  my  Father.  And  a 
hymn  being  said,  they  went  out  into  mount  Olivet. 
Then  Jesus  said  to  them:  All  you  shall  be  scanda- 
lized in  me  this  night.  For  it  is  written:  "  [will 
strike  the  shepherd,  and  the  sheep  of  the  flock  shall 


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be  dispersed/'  But  after  1  shall  be  risen  again,  I 
\vill  %o  before  you  into  Galilee.  And  Peter  an- 
swering,  said  to  him:  Although  all  shall  be  scan- 
dalized'in  thee,  I  will  never  be  scandalized.  And 
Jesus  said  to  hi  in:  Amen,  I  say  to  thee,  that  in  this 
night,  before  the  cock  crow,  thou  wilt  deny  me 
thrice.  Peter  saith  to  him:  Yea,  though 
should  die  with  thee,  I  will  not  deny  thee.  And 
in  like  manner  said  all  the  disciples.  Then  Jesus 
came  with  them  into  a  country  place  which  is 
called  Gethsamani ;  and  he  said  to  his  disciples" :  Sit 
you  here,  till  1  go  yonder,  and  pray.  And  taking 
with  him  Peter  and  the  two  sons  of  Zcbedee,  he 
began  to  grow  sorrowful  and  to  be  sad.  Then  lie 
saith  to  them:  My  soul  is  sorrowful  even  unto 
death  ,  stay  you  here  and  watch  with  me.  And 
going  a  little  further  he  fell  upon  his  face,  praying, 
and  saying:  My  Father,  if  it  be  possible,  let  this 
chalice  pass  from  me.  Nevertheless,  not  as  I  will, 
but  as  thou  wilt.  And  he  cometh  to  his  disciples, 
and  findeth  them  ableep,  and  he  saith  to  Peter  ; 
\Vhatl  Could  you  not  watch  one  hour  with  me  r 
Watch  ye,  and  pray  that  ye  enter  not  into  tempta- 
tion. The  spirit  indeed  is  willing,  but  the  flesh  is 
weak.  Again  the  second  time  he  went,  and  pray- 
ed, saying  :  My  Father,  if  this  chalice  may  not  pas* 
away,  but  I  must  drink  it,  thy  will  be  done.  And 
he  cometh  again,  and  findeth  them  asleep  ;  for  their 
eyes  wire  heavy.  And  leaving  them,  he  went 
again  ;  and  he  prayed  the  third  time,  saying  the  self 
same  words.  Then  he  cometh  to  his  disciples,  and 
saith  to  them  :  Sleep  ye  now,  and  take  your  rest : 
behold  the  hour  is  at  hand,  and  the  Son  of  Man 
shall  be  betrayed  into  the  hands  of  sinners.  Rise, 
let  us  go:  behold  he  is  at  hand  that  will  betray  me. 
As  he  yet  spoke,  behold  Judas,  one  of  the  twelve, 
came,  and  with  him  a  great  multitude  with  swords 
and  clubs,  sent  from  the  chief  priests  and  the  and* 

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244  PALM-SUNDAY. 

ents  of  the  people.  And  he  that  betrayed  him,  gave 
them  a  sign,  saying:  Whomsoever  I  shall  kiss,  that 
is  he,  hold  him  fast.  And  forthwith  coming  to  Je- 
sus, he  said:* Hail,  Rabbi.  And  he  kissed  him. 
And  Jesus  said  to  him:  Friend,  whereto  art  thou 
come  ?  Tliea  they  came  up  and  laid  hands  on  Je- 
sus, and  held  him.  And  behold  one  of  them  that 
were  with  Jesus,  stretching  forth  his  hand,  drew  out 
his  sword  j  and  striking  the  servant  of  the  high 
priest,  cut  off  his  ear.  Then  Jesus  said  to  him  : 
Put  up  again  thy  sword  into  its  place  $  for  all  that 
take  the  sword,  shall  perish  with  the  sword.  Think- 
est  thou  that  1  cannot  ask  my  Father,  and  he  will 
give  me  presently  more  than  twelve  legions  of 
angels?  How  then  shall  the  scriptures  be  fulfilled, 
that  so  it  must  be  done  ?  In  that  saane  hour  Jesus 
said  to  the  multitude  :  You  are  come  out  as  it  were 
to  a  robber,  with  swords  and  clubs,  to  apprehend 
me.  1  sat  daily  with  you  teaching  in  the  temple, 
and  you  laid  not  hands  on  me.  Now  all  this  was 
done,  that  the  scriptures  of  the  prophets  might  be 
fulfilled,  Then  the  disciples  all  leaving  him,  fled, 
But  they  holding  Jesus,  led  him  to  Caiphas  the 
high -priest,  where  the  scribes  and  the  ancients  were 
assembled.  And  Peter  followed  him  afar  off,  even 
to  the  court  of  the  high-priest.  And  going  in,  he 
sat  with  the  servants,  that  he  might  see  the  end. 
And  the  chief  priests  and  the  whole  council  sought 
false  witness  against  Jesus,  that  they  might  put  him 
to  death ;  and  they  found  not,  whereas  many  false 
witnesses  had  come  in.  And  last  of  all  there  came 
two  false  witnesses,  and  they  said  :  This  man  said,  I 
am  able  to  destroy  the  temple  of  God,  and  afte* 
three  days  to  rebuild  it.  And  the  high-priest  rising 
up,  said  to  him:  Answerest  thou  nothing  to  the 
things  which  these  witness  against  thee  ?  But  Jesus 
held  his  peace.  And  the  h  gh  priest  said  lo  him: 
J  adjure  thee  by  the  living  God,  that  thou  tell  us  if 


&' 


PALM-SUNDAY.  24$ 

thou  be  the  Christ  the  Son  of  God.  Jesus  saith  to 
him:  Thou  hast  said  it.  Nevertheless  I  say  to  you> 
hereafter  you  shall  see  the  Son  of  Man  sitting  on, 
the  right  hand  of  the  power  of  God,  and  coming  in 
the  clouds  of  heaven.  Then  the  high- priest  rent 
his  garments,  saying:  He  hath  blasphemed,  what 
fiiriher  need  have  we  of  witnesses?  Behold,  now 
,011  have  heard  the  blasphemy;  what  think  you  f- 
3ut  they  answering,  said:  He  is  guilty  of  death* 
Then  did  they  spit  in  his  face,  and  buffet  him, 
and  others  struck  his  face  with  the  palms  of  their 
hands,  saying;  Prophesy  unto  us,  O  Christ ;  who  is 
he  that  struck  thee?  But  Peter  sat  without  in  the 
court:  and  there  came  to  him  a  servant  maid,  say- 
ing  :  Thou  also  wast  with  Jesus  the  Galilean.  But 
he  denied  before  them  a!),  saying;  1  know  not  what 
thou  savest.  And  as  he  went  out  of  the  gate,  ano- 
ther maid  saw  him,  and  she  saith  to  them  that  were 
there:  This  man  also  was  with  Jesus  of  Nazareth. 
And  again  he  denied  with  an  oath :  That  1  know 
not  the  man.  And  after  a  little  while  they  came 
that  stood  by,  and  said  to  Peter ;  Surety  thou  also 
art  one  ot  them;  for  even  thy  speech  doth  discover 
thee.  Then  he  began  to  curse  and  swear  that  he 
knew  not  the  man.  And  immediately  the  co«.k 
crew.  And  Peter  remembered  the  words  of  Jesus 
winch  he  had  said ;  Before  the  cock  crow,  thou 
wilt  deny  me  thrice.  And  going  forth,  he  wept 
bitterly.  And  when  morning  was  come,  all  the 
chief  priests  and  ancients  of  the  people  took  counsel 
against  Jesus,  that  they  might  put  him  to  death. 
And  they  brought  him  bound,  and  delivered  him  to 
Pontius  Pilate  the  governor.  Then  Judas,  who  be- 
trayed him,  seeing  that  he  was  condemned,  repent, 
ing  himself,  brought  back  the  thirty  pieces  of  silver 
to  the  chief  priests  and  ancients,  saying:  I  have 
sinned,  in  betraying  innocent  blood.  But  they 
said :  What  is  that  to  us  ?  look  ihou  to  it.  Aud 


746  PALM. SUNDAY. 

casting  down  the  pieces  of  silver  in  the  temple,  he 
departed,  an<l  went  and  feanged  himself  with  an  hal- 
ter. But  the  chief  priests  having  taken  the  pi 
of  silver,  said:  It  is  not  lawful  to  put  them  into  the 
corbona,  because  it  is  the  price  of  blood.  And  after 
they  had  consulted  together,  they  bought  with  them 
the  potter's  field,  to  be  a  burying  place  for  str«$- 
gers.  For  this  cause  that  field  was  called  Hacel- 
dama,  that  is,  the  field  of  blood,  even  to  this  day. 
Then  was  fulfilled  that  which  was  spoken  by  Jere- 
mias  the  prophet,  saying:  "And  they  took  the 
thirty  pieces  of  silver,  the  price  of  him  that  was  priz- 
ed, v.'hom  they  prized  of  the  children  of  Israel.  And 
they  gave  them  unto  the  potter's  field,  as  the  Lord 
appointed  to  me."  And  Jesus  stood  before  the  go- 
vernor, and  the  governor  asked  him,  saying:  Art 
them  the  king  of  the  Jews?  Jesus  saith  to"  him; 
Thou  sayest  it.  And  when  he  was  accused  by  the 
chief  priests  and  ancients  he  answered  nothing.  Then 
Pilate  saith  to  him:  Dost  thou  not  hear  how  great 
testimonies  they  alledge  against  thee  ?  And  he  an- 
swered hip  to  never  a  word;  so  that  the  governor 
wondered  exceedingly.  Now  upon  the  solemn  day 
the  governor  was  accustomed  to  release  to  the  peo- 
ple one  prisoner,  whom  they  would.  And  he  had 
then  a.  notorious  prisoner,  that  was  called  Barabbas. 
They  therefore  being  gathered  together,  Pilate  said: 
V/hom  will  you  that  I  release  to  you,  Barabbas,  or 
Jesus  that  is  called  Christ  ?  For  he  knew  that  for  en- 
vy they  had  delivered  him.  And  as  he  was  sitting 
in  the  place  of  judgment,  his  wife  sent  to  him,  say-, 
ing:  Have  thon  nothing  to  do  with  that  just  man. 
For  I  have  suffered  many  things  this  day  in  a  dream 
because  of  him.  But  the  chief  priests  and  ancients 
persuaded  the  people,  that  they  should  ask  Barab- 
bas, and  make  Jesus  away.  And  the  governor  an. 
swering,  said  to  them  :  Whether  will  you  of  the 
two  to  be  released  uuto  you«  But  they  said  Barab- 


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bas.     Pilate  iaith  to  them :    What  shall  I   do  then 
wish  Jesus  that  is  called  Christ  ?  They  say  all :    Let 
him   be  crucified.      The   governor  said  to   them  : 
\Vhy,  what  evil  hath  he  done?  But  they  cried  out 
the  more,  saying:   Let  him  be  crucified.      And  Pi- 
Kite  seeing  that  he  prevailed  nothing ;    but   rather 
a  tumult  was  made;  taking  water  he  washed  his 
hands  before  the  people,  saying:  I  am  innocent  of 
the  blood  of  this  just  man:  look  you  to  it.     And  the 
whole  people  answering,   said;    Mis  blood  be  upon 
us,  and   upon  our  children.     Then  he  released  to 
them  Barabbas:   and  having  scourged  Jesus,  deliver- 
ed him  unto  them  to  be  crucified.     Then  the  sol- 
diers of  the  governor  taking  Jesus  into  the  hall,  ga- 
thered  together  unto    him  the  whole    band  ;    and 
stripping  him,   they  put  a  scarlet  cloak  about  him. 
And  platting  a  crown  oflhorns,  they  put  it   upon 
his  head,  and  a  reed  in  his  right  hand.     And  bow- 
ing the  knee  before  him,  they  mocked  him,  saying  : 
Hail,  king  of  the  Jews.     And  spitting  upon  him, 
they  took  the  reed,  and  struck  his  head.     And  after 
they  had  mocked  him,  they  took  off  the  cloak  from 
bin),  and  put  on    his  own  garments,  and  led  him 
away  to  crucify  him.     And  going  out  they  met   a 
man  of  Cyrene,  named  Simon:  him  they  forced  to 
take  up  t<ie  cross.     And  they  came  to  the  place  that 
is  called  Golgotha,  which   is  the  place  of  Calvary. 
And  they  gave  him  wine  to  drink  mingled  vvith  gall. 
And    when  he  hud  tasted,    he   would   not  drink. 
Arid  after  they  had  crucified  him,  they  divided  liis 
liumients,  casting   lots:    that   it  might   be  fulfilled 
v  hith  was  spoken  by  the  prophet,  saying:    *•  They 
1   my  garments  among  them;  and  upon  my 
vesture  they  cast  lots:"  and   they  sat  and  watched 
him.     And  they  put  over  his  head  his  cause  written  : 
THIS  is  JESUS  THE  KIKG  OF  THE  JEW?.     Then 
were  crucified  with  him  two  thieves;  one  on  the 
right  Laud,  and  one  en  the  left.    And  they  ihat 


34$  PALM-SUNDAY. 

passed  by  blasphemed  him,  wagging  their  head?, 
and  saying  :  V  ah,  thou  that  destroyest  the  temple  of 
God,  and  in  three  days  dost  rebuild  it,  save  thy  own 
self:  if  thou  be  the  Sou  of  God,  come  dowu  from 
the  cross.      In  l?ke  manner  also   the  chief  priests, 
with    the    scribes    and    ancients,    mocking,    said; 
He  saved  others;  himself  he  cannot  save:  if  he  be 
the  king  of  Israel,  let  him  now  come  down  from  the 
cross,  and  we  will  believe  him.     He  trusted  in  God : 
let  him  now  deliver  him,  if  he  will  have  him  :  for  rte 
said:  I  am  the  Son  of  God.  And  the  selfsame  thing 
the  thieves  also  that  were  crucified  with  him,  re- 
proached htm  with.Now  from  the  sixth  hour  there  was 
darkness  over  the  whole  earth,  until  the  ninth  hour, 
And  about  the  ninth  hour  Jesus  cried  with  a  loud  voice 
saying:  Eli,Eti,  lammasabacthar.i?  that  is,  "my  God, 
my  God,  why  hast  thou  forsaken  me  ?"     And  some 
that  stood  there  and  heard,  said :  This  man  calleth 
Eiias.     And  immediately  one  or  them  running,  took 
a  sponge,  and  filled  it  with  vinegar,  and  put  it  on  a 
reed,    and  gave  him   to    drink.      Arid   the  others 
said;  let  us  see  whether  Elias  will  come  and  deli- 
ver  him.     And  Jesus  again  crying  with  a  loud  voice, 
yielded  up  the  ghost.     *'And  behold  the  veil  of  the 
temple  was   rent  in  two  from  the   top  even  to  the 
bottom,  and  the  earth  quaked,  and  the  rocks  were 
rent.     And  the  graves  were  opened  ;   and  many  bo- 
dies of  the  saints  that  had  slept  arose.  .  And  coming 
out  of  the  tombs  after  his  resurrection,  came  into 
the   holy  citv  and  appeared  to  many.      Now  the 
Centurion,  and  they  that  wt-re  with  him  watching 
Jesus,   having  seen  the  earthquake  and  the  things 
that  were  done,  were  sore  afraid,  saying:  Indeed 
this  was  the  Son  of  God.     And  there  were  there 
many  women  afar  off  who  had  followed  Jesus  from 
Galilee,  ministering  unto  him:  among  whom  was 
Mary  Magdalen,  and  Mary   the  mother  of  James 
*  Here  all  kneel,  and  pause. 


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and  Joseph,  and  the  mother  of  the  sons  of  Zebedee. 
And  when  it  was  evening,  there  came  a  certain  rich 
man  of  Arimathea,  named  Joseph,  who  also  him- 
self  was  a  disciple  of  Jesus.  He  went  to  Pilate,  and 
asked  the  body  of  Jesus.  Then  Pilate  commanded 
that  the  body  should  be  delivered.  And  Joseph 
taking  the  body  wrapped  it  up  in  a  clean  liaen 
cloth,  and  laid  it  in  his  own  new  monument,  which 
he  had  hewed  out  in  a  rock.  And  he  rolled  a  great 
stone  to  the  door  of  the  monument,  and  went  his 
way.  And  there  was  there  Mary  Magdalen,  and  the 
other  Mary  sitting  over  against  the  sepulchre. 
Here  the,  Priest  sayz,  Cleanse  my  heart,  &c,  p.  xx. 

AND  the  next  day,  which  followed  the  day  of 
preparation,  the  chief  priests  and  the  Pharisees 
came  together  to  Pilate,  saying;  Sir,  we  have  re- 
membered, that  that  seducer  said,  while  he  was 
yet  alive:  Alter  three  days  I  will  rise  again.  Com- 
mand therefore  the  sepulchre  to  be  guarded  until  the 
third  day  :  Itst  perhaps  his  disciples  come  and  steal 
him  away,  and  say  to  the  people  he  is  risen  from 
the  dead  ;  and  the'last  error  shall  be  worse  than  the 
first.  Pilate  said  to  them :  You  have  a  guard  ;  go, 
guard  it  us  you  know.  And  they  departing,  made 
the  sepulchre  sure,  sealing  the  stone,  and  setting 
guards. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixviii.— My  heart  hath  long  borne 
reproach  and  misery  :  and  1  looked  for  some  one  to 
condole  with  me,  and  ihere  was  none:  I  sought 
for  one  to  comiort  me,  and  found  none-  they  gave 
me  gali  to  eat,  and  vinegar  to  drink  in  my  thirst. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  what  hath  been  ottered  in  the  presence  of  thy 
divine  Majesty  may  procure  us  the  grace  of  devotion,, 
and  effectually  obtain  a  blessed  eternity,  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt.  xxvi. — Father,  if  this  cup  cannot 
pass  away,  but  1  must  drink  it,  thy  will  be  do.ie. 

F.  COMM.     Per  %«*.— May  our  vices,  O  Lord* 


2$0  MONDAY  IN 

be  destroyed,  and  our  righteous  desires  fulfilled  by 

the  etficacy  of  these  mysteries.     Thro'. 

In  private  Masses,  the  Gospel  Matt.  xxi.  (as  above 
in  the  blessing  of  the  Palms,  p.  232,)  is  here  read 
instead  of  the  ordinary  Gospel,  John  i.  p.  xlv. 

MONDAY  IN  HOLY  WEEK. 

INTRO1T.  Ps.  xxxiv—  Judge  those,  O  Lord, 
who  hurt  me;  defeat  those  that  assault  me  :  take 
thy  armour  and  come  to  my  assistance,  O  Lord, 
my  mighty  Saviour.  Ps.  Draw  thy  sword,  and  stop 
those  that  are  in  pursuit  of  me;  say  to  my  soul  :  I 
am  thy  salvation.  Judge  those,  O  Lord,  &c.  to  Ps. 

COLLECT.  Da,  quffsunms.  —  Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  thro* 
our  weakness  faint  Dueler  so  many  adversities,  may 
recover  by  the  passion  of  thy  only  begotten  Son. 
\Vho,  with  thee  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  liveth,  &c. 

LESSON.  Isaias  1.  5.  10.  —  In  those  days  : 
Isaias  said  :  The  Lord  God  hath  opened  my  ear,  and 
I  do  not  resist :  I  have  not  gone  back.  I  have  given 
my  body  to  the  strikers,  and  my  cheeks  to  them  that 
plucked  them:  J  have  not  turned  away  my  face 
from  them  that  rebuked  me,  and  spit  upon  me. 
The  Lord  God  is  my  helper,  therefore  am  I  not  con-  • 
founded.  He  that  is  near  justifieth  me,  who  will 
contend  with  me  ?  let  us  stand  together.  Who  is 
my  adversary  ?  let  him  come  near  to  me.  Behold 
the  Lord  God  is  my  helper:  who  is  he  that  shall 
condemn  me?  Lo,  they  shall  all  be  destroyed  as  a 
garment,  the  moth  shall  cat  them  up.  Who  is 
there  among  you  that  feareth  the  Lord,  that  heareth 
the  voice  of  his  servant,  that  hath  walked  in  dark- 
ness, and  hath  no  light  ?  let  him  hope  in  the  name 
ot  the  Lord,  and  lean  upon  his  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiv. — Arise,  O  Lord,  be  attentive 
to  my  trial  j  my  God  and  my  Lord,  undertake  my 


HOLY    WEEK.  251 

cause,  f".  Draw  thy  sword,  and  stop  those  that  are 
in  pursuit  of  me. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cii.— Deal  not,  &c,  p.  117. 

d500pCU  John  xii.  i.  9 Now  J*sus,  six 

(!:.vs  before  the  pasch,  came  to  Bethania,  where  La- 
zarus had  been  dead,  whom  Jesus  raised  to  life.  And 
they  made  him  a  supper  there;  and  Martha  served, 
but  Lazarus  was  one  of  them  that  were  at  tabie  with 
him.  Mary  therefore  took  a  pound  of  ointment  of 
right  spikenard,  of  great  price,  and  anointed  the 
feet  of  Jesus,  and  wiped  his  feet  with  her  hair:  and 
the  house  was  filled  with  the  odour  of  the  ointment. 
Then  one  of  his  disciples,  Judas  Iscariot,  he  that 
was  about  to  betray  him,  said:  Why  was  not  this 
ointment  sold  for  three  hundred  pence,  and  given  to 
the  poor?  Now  he  said  this,  not  because  he  cart-d 
for  the  poor,  but  because  he  was  a  thief,  and  hav- 
iug  the  purse,  carried  what  was  put  therein.  But 
Jesus  said  ;  Lot  her  alone,  that  she  may  keep  it 
against  the  day  of  my  burial  For  the  poor  you  have 
always  with  you,  but  me  you  have  not  always.  A 
sjrent  multitude  therefore  of  the  Jews  knew  that  he 
was  there  ;  and  they  came,  not  for  Jesus1  s  sake  only, 
but  that  they  might  see  Lazarus,  whom  he  had  rais- 
ed from  the  dead. 

OFFKRT.  Ps*  cxliii. — Deliver  me  from  my  ene- 
mies, O  Lord  :  to  thee  have  I  fled,  teach  me  to  do 
thy  will  ;  because  thou  art  my  God. 

SECRET'.  Grant,  O  Almighty  God,  that  being 
purified  by  the  powerful  virtue  of  this  sacrifice,  we 
may  arrive  with  greater  purity  to  the  author  and  in- 
stitutor  thereof.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  xxxiv. — Let  them  blush  and  be 
ashamed,  who  rejoice  at  my  misfortunes;  let  them 
be  covered  with  shame  and  confusion,  who  speak 
maliciously  against  me. 

P.  COMM.  P7u6cunf.-^Let  thy  holy  mysteries. 


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O  Lord,  inspire  us  with  divine  fervour:  that  we  may 
delight  both  in  their  effect  and  celebration.  Thro\ 

Letuspray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Adjuva.— Help  us,  O  God,  our  sal- 
vation ;  and  grant  that  we  may  celebrate  v  ith  joy 
the  memory  of  these  benefits,  by  which  thou  hast 
been  pleased  to  redeem  us.  Thro*. 

TUESDAY. 

INTROIT.  Gal.  vi.— We  ought  to  glory  in  the 
cross  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ:  in  whom  is  our  sal- 
vation, life,  and  resurrection  j  by  whom  we  have 
been  saved  and  delivered.  Ps.  Ixvi.  May  God  have 
mercy  on  us,  and  bless  us :  may  his  countenance 
shine  upon  us,  and  may  he  take  pity  on  us.  We 
ought  to  glory,  &c.  toPs. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotcns  — O  almighty  and  ever- 
lasting  God,  grant  that  we  may  so  celebrate  the 
mysteries  of  our  Lord's  passion,  as  to  obtaia  thy 
pardon.  Thro*  the  same. 

LESSON.  Jer.  xi.  18.  20.  -.-  In  those  days; 
Jeremias  said  :  Thou,  O  Lord,  hast  shewn  it  to  me, 
and  1  have  known:  then  thou  shewedst  me  their  do- 
ings. And  I  was  as  a  meek  lamb,  that  is  carried  to 
be  a, victim  :  and  I  knew  not  that  they  had  devised 
counsels  against  me,  saying:  Let  us  put  wood  on 
his  bread,  and  cut  him  off  from  the  land  of  the  lin- 
ing, and  let  his  name  be  remembered  no  more.  But 
thou,  O  Lord  of  Sabaoth,  who  judgest  justly,  ami 
triest  the  reins  and  the  heart,  let  me  see  thy  revenge 
on  them  :  for  to  thee  I  have  revealed  my  cause. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiv.—  When  they  were  trouble, 
some  tome,  I  put  on  hair-cloth,  and  humbled  my 
soul  in  fasting;  and  I  will  yet  continue  to  pour  forth 
my  prayer  in  my  bosom.  F.  Judge  thou,  O  Lor<5, 
those  who  hurt  me:  defeat  those  that  assault  me: 
take  thy  armour  and  shield,  and  come  to  my  assist* 
ance. 


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The  PASSION  of  our  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST, 
according  to  Mark.  xiv.  and  xv. 

/IT  that  time:  The  feast  of  the  pasch  and  of  the 
r-*  azymes  was  after  two  days:  and  the  chief 
priests  and  the  scribes  sought  how  they  might  by 
some  wile  lay  hold  on  him  and  kill  him.  But  they 
said  :  Not  on  the  festival  day,  lest  there  should  be  a 
tumult  among  the  people.  And  when  he  was  in 
Bethania,  in  the  house  of  Simon  the  lep^r,  and  was 
at  meat,  there  came  a  woman  having  an  alabaster 
box  of  ointment  of  precious  spikenard  :  and  breaking 
the  alabaster  box,  she  poured  it  out  upon  his  head. 
Now  there  were  some  that  had  indignation  within 
themselves,  and  said;  Why  was  this  waste  of  the 
ointment  made?  For  this  ointment  might  have  been 
sold  for  more  than  three  hundred  pence,  and  given 
to  the  poor.  And  they  murmured  against  her.  But 
Jesus  said  :  Let  her  alone,  why  do  you  molest  her  ? 
She  hath  wrought  a  good  work  upon  me.  For  the 
poor  you  have  always  with  you,  and  whensoever  you 
will,  you  may  do  them  good  ;  but  me  you  have  not 
always.  She  hath  done  what  she  could:  she  is 
come  before-hand  to  anoint  my  body  for  the  burial. 
Amen  1  say  to  you,  wheresoever  this  gospel  shall  be 
preached  in  the  whole  world,  that  also  which  she 
hath  done  shall  be  told  for  a  memoihl  of  her. 
And  Judas  I^ariot,  one  of  the  tuelvr,  went  to  the 
chief  priests,  to  betray  him  to  them.  And  they 
hearing  it  were  glad  ;  and  promised  to  git'e  him 
money.  And  he  sought  how  lie  might  conveniently 
betrny  him.  Now  on  the  first  day  of  the  uulea\  enoj 
bread,  when  they  sacrificed  the  pasch,  the  disciples 
say  to  him:  Whither  wilt  thou  that  we  go  and  prc- 
pare  for  thee  to  eat  the  pasch  ?  And  he  sendt-th  two 
of  hi-  disciples,  and  saithtothem:  Go  ye  into  the 
city,  and  then-  ^hall  me<-t  you  a  man  carrying  a 
pueher  of  water,  follow  him:  and  whithersoever  he 


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shall  go  in,  sav  to  the  master  of  the  house  :    The 
Master  saith:  Where  is  my  refectory;  that:  I  may 
eat  the  pasch  with  my  disciples  ?  And  he  will  shew 
you  a  large  dining  room  furnished;  and  there  pre- 
pare ye  for  us.  *  And  his  disciples  went  their  way, 
and  came  into  the  city  :  and  they  found  as  he  had 
told  them,    and   they    prepared    the   pasch.     And 
when   evening  was    come,    he    cometh    with  the 
twelve.      And  when  they  were  at  table  and  eating, 
Jesus  saith:  Amen  I  say  to  you,  one  of  you  that 
eateth  with  me  shall  betray  rne.      But  they  began 
to  be  sorrowful,  and  to  say  to  him  on<4  by  one :  Is  it 
I?  And  he  said  to  them:  one  of  the  twelve  who 
dippeth  his  hand  in  the  dish  with   me.      And  the 
Son  of  Man  indeed  goeth,  as  it  is  written  of  him; 
but  wo  to  that  man  by  whom  the  Son  of  Man  shall 
be  betrayed.     It  were  better  for  him,  if  that  man 
had  not  been  born.      And  whilst  they  were  eating, 
Jesus  took  bread  ;  and  blessing,  broke,  and  gave  to 
them,  and  said :  Take  ye,  this  is  my  body.     And 
having  taken  the  chalice,  giving  thanks,  he  gave  it 
to  them  ;  and  they  all  drank  of  it.      And  he  said  to 
them :    This  is  my  blood  of  the  new   testament, 
which  shall  be  shed  for  many.     Amen  I  say  unto 
you,  that  I  will  drink  no  more  of  this  fruit  of  the 
vine,  until  that  day  when  I  shall  drink  it  new  in  the 
kingdom   of  God,       And  when  they  had  sung  a 
hymn,  they  went    forth   to  the  mount    of  Olives. 
And  Jesus  saith  to  them :  You  will  all  be  scandalized 
in  my  regard  this  night;  for  it  is  written:  "  I  will 
strike  the  shepherd,  and  the  sheep  shall  be  dispers- 
ed."    But  after  [  shall  be  risen  again,  1  will  go  be- 
fore you  into  Galilee.     But  Peter  saith  to  him  :  Al- 
though all  shall  be  scandalized  in  thee,  yet  not  I. 
And  Jesus  saith  to  him  :   Amen  I  say  to  thee,  to  day, 
even  in  this  night,  before  the  cock  crow  twice,  thou 
shalt  deny  me  thrice.     But  he  spoke  the  more  vehe- 
mently; Although  I  should  die  together  with  thee, 


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I  will  not  deny  thee.  And  in  like  manner  also  said 
they  all.  And  they  came  to  a  farm  called  Gethse- 
niani.  And  he  saith  to  his  disciples  :  Sit  you  he1*> 
while  I  p/ay.  And  he  taketh  Peter,  and  James, 
and  John  with  him;  and  he  began  to  fear,  and  to 
be  heavy.  And  he  saith  to  them  :  My  sonl  is  sor- 
rowful even  unto  death;  stay  you  here,  and  watch. 
And  when  he  had  gone  forward  a  little,  he  fell  flat 
on  the  ground;  and  he  prayed  that,  if  it  might  be, 
the  hour  might  pass  from  him.  And  he  said  :  Abba, 
Father,  all  'things  are  possible  to  thee,  takeaway 
this  chalice  from  me;  but  not  what  I  v\  ill,  but  what 
thou  wilt.  And  he  cometh,  and  findeth  them  sleep- 
ing. And  he  saith  to  Peter :  Simon,  sleepest  thou  ! 
couldst  thou  not  watch  one  hour  ?  Watch  ye,  and 
pray,  that  ye  enter  not  into  temptation.  The  spirit 
indeed  is  willing,  hut  the  flesh  is  weak.  And  going 
away  again,  he  prayed,  saying  the  same  words. 
And  when  he  returned  he  found  them  again  asleep, 
(for  their  eyes  were  heavy)  and  they  knew  not  what 
to  answer  him.  And  he  cometh  the  third  time, 
and  saiih  to  them  »  Sleep  ye  now,  u.ul  take  your 
rest.  It  is  enough  :  the  hour  is  come;  behold  the 
Son  of  Man  shall  be  betrayed  into  the  hands  of  sin- 
ners. Rise  up,  let  us  go.  Behold  he  that  will  be- 
tray  me,  is  at  hand.  And  while  he  was  yet  speak- 
ing, cometh  Judas  Iscariot,  one  of  the  twelve,  and 
with  him  a  great  multitude  with  swords  and  stavesj 
from  the  chief  priests,  and  the  scribes,  and  the  an- 
cients. And  he  that  betrayed  him  had  given  them  a 
sign, saying.  Whomsoever  I  shall  kiss,  that  is  he, 
lay  hold  on  him,  and  lead  him  away  carefully.  And 
when  he  was  come,  immediately  going  up  to  him, 
he  saith :  Hail,  Rabbi :  and  he  kissed  him.  But  they 
laid  bauds  on  him,  and  held  him.  And  one  of 
them  that  stood  by,  drawing  a  sword,  struck  a  ser- 
vant of  the  chief  priest,  and  cut  off  his  ear.  And 
Jesus  answering,  said  to  them:  Are  you  come  out 


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as  against  a  robber  with  swords  and  staves  to  appre- 
hend me?  L  was  daily  with  you  in  the  temple 
teaching,  and  you  did  not  lay  hands  on  me.  But, 
that  the  scripture  may  be  fulfilled.  Then  his 
disciples  leaving  him,  all  fled  away.  And  a  certain, 
young  man  followed  him,  having  a  linen  cloth  cast 
about  his  naked  body:  and  they  laid  hold  on  him. 
But  he  casting  off  the  linen  cloth,  fled  from  them 
naked.  And  they  brought  Jesus  to  the  high  priest ; 
and  all  the  priests  and  the  scribes  and  the  ancients 
were  assembled  together.  And  Peter  followed  him 
afar  off  even  into  the  palace  of  the  high  priest ;  and 
he  sat  with  the  servants  at  the  fire  and  warmed  him- 
self. And  the  chief  priests  and  all  the  council 
sought  for  evidence  against  Jesus,  that  they  might 
put  him  to  death,  and  they  found  none.  For  many 
bore  false  witness  against  him,  and  their  evidence 
did  not  agree.  And  some  rising  up,  bore  false  wit- 
ness against  him,  saying;  We  heard  him  say:  I 
will  destroy  this  temple  made  with  hands,  and 
within  three  days  I  will  build  another  not  made  with 
hands.  And  their  witness  did  not  agree.  And  the 
high- priest  rising  up  in  the  midst,  asked  Jesus,  say- 
ing;  Answerest  thou  nothing  to  the  things  that  are 
laid  to  thy  charge  by  these  men?  But  he  held  his 
peace  and  answered  nothing.  Again  the  high -priest 
asked  him,  and  said  to  him:  Art  thou  Christ  the 
Son  of  the  blessed  God  ?  And  Jesus  said  to  him ;  I 
am.  And  you  shall  see  the  Son  of  Man  sitting  on 
the  right  hand  of  the  power  of  God,  and  coming 
in  the  clouds  of  heaven.  Then  the  high-priesc 
rendi  ng  his  garments,  saith:  What  need  we  any  further 
witnesses?  You  have*  heard  the  blasphemy.  What 
think  you  ?  And  they  all  condemned  him  to  be  guilty 
of  death.  And  some  began  to  spit  on  him,  and  to  co« 
ver  his  face,  and  to  buffet  him,  and  to  say  to  him: 
Prophesy:  and  the  servants  struck  him  with  the 
of  their  hands.  Now  when  Peter  was  in  the 


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court  below,  there  cometh  to  hira  one  of  the  maid- 
servants of  the  high-priest;  and  when  she  had  seen 
Peter  warming  himself,  looking  on  him,  she  saith  : 
Thou  also  wast  with  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  But  he  de- 
nied, saying  :  I  neither  know  noi  understand  what 
thou  sayest.  And  he  went  forth  before  the  court, 
and  the  cock  crew.  And  again  a  maid  servant  see- 
ing him,  began  to  say  to  the  standers-by;  This  is 
one  of  them.  But  he  denied  again.  And  after  a 
while,  they  that  stood  by  said  again  to  Peter  s  Sure- 
ly  thou  art  one  of  them,  for  thou  also  art  a  Galilean. 
But  he  began  to  curse  and  swear,  saying  :  1  know 
not  this  man  of  whom  you  speak.  And  immedi- 
ately the  cock  crew  again.  And  Peter  remembered 
the  word  that  Jesus  had  said  to  him :  Before  the 
cock  crew  twice,  thou  shalt  deny  me  thrice.  And 
he  began  to  weep.  (Chap,  xv.)  And  straightway  in 
the  morning,  the  chief  priests  holding  a  consultation 
with  the  ancients  and  the  scribes,  and  the  whole 
council,  bound  Jesus,  and  led  him  away,  and  deli- 
vered him  to  Pilate.  And  Pilate  asked  him  ;  Art 
thou  the  king  of  the  Jews  ?  but  he  answering,  saith 
to  him  :  Thou  sayest  it.  And  the  chief  priests  ac- 
cused him  in  many  things.  And  Pilate  again  asked 
him,  saying:  Answerest  thou  nothing  ?  behold  in 
how  many  things  they  accuse  thee.  But  Jesus  still 
answered  nothing;  so  that  Pilate  wondered.  Now 
on  the  festival  day  he  was  wont  to  release  unto  them 
one  of  the  prisoners,  whomsoever  they  demanded. 
And  there  wa*  one  called  Barabbas,  who  was  put  in 
prison  with  some  seditious  men,  who  in  the  sedi. 
tion  had  committed  murder.  And  when  the  mul- 
titude was  come  up,  they  began  to  desire  that  lie 
would  do  as  he  had  ever  done  to  them.  And  Pi- 
late  answered  them,  and  said:  Will  you  that  1  re. 
lease  to  you  the  king  of  the  Jews  ?  b'or  he  knew 
that  the  chief  priests  had  delivered  him  up  out  ol  en*. 
vy.  But  the  chief  priests  moved  the  people  tl.at  ha 
*  3 


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should  rather  release  Barabbas  to  them.  And  Pilate 
again  answering,  saith  to  them  :  What  will  you  then 
that  I  do  with  the  king  of  the  Jews?  But  they 
again  cried  ou^:  Crucify  him.  And  Pilate  saith  to 
them:  Why,  what  evil  hath  he  done  ?  But  they 
cried  out  the  more:  Crucify  him.  So  Pilate,  being 
willing  to  satisfy  the  people,  released  to  them  Ba- 
rabbas, and  delivered  up  Jesus,  when  he  had 
scourged  him,  to  be  crucified.  And  the  soldiers 
led  him  into  the  court  of  the  palace,  and  they  called 
together  the  whole  band :  and  they  cloathed  him 
with  purple,  and  platting  a  crown  of  thorns,  they 
put  it  upon  him.  And  they  began  to  salute  him  : 
Hail,  king  of  the  Jews.  And  they  struck  his  head 
with  a  reed  :  and  they  did  spit  on  him,  and  bowing 
their  knees,  they  worshipped  him.  And  after  they 
bad  mocked  him,  they  took  off  the  purple  from  him, 
and  put  his  own  garments  on  him,  and  they  led 
him  out  to  crucify  him.  And  they  forced  one  Si. 
mon,  a  Cyrenian,  who  passed  by,  coming  out  of 
the  country,  the  father  of  Alexander  and  of  Ruins, 
to  take  up  his  cross.  And  they  bring  him  into  the 
place  called  Golgotha,  which  being  interpreted  is, 
The  place  of  Calvary.  And  they  gave  him  to 
drink  wine  mingled  with  myrrh;  but  he  took  it  not. 
And  crucifying  him,  they  divided  his  garments  cast* 
ing  lots  for  them,  what  every  man  should  take. 
And  it  was  the  third  hour,  and  they  crucified  him. 
And  the  inscription  of  his  cause  was  written  over, 
THE  KING  OF  THE  JEWS.  And  with  him  they 
crucify  two  thieves,  the  one  on  his  right  hand  and 
the  other  on  his  left.  And  the  scripture  was  fulfill. 
ed  which  saith  :  <(  And  with  the  wicked  he  was  re- 
puted,'1 And  they  that  passed  by  blasphemed  him, 
wagging  their  heads,  and  saying:  Vah,  thou  that 
destroy  est  the  temple  of  God,  and  in  three  days 
buildest  it  up  again  :  Save  thyself,  coming  down 
from  the  cross,  In  like  manner  also  the  chief  priests 


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with  the  scribes,  mocking,  said  one  to  another ; 
He  saved  others,  himself  he  cannot  save.  Let 
Christ  the  King  of  Israel  come  down  now  from  the 
cross,  that  we  may  see  and  believe.  And  they  that 
were  crucified  with  him  reviled  him.  And  when 
the  sixth  hour  was  come,  there  was  darkness  over 
the  whole  earth  until  the  ninth  hour.  And  at  the 
ninth  hour  Jesus  cried  out  with  a  loud  voice,  saying: 
Eloi,  Eloi,  lamma  sabacthan.i  ?  which  is,  being  in- 
terpreted :  My  God,  my  God,  why  hast  thou  for- 
saken me?  And  some  of  the  standers  by  hearing, 
said:  Behold,  he  calleth  Elias.  And  one  running 
and  filling  a  spunge  with  vinegar,  and  putting  it 
upon  a  reed,  gave  him  to  drink,  saying:  Stay,  let 
us  see  if  Elias  will  come  to  take  him  down.  And 
Jesus  having  cr.od  out  with  a  loud  vpice,  gave  up 
the  ghost.  *  And  the  veil  of  the  temple  was  rent  in 
two  from  the  top  to  the  bottom.  And  the  centurion 
who  stood  over  against  him,  seeing  that  crying  out 
in  this  manner  he  gave  up  the  ghost,  said:  indeed 
this  man  was  the.  Son  of  God.  And  there  were  also 
women  looking  on  afar  oil';  among  whom  was 
Mary  Magdalen,  and  Mary  the  mother  ot  James 
the  Less,  and  of  Joseph,  and  Salome;  \\ho  also 
when  he  was  in  Galilee  followed  him,  and  minister- 
ed  to  him,  and  many  other  women  that  came  up 
with  him  to  Jerusalem. 
litre  i*  aniii9  Cleanse  my  heart  ORDINARY,  p.  xx. 

AND  when  evening  was  now  come,  (because  it 
was  the  ParaSceve,  that  is,  the  day  before  the 
Sabbath)  Joseph  of  Arimathea,  a  noble  counsellor, 
who  was  also  himself  looking  for  the  kingdom  of 
God,  came  and  went  in  boldly  to  Pilate,  and  beg- 
ged the  body  of  Jesus.  But  Pilate  wondered  that  he 
should  he  already  dead.  And  sending  for  the  cen- 
turion, he  asked  him  if  he  were  already  dead.  And 
when  he  had  understood  it  by  the  centurion,  he 

*  He  all  Kneel,  and  pause* 


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gave  the  body  to  Joseph.  And  Joseph  buying  fine 
linen,  and  taking  him  down,  wrapped  him  up  in  the 
fine  linen,  and  laid  him  in  a  sepulchre  which  was 
hewn  out  of  a  jock,  and  he  rolled  a  stone  to  the 
door  of  the  sepulchre. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxxix.'-^Keep  me,  OLord,  from 
the  hands  of  the  sinful  man ;  and  from  unjust  men 
deliver  me. 

SECRET.  May  these  sacrifices,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  which  are  accompanied  with  healing 
fasts,  mercifully  repair  us.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixviii,— The  judges  in  the  gate 
spoke  against  me,  and  they  that  drank  wine,  made 
songs  against  me.  But  I  poured  forth  my  prayer  to 
thee,  O  Lord:  it  is  time,  O  God,  to  shew  thy 
good  will  to  me,  according  to  the  multitude  of  thy 
mercies. 

P.  COMM.  Sanctificationibus. — May  these  thy 
holy  mysteries,  O  Almighty  God,  both  cure  our 
vices  and  become  an  eternal  remedy  to  us.  Thro'. 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Tua  was.— May  thy  mercy,  O  God, 
purify  us  from  the  corruption  of  the  old  man,  and 
enable  us  to  put  on  the  new.  Thro*. 

WEDNESDAY. 

INTROIT.  Phil.  ii.—At  the  name  of  Jesus  let 
every  knee  bow,  of  things  in  heaven,  on  earth,  and 
under  the  earth  :  because  the  Lord  became  obedient 
unto  death,  even  the  death  of  the  cross ;  therefore 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  in  the  glory  of  God  the  Fa- 
ther. Ps.  ci.  O  Lord,  hear  my  prayer,  and  let  my 
cry  c  ?me  unto  thee.  At  the  name,  &c. 

liwrttdiately  after  Kyrie  eleison,  &c.  is  said : 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

I.  COLLECT.  P?-test(i — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  continually  are  pu- 
nishe-d  tor  our  excesses,  may  be  delivered  by  the 
passion  of  >.hy  only  1  Son.  Who,  £c, 


HOLY   WEEK.  *6t 

I.  LESSON.  Isaias  kii.  n.  Ixiii.  i.  7.  —  Thus 
saith  the  Lord  God :  Tell  the  daughter  of  Sion ; 
Behold  thy  Saviour  cometh,  behold  his  reward  is 
with  him,  and  his  work  before  him.  And  they 
shall  call  them  the  holy  people,  the  redeemed  of 
the  Lord.  But  thou  shait  be  called,  a  city  sought 
after,  and  not  forsaken.  Who  is  it  that  cometh 
from  Edom,  with  dyed  garments  from  Bosra,  this 
beautiful  one  in  his  robe,  walking  in  the  greatness 
of  his  strength  ?  I,  that  speak  justice,  and  am  a  de- 
fender to  save.  Why  then  is  thy  apparel  red,  and 
thy  garments  like  them  that  tread  in  the  wine  press? 
I  have  trodden  the  wine  press  alone,  and  of  the 
Gentiles  there  is  not  a  man  with  me :  I  have  tramp- 
led  on  them  in  my  indignation,  and  have  trodden 
them  down  in  my  wrath,  and  their  blood  is  sprink- 
led upon  my  garments,  and  I  have  stained  all  my 
apparel.  For  the  day  of  vengeance  is  in  my  heart, 
the  year  of  my  redemption  is  come.  1  looked 
about,  and  there  was  none  to  help  ;  i  sought,  and 
there  was  none  to  give  aid :  and  my  own  arm  hath 
saved  me,  and  my  indignation  itself  hath  helped  me. 
And  I  have  trodden  down  the  people  in  my  wrath, 
and  made  them  drunk  in  my  indignation,  and  have 
brought  down  their  strength  to  the  earth.  I  will 
remember  the  tender  mercies  of  the  Lord,  the  praise 
of  the  Lord  for  all  the  things  that  the  Lord  hath  bo- 
stowed  on  us. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixviii. — Turn  not  away  thy  face 
from  thy  servant,  for  I  am  in  great  distress:  hear  me 
speedily.  V.  Save  me,  O  God,  for  the  waters  have 
entered  even  into  my  soul ;  1  am  sunk  into  deep 
mire,  and  there  is  no  standing. 

The  Lord  be  with  you.     R.  And  with  thy  spirit, 
II.  COLLECT.      Dtus,  qui.  —  O    God,    who 
wouhlgt  have  thy  Son  surfer  on  the  cross,  to  deliver 
us  from  the  power  of  the  enemy  \  grant  that  we  iliy 


262  WEDNESDAY   IN 

servants,  may  obtain  the  grace  of  his  resurrection. 
Thro'  the  same. 

II.  LESSON,  haias  Hii.—  Tn  those  days:  Isaias 
said ;  Who  l^ath  believed  our  report  ?  and  to  whom 
is  the  arm  of  the  Lord  revealed  ?  And  he  shall  grow 
up  as  a  tender  plant  before  him,  and  as  a  root  out  . 
of  a  thirsty  ground:  there  is  no  beauty  in  him,  nor 
comeliness:  and  we  have  seen  him,  and  there  was 
no  sightliness  that  we  should  be  desirous  of  him  : 
despised,  and  the  most  abject  of  men,  a  man  of  sor- 
rows, and  acquainted  with  infirmity;  and  his  look 
was  as  it  were  hidden  and  despised,  whereupon  we 
esteemed  him  not.  Surely  he  hath  borne  our  infir- 
mities, and  carried  our  sorrows;  and  we  have 
thought  him  as  it  were  a  leper,  and  as  one  struck  by 
God  and  afflicted.  But  he  was  wounded  for  our  ini- 
quities, he  was  bruised  for  our  sins:  the  chastisement 
of  our  peace  was  upon  him,  and  by  his  bruises  we 
are  healed  All  we  like  sheep  have  gone  astray, 
every  one  hath  turned  aside  into  his  own  way,  and 
the  Lord  hath  laid  upon  him  the  iniquity  of  us  all. 
He  was  offered  because  it  was  his  own  will,  and  he 
opened  not  his  mouth  :  he  shall  be  led  as  a  sheep 
to  the  slaughter,  and  shall  be  dumb  as  a  lamb  be- 
fore his  shearer,  and  he  shall  not  open  his  mouth  : 
he  was  taken  away  from  distress,  and  from  judg, 
ment:  who  shall  declare  his  generation?  because 
he  is  cut  off  out  of  the  land  of  the  living;  for  the 
wickedness  of  my  people  have  i  struck  him.  And 
he  shall  give  the  ungodly  for  his  burial,  and  the 
rich  for  his  death;  because  he  hath  done  no  iniqui- 
ty, neither  was  there  deceit  in  his  mouth.  And  the 
Lord  was  pleased  to  bruise  him  in  infirmity  :  if  he 
shall  lay  down  his  life  for  sin,  he  shall  see  a  long- 
lived  seed,  and  the  will  of  the  Lord  shall  be  prosper- 
ous in  his  hand.  Because  his  soul  hath  laboured,  he 
shall  see  and  be  filled:  by  his  knowledge  shall  this 


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my  just  servant  justify  many,  and  he  shall  bear  their 
niquities.  Therefore  will  I  distribute  to  him  very 
many,  and  he  shall  divide  the  spoils  of  the  strong, 
Because  he  hath  delivered  his  soul  unto  death,  and 
was  reputed  with  the  wicked;  and  he  hath  borne  the 
ins  of  many,  and  hath  prayed  for  the  transgressors. 

TRACT.  Ps.  ci. — Lord,  hear  my  prayer,  and 
et  my  cry  come  unto  thee.  V.  Turn  not  away  thy 
ace  from  me ;  but  whenever  I  am  in  distress,  give 
car  to  me.  V.  In  whatever  day  I  shall  call  upon 
thee,  hear  me  speedily.  V.  For  my  days  have  va- 
nished like  smoke ;  and  my  bones  are  as  if  they  were 
fried  in  a  frying-pan.  V.  I  was  blasted  like  the 
grass,  and  my  heart  withered;  because  I  forgot  to 
eat  my  bread.  V.  But  thou,  O  Lord,  wilt  arise  and 
have  mercy  on  Sion  ;  for  the  time  to  have  mercy  ort 
her  is  come,  • 
T/ic :  PASSION  of  our  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST, 

aci-ording  to  Luke  xxii. — xxiii. 
AT  that  time:   The  feast   of  unleavened  bread* 
•*      which  is  called  the  Pasch,  was  at  hand.     And 
the  chief  priests  and  the  scribes  sought  how  they 
might  put  Jesus  to  death  :  but  they  feared  the  peo- 
ple.    And  Satan   entered  into  Judas,  whowassur- 
nawed  Iscariot,  one  of  the  twelve.     And  he  went, 
and  discoursed  with  the  chief  priests  and  the  magis- 
trates, how  he  might  betray  him   to  them.     And 
they  were  glad,  and  covenanted  to  give  him  money. 
And  he  promised.     And  he  sought  opportunity  to 
betray  him  in  the  absence  of  the  multitude.     And 
the  day  of  the  unleavened  bread  cami%  on  which1  it 
was  necessary  that  the  pasch  should  be  killed.     And 
lie  sent  Peter  and  John,  saying:  Go  and  prep- 
the  pasch,  that  we  may  eat.     Rut  they  said  :  VVh*  r,> 
wilt  thou  that  we  prepare?    And  he  said  to  them  : 
Uphold,   as  you   go  into  the  city,  there  shall  meet 
vein  a  man  cam  ing  a  pitcher  of  water ;  follow  him 
e  he  enu-reth  in;  and  you  shsll 


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say  to  the  good  man  of  the  house:  The  Master 
saith  to  thee;  Where  is  the  guest-chamber,  where 
I  may  eat  the  pasch  with  my  disciples  ?  And  he  will 
shew  you  a  large  dining-room  furnished;  and  there 
prepare.     And  they  going,  found  as  he  had  said  to 
them,  and  they  made  ready  the  pasch.     And  when 
the  hour  was  come,  he  sat  down,  and  the  twelve 
apostles  with  him.     And  he  said  to  them  ;  With 
desire  I  have  desired  to  eat  this  pasch  with  you  be- 
fore I  suffer.     For  I  say  to  yon,  that  from  this  time 
I  will  not  eat  it,  till  it  be  fulfilled  in  the  kingdom  of 
God.     And    having   taken    the    chalice    he    gave 
thanks,  and  said :  Take  and  divide  it  among  you. 
For  I  say  to  you,  that  I  will  not  drink  of  the  fruit  of 
the  vine,  till  the  kingdom  of  God  come.     And  tak- 
ing bread,  he  gave  thanks,  and  brake,  and  gave  to 
them,  saying:  This  is  my  body,  which  is  given  to 
you:  do  this  for  a  commemoration  of  me.     In  like 
manner  the  chalice  also,  after  he  had  supped,  say. 
ing:  This  is  the  chalice,  the  new  testament  of  my 
blood,  which  shall  be  slvad  for  you.     But  yet  be- 
hold, the  hand  of  him  that  betrayeth  me,  is  with 
me  on  the  table.     And  the  Son  of  Man  indeed  go* 
eth,  according  to  that  which  is  determined ;  but 
wo  to  that  man  by  whom  he  shall  be  betrayed.  And 
they  began  to  enquire  among  themselves,  which  of 
them  it  was  that  should  do'this  thing      And  there 
was   also  a  strife  amongst  them,  which  ©f  them 
should  seem  to  be  greater,     And  he  said  to  them  : 
The  kings  of  the  Gentiles  lord  it  over  them  ;  and 
they  that  have  power  over  them,  are  called  benefi- 
cent.    But  you  not  so :  but  he  that  is  the  greater 
nmong  you,  let  him  be  as  the  younger;  and    he 
that  is  the  leader,  as  he  that  serveth.     For  which  is 
greater,  he  that  sitteth  at  table,  or  he  that  serveth  ? 
Is  not  he  that  sitteth  at  table  ?  bat  i  am  in  the  midst 
of  you,  as  he  that  serveth  :  and  you  are  they  who 
have  continued  with  me  in  my  temptations:  and  I 


HOLY   WEEK.  2^5  *' 

appoint  to  you,  as  my  Father  hath  appointed  to  nv, 
a  kingdom:  that  you   may  eat  and  drink  at  my  ta- 
ble   in   my   kingdom;    and   may   sit   upon  thrones 
judging  the -twelve  tribes  of  Israel,     And  the  Lord 
said:   Simon,  Simon,  behold  Satan  hath  desired  to 
have  you,  that  he   may  sift  you    as  wheat.    But  I 
have  prayed  for  thee  that  thy  faith  fail  not;  and  thou, 
being  once  converted,  confirm  thy  brethren.     And 
he  said  to  him:  Lord,   I  am   ready  to  go  with  thee 
both  into  prison,  and  to  death.     And  he  said  :   I  say 
to  thee,  Peter,  the  cock  shall  not  crow  this  day,  till 
tliou  thrice  deniest  that  thou  knowest  me.     And  he 
said  to  them ;  When  I  sent  you  without  purse,  and 
and  scrip,   and  shoes,  did  \ou  want  any  thing?  But 
they  said:    Nothing.     Then  said   he  to  them:  But 
now  he  that  hath  a  purse,  let  him  take  it,  and  like- 
wise a  scrip  :  and  he  that  hath  no  sword,  let  him  sell 
his  coat,  and  buy  one.     For  J  say  to  you,   that  this 
that  is  written  must  yet  be  fulfilled  in  me,  "  And  he 
was  reckoned  among  the  wicked :"  for  the  thing? 
concerning  me  have  an  end.     But  they  said:  Lord, 
here  are  two  swords.     And  he  said  to  them;  It  is 
enough.     And  going  out  he  went  according  to  his 
custom  to  the   mount  of  Olives.     And  his  disciples 
also  followed  him.     And  when  he  was  come  to  the 
place,  he  said  to   them  ;  Pray,  lest  you  enter  into 
temptation.     And   he  was   withdrawn   away  from 
them  a  stone's  cast ;  and  kneeling  down  he  pray, 
ed,  saving:    Fat  her,   if  thou  wilt,  remove  this  cha- 
lice from  me;  but  yet  not   my  will,   but  thine  be 
done.     And  there  appeared  to  him   an  angel   from 
heaven,  strengthening  him.     And  being  in  an  agon)', 
he  prayed  the  longer.     And   his  sweat  became  as 
drops  of  blood   trickling   down  upon   the  ground. 
And  when  he  rose  up  from  prayer,  and  was  come  to 
his  disciples,    he  found   them  sleeping   for  sorrow* 
And  he  said  to  them  :  Why  sleep  you  ?  Aris~,  pray, 
l'-st  you  enter  into  te  notation.     A*  he  was  yet  speak- 


266  WEDNESDAY   IN 

ing,  behold  a   multitude:  and  he  that  was  called 
Judas,  one  of  the  twelve,  went  before  them,  and 
drew  near  to  Jesus  to  kiss  him.     And  Jesus  said  to 
him :  Judas,  dost  thou  betray  the  Son  of  Man  with 
a  kiss?    And  they  that  were  about  him,  seeing  what 
would  follow,  said  to  him  :  Lord,  shall  we  strike 
with  the  sword  ?  And  one  of  them  struck  the  servant 
of  the  high- priest,  and  cut  off  his  right  ear.     But  Je- 
sus answering,  said :  Suffer  ye  thus  far.    And  when 
lie  had  touched  his  ear,  he  healed  him.     And  Jesus 
said  to  the  chief  priests  and  magistates  of  the  temple, 
and  the  ancients  that  were  come  to  him  :  Are  you 
come  out,  as  it  were  against  a  thief,  with  swords 
and  clubs?  When  I  was  daily  with  you  in  the  tern- 
pie,  you  did  not  stretch  forth  your  hands  against  me : 
but  this  is  your  hour,  and  the  power  of  darkness. 
Then  they  laid  hold  on  him,  and  led  him  to  the 
high  priest's  house :    but  Peter  followed  afar  off. 
And  when  they  had  kindled  a  fire  in  the  midst  of 
the  hall,  and  were  sitting  about  it,  Peter  was  in  the 
midst  of  them.     And  when  a  certain  servant  maid 
had  seen  him  sitting  at  the  light,  and  had  earnestly 
looked  upon  him,  she  said:  This  man  was  also  with 
him.    But  he  denied,  saying:  Woman,  I  know  him 
not.     And  after  a  little  while,  another  seeing  him, 
said;  Thou  also  art  one  of  them.     But  Peter  said: 
O  man,  I  am  not.     And  about  the  space  of  one 
hour  after,  another    man  affirmed,  saying:    Of  a 
truth  this  mar  was  also  with  him;  for  he  is  also  a 
Galilean.     And  Pete/  said  :  Man,  I  know  not  what 
thou  sayest.     And  immediately  while  he  was  yet 
speaking,  the  cock  crew.     And  the  Lord  turning 
looked  on  Peter.     And  Peter  remembered  the  word 
of  the  Lord  how  he  had  said :  Before  the  cock  crow, 
thou  shalt  deny  me  thrice.     And  Peter  went  out  and 
wept  bitterly.     And  the  men  that  held  him,  mocked 
him,  and  struck  him.     And  they  blindfolded  him, 
and  smote  him  on  the  face.    And  they  asked  him, 


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saying :  Prophesy,  who  is  it  that  struck  thee  ?  And 
many  other  things  blaspheming  they  said  against 
him.  And  as  soon  as  it  was  day,  the  ancients  of  the 
people,  and  the  chief  priests,  and  scribes,  came  to- 
gether,  and  they  brought  him  into  their  council, 
saying  ;  If  thou  be  the  Christ,  tell  us.  And  he  said 
to  them :  If  1  shall  tell  you,  you  will  not  believe  me  j 
and  if  1  shall  also  ask  you,  you  will  not  answer  me, 
nor  let  me  go.  But  hereafter  the  Son  of  Man  shall 
be  sitting  pn  the  right  hand  of  the  power  of  God, 
Then  said  they  all :  Art  thou  the  Son  of  God  ?  Aipd 
he  said :  You  say  that  I  am.  Then  they  said :  What 
need  we  any  further  testimony  ?  For  ourselves  have 
heard  it  from  his  own  mouth.  (Chap,  xxiii.)  And 
the  whole  multitude  of  them  rose  up,  and  led  him 
away  to  Pilate.  And  they  began  to  accuse  him,  say- 
ing: We  have  found  this  man  perverting  our  nation, 
and  forbidding  to  give  tribute  to  Caesar,  and  saying 
that  he  is  Christ  the  King.  And  Pilate  asked  him, 
saying ;  Art  thou  the  king  of  the  Jews  ?  And  he  an- 
swered and  said :  Thou  sayest  it.  Then  Pilate  said 
to  the  chief  priests  and  to  the  multitude  :  I  find  no 
cause  in  this  man.  But  they  were  more  earnest, 
saying:  He  stirreth  up  the  people,  teaching  through, 
out  all  Judea,  beginning  from  Galilee  to  this  place. 
And  Pilate  hearing  of  Galilee,  asked  if  the  man 
were  a  Galilean  ?  And  when  he  understood  that 
he  belonged  to  Herod's  jurisdiction,  he  sent  him 
away  to  Herod,  who  himself  was  also  at  Jerusa- 
lem in  those  days.  And  Herod  seeing  Jesus  was 
very  glad,  for  he  was  desirous  of  a  long  time  to  see 
him,  because  he  had  heard  many  things  of  him  j 
and  he  hoped  to  see  some  miracle  wrought  by  him. 
And  he  questioned  him  with  many  words.  But  he 
answered  him  nothing.  And  the  chief  priests  and 
the  scribes  stood  by,  earnestly  accusing  him.  And 
Herod  with  his  soldiers  set  him  at  nought,  and 
mocked  him,  putting  on  him  a  white  garment,  and 
Z  a 


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sent  him  back  to  Pilate.  And  Herod  and  Pilate 
Wf  re  made  friends  together  that  same  day  ;  for  be- 
fore they  were  enemies  to  one  another.  Then  Pilate 
calling  together  the  chief  priests,  and  the  magis- 
tra  es,  and  the  people,  said  to  them:  You  have 
brought  this  man  to  me  as  one  that  perveiteth  the 
people,  and  behold  I,  having  examined  him  before 
you,  find  no  cause  in  this  man  touching  those  things 
wherein  you  accuse  him.  No,  nor  Herod  neither; 
for  1  sent  you  to  him,  and  behold,  nothing  worthy 
of  death  is  done  to  him  I  will  chastise  him  there- 
fore, and  release  him.  Now  of  necessity  he  was  to 
release  them  one  upon  the  feast  day.  But  the  whole 
multitude  cried  out  at  once,  saying;  Away  with  this 
man,  and  release  un  o  us  Barabbas;  who,  for  a  cer- 
tain sedition  made  in  the  city,  and  for  murder,  was 
cat  into  prison.  And  Pilate  s.;oke  to  them  again, 
de  iring  to  release  Jesus.  But  they  cried  out,  saying; 
Ciuc  fy  him,  crucify  him.  And  he  said  to  them  the 
third  time:  Why,  what  evil  hath  this  man  done?  I 
iind  no  cause  of  death  in  him  ;  I  will  chastise  him 
therefore,  and  let  him  go.  But  they  were  instant 
with  loud  voices  requiring  that  he  might  be  cruci- 
fied; and  their  voices  prevailed.  And  Pilate  gave 
sentence  that  it  should  be  as  they  required.  And 
he  released  unto  them  him,  who  for  murder  an^i 
sedition  had  been  cast  into  prison,  whom  they  had 
desired  ;  but  Jesus  he  delivered  up  to  their  will. 
And  as  they  led  him  away,  they  laid  hold  on  one 
Simon  of  Cyivne,  that  was  coming  out  of  the  conn- 
try ;  and  thfy  laid  the  cross  on  him  to  carry  after 
Jesus.  And  there  followed  him  a  great  multitude 
of  people,  and  of  women ;  who  bewailed  and  la* 
memed  him.  But  Jesus  turning  to  them,  said  ; 
Daughters  of  Jerusalem,  weep  not  over  me,  but 
weep  for  yourselves,  and  for  your  children.  For 
behold  the  days  shall  come,  wherein  they  will  say, 
Blessed  are  the  barren,  and  the  wombs  that  have 
riot  borne,  and  the  paps  that  have  not  given  suck. 


HOLY   WEEK.  l59 

Then  shall  they  begin  to  say  to  the  mountains:  Fall 


they  were  come  to  thaplace  which  is  called  Calvary, 
hel  crucified  him  there;  and  ^^\~g5 
the  right  hand,  and  the  other  on  the   eft.    And  Jesus 
said  ;  Father,  forgive  them,  for  they  know  not  what 
'they  do.  But  they  divided  his  garments  and  cast  lots 
And  the  people  stood  beholding,  and  the  rulers  w  th 
them  derided  him,  saying:  He  saved  otheis,  let  him 
save  himself,   if  he  be  Christ,  the  chosen  of  God. 
And  the  soldiers  also  mocked  him,  coming  to  him, 
and  offering  him  vinegar,  and  saying  :  It  thou  be  he 
king  of  the>ws,  save  thyself.     And  there  was  also 
a  superscription  over  him  in  letters  of  Greek,  and 
Latin,  and  Hebrew:  THIS  is  THE  KING  OF  TH 
TEWS.     And  one  of  those  robbers  who  were  hang- 
ed, blasphemed  him,  saying:  If  thou  be  Christ,  save 
thyself  and  us.     But  the  other  answering,  rebuked 
him,  savins  :  Neither  dost  thou  fear  God,  seeing  thou 
art  under  the  same  condemnation  :  And  we  indeed 
justly,  lor  we  receive  the  due  reward  of  our  de( 
but  this  man  hath  done  no  evil.     And  he  said  to  Je- 
sus :  Lord,  remember  me  when  thou  shall  come  in- 
to thy  kingdom.     And  Jesus  said  to  him;  Amen  1 
say  to  thee  ;  this  day  thou  shall  be  with  me  in  para- 
dise.    And  it  was  almost  the  sixth  hour  5  amt^ere 
u  as  darkness  over  all  the  earth  until  the  nmtn  hour. 
A'vt  the  sun  \vas  darkened;  aw}  the  veil  of  ihe  tem- 
ple was  rent  in  the  midst.     And  Ji;sus  cr\mg  with  a 
loud  voice,  said  :  Father,  into  thy  hands  1  commend 
my  spirit,     And  saying  this,  he  gave  up  t!-.-  gin 
Now  the  centurion  seeing  what  was  clone,  gioniie 
God,  savins:    Indeed  this  was  a  just  man.     And  all 
&«  multitude  of  them  that  were  come  togttner  to 
*  Here  ail  kneel,  and  pause, 


*-•  3 


270  WEDNESDAY    IN    HOLY    WEEK. 

that  sight,  and  saw  the  things  that  were  done,  return* 
ed  striking  their  breasts.     And  all  his  acquaintance, 
and  the  women  that  had  followed  him  from  Galilee, 
stood  afar  off,  beholding  these  things, 
Here  is  said  the  Prayer,  Cleanse  my  heart,  &c.p.  xx. 

AN  D  behold  there  was  a  man  named  Joseph,  who 
was  a  counsellor,  a  good  and  just  man  (the 
same  had  not  consented  to  their  counsel  and  doings) 
of  Arimathea,  a  city  of  Judea,  who  also  himself 
looked  for  the  kingdom  of  God.  This  man  went  to 
Pilate  and  begged  the  body  of  Jesus.  And  taking 
him  down  he  wrapped  him  in  fine  linen,  and  laid 
him  in  a  sepulchre  that  was  hewed  in  stone,  where- 
in never  yet  any  man  had  been  laid. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  ci. — O  Lord,  hear  my  prayer,  and 
let  my  cry  come  to  thee:  turn  not  away  thy  face 
from  me. 

SECRET.  Accept,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  offerings  we  have  made;  and  mercifully  grant, 
that  we  may  receive,  with  pious  sentiments,  what 
we  celebrate  in  the  mystery  of  the  passion  of  our 
Lord.  Thro' the  same. 

COMM.  Ps.  ci. — I  mingled  my  drink  with  my 
tears,  because  when  thou  hadst  raised  me  up,  thou 
didst  cast  me  down,  and  I  withered  as  grass ;  but 
thou,  O  Lord,  continuest  for  ever:  thou  wilt  arise, 
and  have  mercy  on  Sion;  because  the  time  to  have 
mercy  on  her,  is  come. 

P.  COMM.  iffrg/rc.— Grant,  O  Almighty  God, 
that  we  may  have  a  lively  hope,  that  thou  hast  given 
us  eternal  life  by  the  temporal  death  of  thy  Son,  re- 
presented in  these  adorable  mysteries.  Thro'  the  same, 

Let  us  pray.     Bow  down  your  heads  to  God. 

PRAYER.  Respice. — Look  down,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  on  this  thy  family,  for  which  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  scrupled  not  to  be  delivered  into 
the  hands  of  wicked  men,  and  undergo  the  punish* 
men  i  of  the  cross.  Who  liveth,  &c. »»  secret* 


:iail  THOLT,O  vain  ir. 
-AVJ^at  /.^s.vor  ra.'ifi  i. 


ji.to  complain  of? 

'ion  • 


[  *7I 

MAUNDY-THURSDAV.     - 

INTROIT.     Gal.  iv. 

WE  ought  to  glory  7\T^S  autem  gloriari 
in  the  cross  of  4.  oporttt  in  cruce  Do- 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ :  mini  no&tri  Jesu  Christi ; 
in  whom  is  our  salva-  in  quo  est  salus,  vita,  et 
tion,  life  and  resurrec-  resurrectio  nostra :  per 
tion :  hy  whom  we  have  quern  salvati,  et  liberati 
been  saved  and  delivered,  sumus. 
Ps.  May  God  have  mercy  Ps.  Ixvi.  Deus  miserca- 
on  us,  and  bless  us:  may  tur  nostri,  et  benedicat 
his  countenance  shine  nubia :  illumi/iet  vultum 
upon  us,  and  may  he  suum  super  ?ws,  et  mise* 
take  pity  on  us.  We  reatur  nostri.  Noa  an* 
ought,  &c.  tern,  4'C.  to  Ps. 

r^  The  bells  are  rung  during  the  whole  time  of  the 

Gloria  in  excelsis  ;  after  which  they  remam  silent 9 

till  the  same  time  on  Holy  Saturday. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  a  quo. — O  God,  from  whom 
both  Judas  received  the  punishment  of  his  sin,  and 
the  thief  the  reward  of  his  confession;  grant  us  the 
effects  of  thy  mercy;  that  as  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
at  the  time  of  his  passion,  bestowed  on  both  diffe- 
rent rewards  according  to  their  merits  j  so,  having 
destroyed  the  old  man  in  us,  he  may  give  us  grace  to 
rise  again  with  him.  Who  liveth. 

EPISTLE.      r  Cor.  xi.   20.  32. Brethren: 

When  you  come  therefore  together  into  one  place, 
it  is  not  now  to  eat  the  Lord's  supper.  For  every 
one  taketh  before  his  own  supper  to  eat.  And  one 
indeed  is  hungry,  and  another  is  drunk.  What, 
have  you  not  houses  so  eat  and  drink  in?  Or'des- 
pise  ye  the  church  of  God;  and  put  them  to  shame 
that  have  not?  What  shall  I  say  to  you?  Do  1 
praise  you  ?  In  this  I  praise  you  not.  For  I  have 
received  of  the  Lord  that  which  also  I  delivered  to 


27*  THE  MASS  FOR 

you,  that  the  Lord  Jesus,  the  same  night  in  which 
he  was  betrayed,  took  bread,  and  giving  thanks, 
broke,  and  said:  TAKE  YE  AND  EAT  ;  THIS  is  MY 

BODY  WHICH  SHALL  BE  DELIVERED  FOR  YOU: 
THIS  DO  FOR  THE  COMMEMORATION  OF  ME.  Ill 

like  manner  also  the  Chalice,  after  he  had  supped, 
faying;  THIS  CHALICE  is  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT 

IN  MY  BLOOD;  THIS  DO  YE,  AS  OFTEN  AS  YE 
SHALL  DRINK  IT,  FOR  THE  COMMEMORATION  OF 

ME.  For  as  often  >ou  shall  eat  this  bread,  and 
drink  the  chalice,  you  shall  shew  the  death  of  the 
Lord,  until  he  come.  Wherefore  whosoever 
shall  eat  tnis  bread,  and  drink  the  chalice  of  the 
Lord  unworthily,  shall  be  guilty  of  the  body  and 
blood  of  the  Lord.  But  let  a  man  prove  himself, 
and  so  let  him  eat  of  that  bread,  and  drink  of  that 
chalice.  For  he  that  eateth  and  drinketh  unwor- 
thily, eateth  and  drinketh  judgment  to  himself,  not 
discerning  the  body  of  the  Lord.  Therefore  are 
there  many  infirm  and  weak  among  you,  and  many 
sleep.  But  if  we  would  judge  ourselves,  we  should 
not  bejudged.  But  whilst  we  are  judged,  we  are 
chastised  by  the  Lord :  that  we  be  not  condemned 
with  this  world. 

GRADUAL.     Phil.  ii. 

Christ  for  us  became  Christ^  s  fact  us  est  pro 
obedient  unto  death,  nobis  obediens  usque  ad 
even  the  death"  of  the  mortem,  mortem  an  lew 
t'ros«,  V.  Therefore  did  cruets,  V.  Propier  qiwrt 
God  raise  him  up,  and  ti  Dem  exaltavit  i(lnn>9 
gave  him  a  name,  which  et  dtdit  illi  nomen,  quud 
is  above  every  name.  est  super  omne  no-men. 

(002fp£U  Jotn  xiii.  '•  f5« — Before  the  fes- 
tival day  of  the  pa-jch,  Jesus  knowing -that  his  hour 
was  come  that  he  should  pass  out  of  this  world  to 
the  Father:  having  loved  his  own  who  were  in  :h»- 
world,  he  loved  them  to  the  end.  And  when 
supper  was  done,  (the  devil  having  now  put  it  into 


MAUNDY-THURSDAY.  273 

the  heart  of  Judas,  the  son  of  Simon,  the  Iscariot,  to 
betray  him)  knowing  that  the  Father  had  given 
him  all  things  into  his  hands,  and  that  he  came  irom 
God,  and  goeth  to  God:  he  riseth  from  supper, 
and  layeth  aside  his  garments,  and  having  taken  a 
towtl,  girded  himself.  After  that,  he  putteth  water 
into  a  buson,  and  began  to  wash  the  feet  of  the  dis- 
ciples, and  to  wipe  them  with  the  towel  wherewith 
he  was  girded.  He  cometh  therefore  to  Simon  Pe- 
ter. And  Peter  saith  to  him :  Lord,  dost  thou  wash 
my  feet  ?  Jesus  answered,  and  said  to  him*:  What  I 
do,  thou  knowest  not  now,  but  thou  shalt  know 
hereafter.  Peter  saith  to  him  ;  Thou  shalt  never 
wash  my  feet.  Jesus  answered  him  :  It  I  wash  thee 
not,  thou  shalt  have  no  part  with  me.  Simon  Pe- 
ter saith  to  him  :  Lord,  not  only  my  feet,  but  also 
rny  hands  and  my  head.  Jesus  saith  to  him :  He- 
that  is  washed,  needeth  not  but  to  wash  his  feet,  but 
is  clean  wholly.  And  you  are  clean,  but  not  all* 
For  he  knew  who  he  was  that  would  betray  him; 
therefore  he  said :  You  are  not  all  clean.  Then 
after  he  had  washed  their  feet,  and  taken  his  gar- 
ments,  being  set  down  again,  he  said  to  them  : 
Know  you  what  I  have  done  to  you  ?  You  call 
me,  Master,  and  Lord  :  and  you  say  well,  for  so 
I  am.  If  th«n  I,  being  your  Lord  and  Master,  have 
washed  your  feet;  you  also  ought  to  wash  one  ano- 
ther's feet.  For  I  have  given  you  an  example,  that 
asl  have  done  to  you,  so  do  you  also.  CREDO. 
OFFERTORY.  Ps.  cxvii. 

The  r  ght  hand  of  the         Dextera   Domini  fecit 
Lord   hath  displayed  its     virtutem  :  dextera  Domi- 
might;    the    right  hand     ni  cxaltavit  me;  nonmo- 
of  the  Lord  hath  raised     riar,  sect  vivamt  et  narra- 
me  up;  I  shall   not  die,     bo  opera  Domini. 
but  live  and  publish  the 
works  of  the  Lord, 

SECRET.     We  beseech  thee,  O  holy  Lord,  AN 


2/4  THE    MASS    FOR 

mighty  Father,  Eternal  God,  that  pur  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  thy  Son,  may  make  our  sacrifice  acceptable 
to  thee,  \vho  on  this  day  commanded  his  disciples 
to  celebrate  it  in  ^memory  of  him.  Who. 

COMMUNICANTES.— Being  united  in  com- 
munion and  celebrating  this  most  sacred  day,  on 
which  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  was  betrayed  for  us; 
and  also  honouring  in  the  first  place  the  memory  of 
glorious  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin,  and  Mother  of  the 
same  God,  and  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ:  as  also  thy 
blessed  apostles,  &c.  (asin  ^eORDiNA.RY1jp.xxxiv.) 

HANCIGITUR,— We  therefore  beseech  thee, 

0  Lord,  graciously  to  accept  this  offering  of  us  thy 
servants,  and  of  thy  whole  family,  which  we  make 
in  memory  of  that  day  on  which  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  commanded    his  disciples  to  celebrate  the 
mysteries  of  his  body  and  blood ;  and  dispose  our 
clays  in  peace,  preserve  us  from  eternal  damnation, 
and  rank  us  in  the  number  of  thy  elect.    Thro*. 

Which  oblation  &c.  as  in  p.  xxxv. 
N.  B.   The  PAX  is  not  given  to-day. 

COMMUNION.  Johnx'm. 
The  Lord  Jesus,  after  Dominus  Jesus,  post* 
he  had  supped  with  his  quam  ccenavit  cum  disci* 
disciples,  washed  their  pulis  suis,  lavit  pedes  eo» 
feet,  and  said  to  them;  rum,  et  ait  illis:  scitis, 
Do  you  understand  what  quid  fecerim  vobis,  ego 

1  have  done  to  you,    I     Dominus    et    Magister  ? 
who  am  your  Lord  and    Exemplum  dtdi  vobis,  ut 
Master?    I  have  set  you    etvositafaciatis* 

an  example,  that  you  may  do  the  same. 

P.  CO  MM.  Refecti.—We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
our  God,  that  being  nourished  with  this  life  giving 
food,  we  may  receive  by  thy  grace,  in  immortal 
glory,  what  we  celebrate  in  this  mortal  life.  Thro1. 

***  Whilst  the  SACRED  HOST,  consecrated  for  the 
Mass  of  to-morrow,  is  carrying  in  procession  to  the 


MAUNDY-THURSDAY.  27$ 

place  prepared  for   its    reception,    the  following 
Hymn  is  sung. 

PAnge  lingua  gloriosi    Ad  firmandum 
Corporis  mysterium 
Sanguinisque  pretiosi, 
Quern  in  mundi  pretium 
Fructus  ventris  generosi, 
Rex  efYudit  Gentium. 
Nobis    datus,    nobis 

natus, 

Ex  intacta  virgine, 
Et  in  mundoconversatus 
Sparso  verbi  semine, 
Sui  moras  incolatus 
Miro  clausit  ordine. 
In  supremse  noctae  cse- 
noe  [bus, 

Recumbens    cum  fratri- 
Observata  lege  plene 
Cibis  in  legalibus : 
Cibum  turbae  duodenae 
Se  dat  suis  manibus. 
Verbum    caro   panem 

verum 

Verbo  carnem  efficit ; 
Fitque     sanguis    Christi 

merum, 
Et  si  sens  us  deficit : 

VESPERS. 

Ant.  /TALICEM  salutarisaccipiam,  etnomenDo- 
V^  mini  invocabo. 

Ps.  cxv. 

propter     meo;     *  omnis     homo 
mendax. 

Quid  retribuam  Do- 
mino, *  pro  omnibus 
quae  retribuit  mihi  ? 


cor  sm» 
cerum 
Sola  fides  sufficit. 

TAntum  ergo  sacra- 
mentum 

Veneremur  eernui ; 
Et  antiquum   documen* 

turn 

Novo  cedafc  ritui  : 
Prsestet  fides  supplemen- 

tum 
Sensuum  defectui. 

Genitori,  genitoque 
Laus  et  jubilatio; 
Salus,  honor,  virtus,quo« 

que 

Sit  et  benedictio; 
Procedenti  ab  utroque 
Com  par  sit  laudatio 

Amen. 


coelo 


V.    Panem    de 
prsestitisti  eis. 

R.  Omnedelectamen- 
turn  in  se  habentem. 


quod  locutussumj 
*  ego  autem  humiliatus 
sum  nimis. 
Ego    dixi  in    excess u 


276  VESPERS  FOR 

Calicem  salutaris  acci-  O  Domine,  quia  ego 
piam,  *et  nomen  Domi-  servustuus,  *ego  servus 
ni  invocabo. 

Vota    mea 


Domino 
reddam  in  conspectu 
omnis  populi  ejus;  *  in 
atriis  domus  Domini,  in 
medio  tui,  Jerusalem. 

Vota  mea  Domino 
reddam  coram  omni  po- 
pulo  ejus;  *pretiosa  in 
conspectu  Domini  mors 
sanctorum  ejus. 


tuus,  et  filiusancillae  tuae, 
Dirupisti  vincula  mea; 
*  tibi  sacrificabo  hostiam 
laudis  et  nomen  Domini 
invocabo. 


Ps.  cxix. 


Ant.  Calicem,  &c. 

Ant.  Cum  his  qtii  ode- 
runt  pacem,  eram  pacifi- 
cus;  dum  loquebar  illis, 
impugnabant  me  gratis. 


AD   Dominum,   cum 
tribularer,  clamavi, 
*  et  exaudivit  me. 

Domine,  libera  ani- 
mam  meam  a  labiis  ini- 
quis, *  et  a  lingua  do- 
losa, 

Quid  detur  tibi,  aut 
quid  apponetur  tibi*  ad 
linguam  dolosam  ? 

SagitUe  potentis  acu- 
tae,  *cum  carbonibus 
desolatoriis. 

Ps.  cxxxix 

ERIPE  me,  Domine, 
i  ab  hoiiiine  malo  :  * 
a  viro  iniquo  eripe  me. 

Qui  cogitaverunt  ini- 
quitatesin  corde  ;  *•  tota 
die  constituebant  praelia. 

Acuerunt  linguas  suas 
sicut  serpemis;  *  vene- 
num  aspiduni  sub  labiis 
eorum, 


Heu  mihi,  quia  incola- 
tus  meus  prolongatus  est ; 
habitavi  cumhabitantibus 
Cedar:  *multum  incola 
fuit  anima  mea. 

Cum  his  qui  oderunt 
pacem,  eram  pacificus  ; 
*  cum  loquebar  illis,  ex-' 
pugnabant  me  gratis. 

Ant.  Cum  his. 

Ant.  Ab  hominibus 
iniquis  libera  me,  Domi- 
ne. 


Custodi  me,  Domine, 
de  manu  peccatoris ;  * 
et  ab  hominibus  iniquis 
eripe  me. 

Qui  cogitaverunt  sup- 
plantare  gressus  mros,  * 
absconderunt  superbi  la- 
quenm  mihi. 

Et  tunes  extenderunt  in 
laqueum  ;  *  juxta  iter 


MAUNDY 

scandalum  posuerunt 
jnihi. 

Dixi  Domino  ;  Dens 
meus  es  tu ;  *  exaudi 
Domine,  vocem  clepre- 
cationis  mrac. 

Doi'iine,  Domine,  vir- 
tus sain  (is  meae;  *oburn- 
brasti  suprr  caput  meum 
in  die  belli. 

No  tradas  me,  Domi- 
ne,  a  desiderio  meo 
peccatori;  *cogitaverunt 
contra  me;  ne  derelinquas 
me,  nc  forte  exaltentur. 

Caput  circuitus  eorum, 
*  labor  labiorum  ipsorum 
operiet  eos. 

Cadent  super  eos  car- 
bones,  in  ignem  dejicies 
j.  a  • 

DOmine,  clamavi  ad 
te,  exaudi  me;  * 
intende  voci  meie,  cum 
tlamivero  ad  te. 

Dirigatur  oratio  mea, 
sicut  incensum,  in  con- 
spectu  tuo  ;  *  elevatio 
manuum  mearumsacrifi- 
cium  vespertinum. 

Pone  Domine  custo- 
diam  ori  meo;  *etostium 
circumstantiae  labiis 
meis. 

Non  declines  cor  me- 
um in  verba  malitiae,  * 


THURSDAY.  27? 

eos:    *  in  miseriis    non 
subsistent. 

\"ir  linguosus  non  di- 
ri^etnr  in  terra  :  *  virum 
injustnm  mala  capient  in 
interitu. 

Cognovi  quia  faciet 
Dominus  judicitun  ino- 
pis;  *  etvindictam  pau- 
pernm. 

Verumtamenjusticon- 
fitebunter  nomini  tuo ;  * 
ct  habitabunt  recti  cum 
vultu  tuo. 

Ant.  Ab  hominibus 
iniquis. 

Ant.  Custodi  me  a  la- 
queo    quern    statuerunt 
mibi,  et  a  scandalis  ope- 
rantinm  inicjuitatem. 
cxi. 

ad    excusandas    excusa* 
tiones  in  peccatis. 

Cum  hominibus  ope- 
rantibus  inicjuitatem; 
*  et  non  communicabo 
cum  elettis  eorum. 

Corripiet  me  Justus  in 
misericordia,  et  increpa- 
bit  me  ;  *  oleum  autem 
peccatoris  non  impinguet 
caput  meum. 

Quoniam  adhuc  et  o* 
ratio  mea  in  beneplaci- 
tis  eorum ;  *  absorpti 
sunt  juncti  petra*  judices 
eorum. 


A  a 


2;S  VESPERS  FOR. 

Audient  verba  mea 
quoniam  potuerunt.  * 
Sicut  crassitudo  terrse 
erupta  est  super  terram. 

Dissipata  sunt  ossa 
nostra  secus  infernum  ;  * 
quiaad  te,  Domine,  Do- 
mine,  oculi  mei;  in  te 
speravi  non  auferas  ani- 
mam  meam. 

Custodi  me  a  laqueo, 


v 


quern  statuerunt  mihi;  * 
et  a  scandalis  operantium. 
iniquitatem. 

Cadent  in  reticuloejus 
peccatores;  *singuiariter 
sum  ego  donee  transeam* 

Ant.  Custodi  me. 

Ant.  Considerabam  ad 
dexteram  ;   et  videbam  ; 
et  non  erat  qui  cognosce- 
ret  me. 
Ps.  cxli. 

OCE  mea  ad  Domi-    non  erat  qul  requirat  ani- 
mam  meam. 

Clamavi  ad  te,  Domi- 
ne, *  dixi ;  tu  es  spes 
mea,  portio  mea  in  ter- 
ra viventium. 

Intende  ad  deprecatto- 
nem  meam  $  *quia  hu- 
miliatus  sum  nimis. 

Libera  me  a  perse, 
quentibus  me;  *  quia 
con fortati  sunt  super  me. 

Educ  de  custodia  ani- 
mam  meam  ad  confiten- 
dum  nomini  tuoj  *  me 
expectant  justi  donee 
retribuas  mihi. 

Ant.  Considerabam  ad 
dexteram. 


mini  clamavi; 
ce  mea  ad  Dominum  de« 
precatus  sum. 

Effundo  in  conspectu 
ejus  orationem  meam,  * 
et  tribulationem  meam 
ante  ipsum  pronuntio ; 

In  deficiendo  ex  me 
spiritum  meum  :  *  et  tu 
cognovisti  semitas  meas. 

In  via  hac,  qua  am- 
bulabam,  *  absconderunt 
superbi  laqueum  mihi. 

Considerabam  ad  dex- 
teram, et  videbam ;  * 
et  non  erat  qui  cognos- 
ceret  me. 


Periit  f'uga  a  me,    *  et 

At  the  Magnificat. 

Ant.    Gcnantibus  au.  V.      Christus      factus 

tern  illis    accepit    Jesus  est    pro    nobis    obedi* 

panem,  et    benedixt   ac  ens      usque     ad     mor* 

fregit,  deditquediscipulis  tern. 

8UU. 


MAgnificat  *  anima 
mea  Dominum. 

Et  exultavit  spiritus 
rneus  *  in  Deo  salutari 
meo. 

Quia  rcspexit  humili- 
tatemancillge  susej  *  eo 
ce  .enim  ex  hoc  beatam 
nie  dicent  omnes  genera- 
tiones. 

Quia  fecit  mihi  mag- 
na,  qui  potens  est;  *  et 
sanctum  nomen  ejus. 

Et  misericordia  ejus  a 
progenie  in  progenies,  * 
i  mer.tibus  eum. 


MAUNDY-THURSDAY.  279 

Fecit  potentiam  in  bra- 
chio  suo ;  *  dispersit  su- 
perbos  mente  cordis  suu 

Deposuit  potentes  de 
sede;  *  et  exaltavit  hu- 
miles. 

Esurientes  implevit 
bonis ;  *et  divites  dimisit 
inanes. 

Suscepit  Israel  puerum 
siium;  *recordatus  mi- 
ser icordiae  SUSG. 

Sicut  locutus  est  ad 
patres  nostros  ;  *  Abra- 
ham, et  semini  ejus,  in 
ssecula. 


'!<  re  all  kneel i  and  say,  Our  Father,  &c.  in  secret. 
Ps.   1. 


B     Iserere  mei  Deus,* 
•<•     secundum     mag- 
i    in    misericordiam    tu« 
am. 

Et  secundum  mnltitu- 
dinem  miserationum  tu- 
arum,  *dele  iniquitatem 
measn. 

Amplius  lava  me  ab 
iniquitate  mea;  *  et  a 
peccato  meo  munda  me. 

Quoniam  iniquitatem 
meam  ego  cognosce;  * 
et  peccatum  meum  con- 
tra me  est  semper. 

Tibi  soli  peccavi,  et 
malum  coram  te  feci;  * 
nt  justificeris  in  sermoni- 
bus  tuis,  et  vincas  cum 
judicaris. 


Ecce  enim  in  tequila- 
tibns  concept  us  sum ;  * 
et  in  peccatis  concepit 
nie  mater  mea. 

Ecce  enim  veritatem 
dilexisti ;  *incerta  et  oo 
culta  sapientise  tux  ma- 
nifestasti  mihi. 

Asperges  me  hyssopo, 
et  mundabor;  *  iavabis 
me,  et  super  nivem  deal- 
babor. 

Auditui  meo  dabis 
gaudium  et  leetitiam  ;  * 
et  exultabunt  ossa  huml* 
liata. 

Averte  faciem  tuam  a 
peccatis  meis ;  *et  omnes 
iniquitates  meas  dele. 

Cor  mundum  crea  in 


Aa 


aS2  GOOD-FRIDAY- 

less  than  may  suffice  to  eat  the  lamb,  he  shall  take 
unto  him  his  neighbour  that  joineth  to  his  house, 
according  to  the  number  of  souls  which  may  be 
enough  to  eat  the  lamb.  And  it  shall  be  a  lamb 
without  blemish,*  a  male  of  one  year)  according  to 
which  rite  also  he  shall  kill  a  kid.  And  you  shall 
keep  it  unto  the  fourteenth  day  of  this  month  :  and 
the  whole  multitude  of  the  children  of  Israel  shall 
sacrifice  it  in  the  evening.  And  they  shall  take  of 
the  blood  thereof,  and  put  it  upon  both  the  side- 
posts,  and  on  the  upper  door  posts  of  the  houses, 
wherein  they  shall  eat  it.  And  they  shall  eat  the 
flesh  that  night  roasted  at  the  fire,  and  unlea- 
vened bread,  with  wild  lettuce.  You  shall  not  eat 
thereof  any  thing  raw,  nor  boiled  in  water,  but  on- 
ly roasted  at  the  fire  :  you  shall  eat  the  head  with 
the  feet  and  entrails  thereof.  Neither  shall  there 
remain  any  thing  of  it  until  morning.  If  there  be 
any  thing  left,  you  shall  burn  it  with  fire.  And 
thus  you  sail  eat  it :  you  shall  gird  your  reins,  and 
you  shall  have  shoes  on  your  feet,  holding  staves  in 
your  hands,  and  you  shall  eat  in  haste  :  for  it  is  the 
Phase  (that  is  the  passage)  of  the  Lord. 

TRACT.  Ps.  cxxxix. — *Eripe  me,  Domine,  ab 
homine  malo  ;  a  tsiro  iniquo  tibera  me,  fyc. 

Rescue  me,  O  Lord,  from  the  wicked  man ;  from 
the  unjust  man  deliver  me.  V.  Who  devised  wick* 
edness  in  their  hearts;  all  the  day  long  prepared  for 
war.  V.  They  sharpened  their  tongues  like  the 
serpent;  the  venom  of  asps  was  on  their  lips.  Y^ 
Secure  me,  O  Lord,  from  the  hands  of  the  sinner  \ 
and  from  unjust  men  deliver  me.  V.  The  proud 
ones,  who  thought  to  trip  up  my  heels,  laid  a  hid- 
den  snare  for  me.  V.  And  they  stretched  out  ropes, 
as  a  snare  for  my  feet :  by  the  way  side  they  put  a, 
stumbling-block  for  me.  V»  I  said  to  the  Lord; 
thou  art  my  God;  hear,  O  Lord,  the  voice  of  my 
prayer.  V.  Lord,  Lord,  the  might  of  my  salva* 


MASS  OF  THE  FRESANCT1FIED.  283 

tion,  cover  thoii  ray  head  in  the  day  of  battle.  V. 
Deliver  me  not,  O  Lord,  against  my  \\ish,  up  to 
the  sinner;  they  have  plotted  against  me,  do  not 
thou  forsake  me,  lest  they  should  glory.  V.  All 
their  wiles  and  all  their  calumnies,  themselves  shall 
overwhelm.  V.  But  the  righteous  shall  praise  thy 
name,  and  the  upright  shall  dwell  in  thy  sight. 
The  PASSION  of  our  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST, 

according  to  John  xviii.  and  xix. 
AT  that  time:  Jesus  went  with  his  disciples  over 
•^•*  the  brook  Cedron,  where  there  was  a  garden, 
into  which  he  entered  with  his  disciples.  Now  Judas 
also,  who  betrayed  him,  knew  the  place  ;  because 
Jesus  had  often  resorted  thither  together  with  his 
disciples.  Judas  therefore  having  received  a  band 
of  soldiers,  and  servants  from  the  chief  priests  and 
the  Pharisees,  cometh  thither  with  lanterns,  and 
torches,  and  weapons.  Jesus  therefore  knowing  all 
things  that  should  come  upon  him,  went  forth,  and 
said  to  them  :  Whom  seek  ye  ?  They  answered 
him  :  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  Jesus  saith  to  them  :  I  am 
he.  And  Judas  also,  who  betrayed  him,  stood 
\vith  them.  As  soon  then  as  he  had  said  to 
them:  I  am  he  :  they  went  backward,  and  fell  to 
the  ground.  Again  therefore  he  asked  them:  Whom 
seek  ye:  And  they  said;  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  Jesus 
answered  ;  1  have  told  you,  that  I  am  he.  If  there- 
fore  you  seek  me,  let  these  go  their  way.  That  the 
word  might  be  fulfilled  which  he  said:  Of  them 
whom  thou  hast  given  me,  I  have  not  lost  any  one. 
Then  Simon  Peter  having  a  sword  drew  it ;  and 
struck  the  servant  of  the  high-priest,  and  cut  off  his 
right  ear.  And  the  name  of  the  servant  was  Malchus. 
Jesus  then  said  to  Peter:  Put  up  thy  sword  into 
the  scabbard;  The  chalice  which  my  Father  hath 
given  me,  shall  1  not  drink  it.  Then  the  band,  and 
the  tribune,  and  the  servants  of  the  Jews  took  Jesus, 
and  they  bound  him:  And  they  led  him  muw  to 


284  GOOD. FRIDAY. 

Annas  first,  for  he   was  father-in-law  to  Caiphas, 
who  was  the  high  priest  of  that  year.     Now  Cai- 
phas was  he  who  had  given  the  counsel  to  the  Jews: 
That  it  was  expedient  that  one  man  should  die  for 
the  people.  And  Simon  Peter  followed  Jesus,  and  so 
did  another  disciple.     And  that  disciple  was  known 
to  the  high  priest,  and  went  in  with  Jesus  into  the 
court  of  the  high  priest.      But  Peter  stood  at  the 
door  without.      The  other  disciple  therefore  who 
was  known  to  the  high  priest,  went  out,   and  spoke 
to  the  porteress,  and  brought  in  Peter.      And  the 
maid   that    was   porteress,    saith   to    Peter ;       Art 
not  thou  also  one  of  this  man's  disciples  :  He  saith  ; 
I  am  not.     Now   the   servants  and  officers  stood  at 
a  fire  of  coals,  because  it  was  cold,  and  warmed 
themselves.     And  with  them  was  Peter  also  standing 
and  warming  himself.     The  high  priest  then  asked 
Jesus  of   his  disciplt-s  and  of  his  doctrine.      Jesus 
answered  him:    1  have  spoken  openly  to  the  world  : 
i  have  always  taught  in  the  synagogue,  and  in  the 
temple,  whither  all  the  Jews  resort  ;  and  in  secret  I 
have  spoken  nothing.      Why  asketh  thou  me  ?  ask 
them    \vho   have  heard  what  I  have  spoken   unto 
them  ;  behold  they  know  what  things  I  have  said. 
And  when  he  had  said  these  things,  oue  of  the  offi- 
cers standing  by,  gave  Jesus  a  blow,  saying:     An* 
swerestthou  the  high  priest  so?  Jesus  answered  him; 
If  I  have  spoken  evil,  give  testimony  of  the  evil  -.  but 
if  well,  why  strikes!  thou  me?   And  Annas  sent  him 
bound. to  Caiphas  the  high  priest.   And  Simon  Peter 
was   standing,  and  warming   himself.      Thev   said 
therefore,  to  him:    Art  not  thou  also  one  of  his  dis- 
ciples?  He  denied  it,  and  said  :    I  am  not.     One  of 
the  servants  of  the  high  piiest  (a  kinsman   to  him 
whose  ear  Peter  cut  off)  saith  to  him  :   JDid  not  1  see 
ihee  in   the  garden  with  him  ?     The  a   Pt.-ter  again 
denied  :    and  immediately   the  COCK.  crew.      Then 
they  led  Jesus  from  Caiphas  to  the  governor's  halif 


MASS  OK  THE  PRESANCTIFIED.  285 

And  it  was  morning;  and  they  went  not  into  the 
hall,  that  they  might  not  be  defiled,  but  that  they 
might  eat  the  pasch.  Pilate  therefore  went  out  to 
them,  and  said  :  What  accusation  bring  you  against 
this  man  ?  They  answered  and  said  to  him:  it" he 
were  not  a  malefactor  we  would  not  have  delivered 
him  up  to  thee.  Pilate  then  said  to  them:  Take 
him  you,  and  judge  him  according  to  your  law. 
The  Jews  therefore  said  to  him:  It  is  not  lawful  for 
us  to  put  any  man  to  death.  That  the  word  of  Jesus 
might  be  fulfilled  which  he  said,  signifying  what 
death  he  should  die:  Pilate  therefore  went  into  the 
hall  again,  and  called  Jesus  and  said  to  him  :  Art 
thou  the  king  of  the  Jews.  Jesus  answered  .  Sayest 
thou  this  thing  of  thyself,  or  have  others  told  it  thee 
of  me?  Pilate  answered:  Am  I  a  Jew?  Thy  own 
nation,  and  the  chief  priests  have  delivered  thee  up 
to  me  :  what  hast  thou  done  ?  Jesus  answered :  My 
kingdom  is  not  of  this  world.  If  my  kingdom  were 
of  this  world,  my  servants  would  certainly  strive  that 
1  should  not  be  delivered  to  the  Jews:  but  now  my 
kingdom  is  not  from  hence.  Pilate  therefore  said  to 
him:  Art  thou  a  king  then?  Jesus  answered  :  Thou 
sayest,  that  lama  king.  For  this  was  I  born,  and 
for  this  I  came  into  the  world ;  that  I  should  give  tes- 
timony to  the  truth.  Every  one  that  is  of  the  truth, 
heareth  my  voice.  Pilate  saith  to  him  :  What  is 
truth  ?  And  when  he  had  said  this,  he  went  out 
again  to  the  Jews,  and  said  to  them  :  I  find  no 
cause  in  him.  But  you  have  a  custom  that  I  should 
release  one  unto  you  at  the  pasch  :  \\ill  you  therefore 
that  1  release  unto  you  the  king  of  the  Jews  ?  Then 
cried  they  all  again,  saying:  Not  this  man  but  Barab- 
bas.  Now  Barabbas  was  a  robber.  Then  therefore 
Pilate  took  Jesus,  and  scourged  him.  And  the  sol- 
diers platting  a  crown  of  thorns,  put  it  upon  his 
head  :  and  they  put  on  him  a  purple  garment.  And 
they  came  to  him,  and  said :  Hail,  king  of  the  Jews; 


226  GOOD-FRIDAY. 

and  they  gave  him  blows.  Pilate  therefore  went 
forth  again,  and  saith  to  them ;  Behold  I  bring  him 
forth  unto  you,  that  you  may  know  that  1  find  no 
cause  in  him.  (Jesus  therefore  came  forth  bearing 
the  crown  of  thorns,  and  the  purple  garment.)  And 
he  saith  to  them;  Behold  the  man.  When  the  chief 
priests  therefore  and  the  officers  had  seen  him,  they 
cried  out,  saying:  Crucify  him,  crucify  him.  Pilate 
saith  to  them;  Take  him  you,  and  crucify  him ;  for 
I  find  no  cause  in  him.  The  Jews  answered  him  : 
We  have  a  law;  and  according  to  that  law  he  ought 
to  die,  because  he  made  himself  the  Son  of  God. 
When  Pilate  therefore  had  heard  this  saying,  he 
feared  the  more.  And  he  entered  into  the  hall 
again  ;  and  he  said  to  Jesus :  Whence  art  thou  ? 
But  Jesus  gave  him  no  answer.  Pilate  therefore  saith 
to  him :  Speakest  thou  not  to  me?  knowest  thou  not 
that  I  have  power  to  crucify  thee,  and  I  have  power 
to  release  thee?  Jesus  answered ;  Thou  shouldst 
not  have  any  power  against  me,  unless  it  were  given 
thee  from  above.  Therefore  he  that  hath  delivered 
me  to  thee,  hath  the  greater  sin.  And  from  thence- 
forth Pilate  sought  to  release  him.  But  the  Jews 
cried  out,  saying  :  If  thou  release  this  man,  thou  art 
not  Caesar's  friend.  For  whosoever  maketh  himself 
a  king,  speaketh  against  Csesar.  Now  when  Pilate 
had  heard  these  words,  he  brought  Jesus  forth  ;  and 
sat  down  in  the  judgment-seat,  in  the  place  that  is 
called  Lithostrotos,  and  in  the  Hebrew  Gabbatha. 
And  it  was  the  parasceve  of  the  pasch,  about  the 
sixth  hour,  and  he  saith  to  the  Jews:  Behold  your 
king.  But  they  cried  out:  Away  with  him,  away 
with  him,  crucify  him.  Pilate  saith  to  them :  Shall 
I  crucify  your  king  ?  The  chief  priests  answered:  We 
have  no  king  but  Csesar  Then  therefore  he  de- 
livered him  to  them  to  be  crucified.  And  they  took 
Jesus,  and  led  him  forth.  And  bearing  his  own 
cross  he  went  forth  to  that  place  which  is  called 


MASS  OF  THE  PRESANCT1FIED.  287 

Calvary,  but  in  Hebrew  Golgotha.  Where  they 
crucified  him,  and  with  him  two  others,  one  on 
each  side,  and  Jesus  in  the  midst.  And  Pilate  wrote 
a  title  also  ;  and  he  put  it  upon  the  cross.  And  the 
writing  was  JESUS  OF  NAZARETH  THE  KING 
OF  THE  JEWS.  This  title  therefore  many  of  the 
Jews  (iid  read :  because  the  place  where  Jesus  was 
crucified,  was  nigh  to  the  city ;  and  it  was  written  in 
Hebrew,  in  Greek,  and  in  Latin.  Then  the  chief 
priests  of  the  Jews  said  to  Pilate:  Write  not,  The 
king  of  the  Jews ;  but  that  he  said,  I  am  the  king  of 
the  Jews.  Pilate  answered :  What  I  have  written,  I 
have  written.  Then  the  soldiers  when  they  had 
crucified  him,  took  his  garments  (and  they  made  four 
parts,  to  every  soldier  a  part)  and  also  his  coat. 
Now  the  coat  was  without  seam,  woven  from  the 
top  throughout.  They  said  then  one  to  another: 
Let  us  not  cut  it,  but  let  us  cast  lots  for  it  whose  it 
shall  be  :  that  the  scripture  might  be  fulfilled  which 
saith  ?  "They  have  parted  my  garments  among  them; 
and  upon  my  vesture  they  have  cast  lots."  And  the 
soldiers  indeed  did  these  things.  Now  there  stood 
by  the  cross  of  Jesus,  his  mother,  and  his  mother's 
sister,  Mary  of  Cleophas,  and  Mary  Magdalen. 
When  Jesus  therefore  had  seen  his  mother,  and  the 
disciple  standing  whom  he  loved,  he  saith  to  his 
mother:  Woman,  behold  thy  Son.  After  that,  he 
saith  to  the  disciple :  Behold  thy  mother.  And  from 
that  hour  the  disciple  took  her  to  his  own.  After- 
ward Jesus  knowing  that  all  things  were  now  accom- 
Flished,  that  the  scripture  might  be  fulfilled,  said: 
thirst.  Now  there  was  a  vessel  set  there  full  of  vine- 
gar. And  they  putting  a  sponge  full  of  vinegar  about 
hyssop,  put  it  to  his  mouth.  Jesus  therefore  when  he 
had  taken  the  vinegar,  said:  It  is  consummated.  And 
bowing  his  head,  he  gave  up  the  ghost*.  Then  the 

*  Here  all  kneel,  and  pause. 


2S3  GOOD  FRIDAY 

Jews  (because  it  was  the  parasceve)  that  the  bodir* 
might  not  remain  upon  the  cross  on  the  sabbath  day 
\fbr  that  was  a  great  sabbath- day)  besought  Pilate 
that  their  legs  might  be  broken,  and  that  they  might 
be  taken  away.  The  soldiers  therefore  came  :  and 
they  broke  the  legs  of  the  first,  and  of  the  othr-t 
that  was  crucified  with  him.  But  after  they  came- 
to  Jesus,  when  they  saw  that  he  was  already  dead, 
they  did  not  break  his  legs.  But  one  of  the  soldiers 
with  a  spear  opened  his  side,  and  iui medial 
there  came  out  blood  and  water.  And  he  that 
saw  it  hath  given  testimony  :  and  his  testimony  i* 
true.  And  he  knoweth  that  he  saith  true;  that 
you  also  may  believe.  For  these  things  were  done 
that  the  scripture  might  be  fulfilled  :  "  You  shall 
not  break  a  bone  of  him."  And  again  another 
scripture  saith:  "They  shall  look  on  him  whom 
they  pierced.'* 
Here  is  said,  Cleanse  my  heart.  ORDINARY,  p  .xx, 

AND  after  these  things  Joseph  of  Arimathea 
(because  he  was  a  disciple  of  Jesus,  but  secretly 
for  fear  of  the  Jews)  besought  Pilate  that  he  might 
take  the  body  of  Jesus.  And  Pilate  gave  leave.  He 
came  therefore  and  took  away  the  body  of  Jesus. 
And  Nicodemus  also  came,  he  who  at  the  first  came 
to  Jesus  by  night,  bringing  a  mixture  of  myrrh  ami 
aloes,  about  one  hundred  pound  weight.  They  took 
therefore  the  body  of  Jesus,  and  wound  it  in  linea 
cloths  with  the  spices,  as  the  manner  of  the  Jews  is 
to  bury.  Now  th^ere  was  in  the  place,  where  he 
was  crucified,  a  garden  :  and  in  the  garden  a  new 
sepulchre,  wherein  no  man  had  yet  been  laid. 
There  therefore,  because  of  the  parasceve  of  the 
Jews,  they  laid  Jesus,  because  the  sepulchre  was 
nigh  at  hand. 
Then  the  Priest,  standing  on  the  Epistle  side,  suy,  as 

follows  : 
[Let  us  pray,  most  dearly  beloved  brethren,  for  the 


MASS    OP    THE    PRESANCT1FIED.  289 

holy  Church  of  God,  that  the  Lord  God  would 
be  pleased  to  grant  it  peace,  maintain  it  in  union, 
and  preserve  it  all  over  the  earth.  That  he  \vould 
likewise  bring  into  her  bosom  the  princes  and  po- 
tentates of  the  whole  world,  and  grant  us  peace 
and  tranquillity  in  this  life,  and  to  glorify  God  the 
Father  Almighty.] 

Priest.  Let  us  pray.  Deacon.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
SMcdcon.  Stand  up  again. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who,  by  Christ, 
hast  revealed  thy  glory  to  all  nations;  preserve 
the  works  of  thine  own  mercy,  that  thy  Church, 
which  is  spread  over  the  whole  .world,  may  perse- 
vere with  a  constant  faith  in  the  confession  of  thy 
name.     Thro'  the  same.     R.  Amen. 
[Let  us  pray  also  for  our  most  holy  Father  Pope  N. 
that  our  Lord  God,  who  hath  made  choice  of  him 
in  the  order  of  the  Episcopacy,   may  preserve  him 
in  health  and  safety  for  the  good  of  his  holy 
Church,  and  to  govern  the  holy  people  of  God.] 
Pr.   Let  us  pray.      Date.   Let  us   kneel   down. 
Sttbd.  Stand  up  again. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  by  whose  appoint- 
meiuali  things  are  established  and  maintained; 
mercifully  regard  our  prayers,  and,  by  thy  goodness, 
preserve  the  Prelate  chosen  to  govern  us;  that  the 
Christian   people,  who  arc  governed  by  thy  autho- 
rity, ma}-  increase  the  merits  of  their  faith  under  so 
great  a  Bishop,     Thro',     li.  Amen. 
[Let  us  also  pray  for  all  Bishops,  Priests,  Deacons, 
Subdeacons,  Acolytes,  Exorcists,  Readers,  Door- 
keepers,   Confessors,    Virgins,  Widows,  and  for 
all  the  holy  people  of  God.] 
Pr.    Let    us  pray.     Dcac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Sabd.    Stand  up  again. 

O  Almighty   and  Eternal  God,  by  whose  spirit 
the  whole   body  of  the  Church  is  sanctified 
Bb 


29°  GOOD    FRIDAY. 

and  governed;  hear  our  prayers  for  all  orders  and 
degrees  thereof;  that,  by  the  assistance  of  thy  grace, 
thou  mayest  be  served  by  every  rank  and  condition. 
Thro'.  Rt  Amen. 

[Let  us  pray  also  for  the  King,  the  Defender  of  the 
faith,  that  the  Lord  God  may  reduce  to  his  obe- 
dience all  barbarous  nations  for  our  perpetual 
peace  ] 

Pr.    Let  us  pray.     Deac.    Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  in   whose  hands 
are  the  power  and  right  of  all  kingdoms: 
graciously  look  down  on  the  empire  of  Great  Bri- 
tain; that  those  nations  who  confide  in  their  own 
haughtiness  and  strength,  may  be  reduced  by  the 
power  of  thy  right  hand.     Thro'.     R.  Amen. 
[Let  us  pray  also  for  our  Catechumens,  that  our 
Lord  God  may  open   for  them  the  ears  of  their 
hearts,  and  the  gates  of  mercy ;  that  having  re- 
ceived the  remission  of  sin  by  the  laver  of  regene- 
ration, they  may  also  belong  to  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.] 

Pr.    Let  us  pray.     Deac.    Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who  continually 
makest  the  Church  fruitful  in  new  children; 
increase  the  faith  and  understanding  of  our  Cate- 
chumens, that,  being  again  born  at  the  font  of bap- 
tvsm,  they  may  be  joined  to  thy  adopted  children  ; 
Thro'.  jR.  Amen. 

[Let  us  pray,  most  dearly  beloved  brethren,  to  God 
the  Father  Almighty,  that  he  would  purge  the 
\vorld  of  all  errors,  cure  diseases,  drive  away  fa- 
mine, open  prisons,  break  chains,  grant  a  safe 
return  to  travellers,  health  to  the  sick,  and  a  se» 
cure  harbour  to  such  as  are  at  sea.] 
Pr.  Let  us  pray.  Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 


MASS  OF  THE  PRESANCTIFIED.  291 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  the  comfort  of  the 
afflicted,  and  the  strength  of  those  that  la- 
bour; let  the  prayers  or' all  such  as  call  upon  thee  in 
tribulation,  come  to  thee ;  that  all  with  joy,  may 
find  the  effects  of  thy  mercy  in  their  necessities. 
Thro'.  R.  Amen. 

[Let  us  pray  also  for  all  heretics  and  schismatics, 
that  our  Lord  God  would  be  pleased  to  deliver 
them  from  all  their  errors,  and  call  them  back  to 
our  holy  Mother  the  Catholic  and  Apostolic 
Church.] 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.      Deac.   Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

r\  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who  savest  all,  and 
wouldst  have  none  to  perish ;  look  down  on 
those  souls  that  are  seduced  by  the  deceits  of  the  de- 
vil ;  that  the  hearts  of  all  those  who  err,  laying  aside 
all  heretical  malice,  may  repent,  and  return  to  the 
unity  of  thy  truth.     Thro'.     R.  Amen. 
[Let  us  pray  also  for  the  perfidious  Jews ;  that  the 
Lord  God  would  withdraw  the  veil  from  their 
hearts,  that  they  also  may  acknowledge  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  thy  Son.] 

£3*  Flectamus  genua  is  here  omitted,  in  abhorrence  of 
the  insult  offered  by  the  Jews  to  our  Saviour,  when 
they  knelt  before  him  in  derision,  in  the  hall  of 
Pilate's  palace. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who  denies!  not 
thy  mercy  even  to  the  perfidious  Jews;  hear 
our  prayers  which  we  pour  forth  for  the  blindess  of 
that  people ;  that  by  acknowledging  the  light  of  thy 
truth,  which  is  the  Christ,  they  may  be  brought  out 
of  their  darkness.     Thro.'     R.  Amen. 
[Let  us  pray  also  for  the  Pagans;  that  Almighty  God 
would  remove  all  iniquity  from  their  hearts;  that 
quitting  their  idols,  they  may  be  converted  to  the 
true  and  living  God,  and  his  only   Son,  Jesus 
Christ  our  Lord.] 

Bb* 


292  GOOD  FRIDAY. 

IV.  Let  us  pray.      Deac.   Let  us  kneel  down* 
Sttbd,  Stand  up  again. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who  seekest  not 
the  death%  of  sinners,  but  that  they  should 
live  ;  mercifully  hear  our  prayers,  and  deliver  them 
from  their  idolatry;  and,  to  the  piaise  and  glory  of 
thy  name,  admit  them  into  thy  holy  Church.  Thro' 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord,  who  livest.  Jt»  Amen. 
Here  the  Priest  takes  dozen  the  cross,  and  uncovering 

the  top  of  it,  says: 

Anth.  Behold  the  wood  of  the  cross,  on  which 
hung  the  Salvation  of  the  World. 
Then  the  Clergy,  and  all  the  people,  on  their  bended 

knees,  answer : 

R.  Come  let  us  adore*.  Venite  adoremus, 
%*  This  Anth.  and  R.  being  repeated  twice  more,  till 
the  whole  Cross  is  uncovered,  the  Priest  lays  it  down, 
in  a  proper  place,  and  all  kneeling  thrice  on  both 
knees,  reverently  approach  to,  and  devoutly  kiss,  the 
feet  of  the  crucifix.  During  this  ceremony,  two 
chanters  in  the  middle  of  the  choir  sing,  alternately, 
the  versicles  called  the  Reproaches,  because  they  are. 
in  the  name  of  Christ  reproaching  the  Jezvish  people 
with  ingratitude,  for  the  manifold  blessings  and 
favours  he  had  conferred  on  them. 

V.  My  people,    what      V.   Popule  mem,    quid 
have  I  done  to  thee  ?    Or  fed    tibi  ft    Aut    in    quo 
in   what   have  I   grieved  centrist  avi  te  ?  Responds 
thee  ?  Answer  me.  mihi. 

*  The  intention  of  the  Church,  in  expofing  the  crofs  to 
pur  veneration  on  this  day,  is,  that  we  might  the  more 
effe&ually  raile  up  our  hearts  to  HIM  who  expired 
thereon  for  our  redemption.  Whenever,  therefore,  we 
kneel,  or  proftrate  ourielves  before  a  crucifix,  it  is  JESUS 
CHRIST  only  whom  we  adore,  and  it  is  in  him  alone 
that  our  refpe&s  terminate. 


MASS  OP  THE  PRESANCTIFIED.  293 

P.  Because  I  brought        V.    Quiet   edaxi  te  de 
thee  out  of  the  land  of    terra     Egupti:     parasti 
of  Egypt  ;  thou  hast  pre-     crucem  Salvutori  tuo. 
pared  a    cross    for   thy 
Saviour. 


I.  Choir  sines,  Agios  o  Theos.          \  n  ,    ,    r    , 

IF.  Choir  answers,  Sanctus  Deus.    J  ol?  Ood' 

I.  Choir,  Agios  Ischvros    J  O  Most  Holy  One. 
]I.  Choir,  Sanctus  Fortis. 

on  -\  O 

s,    j  h 

J  o 


.y 

I.  Choir,  Agios,  Athanatos  eleison  -\      O    Holy  lm« 

imas.  mortal  On-e, 

II.  Choir,    Sanctus    Immortalis,    j        have    mercy 

miserere  nobis.  J        on  us. 

*#*  After  singing  the  foregoing  praises   of  God  in 

Greek  and  Latin  (J'ormtrly  the  two  most  universal 

languages,    to    shew    the  union    between    all  the, 

Churches)  tic  o  of  the  second  choir  proceed  wit  h  the 

Reproaches. 

V.  Because  I  was  thy  guide  through  the  desart  for 
forty  years,  and  fed  thee  with  manna,  and  brought 
thee  into  an  excellent  land,  thou  hast  prepared  a 
cross  for  thy  Saviour. 

Then  Agios  o  Theos,  &c.  is  repeated  alternately  as 
above,  after  which  two  of  Hie  first  choir  sing  : 

V.  What  more  should  I  have  done  to  thee,  and 
have  not  done  ?  I  have  planted  thee  for  my  most 
beautiful  vineyard:  and  thou  hast  proved  very  bitter 
to  me,  for  in  my  thirst  thou  gavest  me  vinegar  to 
drink  j  and  piercedst  the  side  of  thy  Saviour  with  a 
spear. 

Agios  o  Theos,  &c.    i*  repeated  as  aborr. 

V.  For  thy  sake  1  scourged  Egypt  with  her  first- 
horn  ;  and  thou  hast  delivered  me  up  to  be  scoi 

The  whole  Choir.]  My  people,  what  have  I 
done  to  thee  ?  or  in  what  have  I  grieved  thee  ?  An  • 
sv.er  me. 

Bb3 


294  GOOD  FRIDAY, 

Two  of  I.  Choir.]  V.  I  led  thee  oiitofEgpyt, 
having  drowned  Pharaoh  in  the  Red  Sea  ;  and  thou 
hast  delivered  me  up  to  the  chief  priests. 

The  whole  Choir.  My  people,  £c. 
Two  of  IT.  Choir.]     V.   I  opened  the  sea  before 
thee;  and  thou  hast  opened  my  side  with  a  spear. 

The  whole  Choir.     My  people,  &c. 
Two  of  I.  Choir.]     I  went  before  thee  in  a  pillar 
of  cloud;  and  thou  hast  brought  me  to  the  court  of 
Pilate. 

The  whole  Choir.     My  people,  &c. 
Two  of  II.  Choir.]     V.  I  fed  thee  with  manna 
in  the  desart ;  and  thou  hast  beaten  me  with  buffets 
and  stripes. 

The  whole  Choir.     My  people,  &c. 
Two  of  I.  Choir.]     V.  I  gave  thee  wholesome 
water  to  drink  out  of  the  rock,  and  thou  hast  given 
me  gall  and  vinegar. 

The  whole  Choir.     My  people,  &c. 
Two  of  II.  Choir.]     V.  For  thy  sake  I  smote  the 
king  of  Canaan  ;  and  thou  hast  smote  my  head  with 
a  cane. 

The  whole  Choir.     My  people,  &c. 
Two  of  I.  Choir.]     V.  1  gave  thee  a  royal  sceptre; 
and  thou  hast  given  me  a  crown  of  thorns. 

The  whole  Choir.     My  people,  &c. 
Two  of  II.  Choir.]     V.  By  great  might  I  raised 
ihee  on  high;  and  thou  hast  hanged  me  on  the 
gibbet  of  the  cross. 

The  whole  Choir.   My  people,  &.  and  the 
Ant.  We  adore  thy  cross,  O  Lord,  and  we  praise 
and  glorify  thy  holy  resurrection,  for  by  the  wood  of 
the  cross  the  whole  earth  is  filled  with  joy. 

Ps.  May  God  have  mercy  on  us,  and  bless  us : 
may  his  countenance  shine  upon  us,  and  may  he 
have  mercy  on  us. 

Ant.  We  adore  thee,  &c.  to  Ps, 


MASS  OF  THE  PRESANCTIFIED.  295 

Then  is  sung  the  Versicle,  O  faithful  cross !  with  the 
Hymn,  in  the  following  manner  ; 

O  Faithful  cross  !  O  noblest  tree! 
In  all  our  woods  there's  none  like  thee: 
No  earthly  groves,  no  shady  bow'rs 
Produce  such  leaves,  such  fruit,  such  flow'rs. 
*  Sweet  are  the  nails,  and  sweet  the  wood, 
That  bears  a  weight,  so  sweet,  so  good. 
HYMN. 

SING,  O  my  tongue,  devoutly  sing 
The  glorious  laurels  of  our  King: 
Sing  the  triumphant  victory 
Gain'd  on  the  cross  erected  high; 
\Vhere  man's  Redeemer  yields  his  breath, 
And,   dying,  conquers  hell  and  death. 

O  faithful  cross,  &c.  is  repeated  to*. 
With  pity  our  Creator  saw 
His  noblest  work  transgress  his  law, 
When  our  first  parents  rashly  ate 
The  fatal  tree's  forbidden  meat; 
He  then  resolv'd  the  cross's  wood 
Should  make  that  tree's  sad  damage  good. 

Sweet  are  the  nails,  &c.  from*. 
By  this  wise  method  God  design'd 
From  sin  and  death  to  save  mankind  j 
Superior  art  with  love  combines, 
And  arts  of  Satan  countermines: 
And  where  the  traitor  gave  the  wound, 
There  healing  remedies  are  found. 

O  faithful  cross,  &c.  to*. 
When  the  full  time  decreed  above 
Was  come  to  shew  this  work  of  love, 
Th'  Eternal  Father  sends  his  Son, 
The  world's  Creator  from  his  throne  I 
Who  on  our  earth,  this  vale  of  tears, 
Cloth'd  with  a  virgin's  flesh  appears. 

Sweet  are  the  nails,  &c.  from** 


296  GOOD    FRIDAY. 

Thus  God  made  man,  an  infant  lies, 
And  in  the  manger  weeping  cries: 
His  sacred  limbs  by  Mary  bound, 
The  poorest  tatter' d  rags  surround  ; 
And  God's  incarnate  feet  and  hands 
Are  closely  bound  with  swathing  bands, 

O  faithful  cross,  &c.  to . 
Full  thirty  years  were  fully  spent 
In  this  our  mortal  banishment ; 
And  then  the  Son  of  Man  decreed 
For  the  lost  sons  of  men  to  bleed  5 
And  on  the  cross  a  victim  laid, 
The  solemn  expiation  made. 

Sweet  are  the  nails,  See.  from*. 
Gall  was  his  drink  ;  his  flesh  they  teat 
With  thorns  and  nails;   a  cruel  spear 
Pierces  his  side,  from  whence  a  flood 
Streams  forth,  of  water  mix'd  with  blood; 
With  what  a  tide  are  wash'd  again 
The  sinful  earth,  the  stars,  the  maiut 

O  faithful  cross,  &c.  to*. 
Bend  tow' ring  tree,  thy  branches  bend, 
Thy  native  stubbornness  suspend: 
Let  not  stiff  nature  use  its  force, 
To  weaker  saps  have  now  recourse; 
With  softest  arms  receive  thy  load, 
And  gently  bear  our  dying  God. 

Sweet  are  the  nails,  &c.  from** 
On  thee  alone  the  Lamb  was  "slain 
That  reconcild  the  world  again  ; 
And  when  on  raging  seas  was  tost 
The  shipwrecked  world,  and  mankind  lost, 
Besprinkled  with  his  sacred  gore, 
Thou  safely  brought  them  to  the  shore. 

O  faithful  cross,  £rc.  :to*t 
All  glory  to  the  sacred  Three, 
One  undivided  Deity  ; 


MASS  OF  THE  PRES ANCTIFIED.  297 

To  Father,  Holy  Ghost,  and  Son, 
15e  equal  praise  and  homage  done  ; 
Let  the  whole  universe  proclaim 
Or'  One  and  Three  the  glorious  name.     Amen, 
Sweet  are  the  nails,  &c.  from*. 

Towards  the  end  of  the  Adoration,  &c.   the  Candles 
on    the    Altar    are    lighted,    and   the  Cross  being 
placed  thereon,  the  Priest,    with    his  Attendants, 
goes    to  fetch    the   Sacred    Host  fro-m   the  place 
where  it  was  yesterday  deposited.       Whilst  the  Pro- 
cession is  returning  the  following  HYMN  is  su?ig, 
VExilla   regis  prode-     Electa  digno  stipite 
unt,  Tain     saucta     membra 

Fulgit  Crucis  mysterium;  tangere  ! 

Qua  vita  mortem  pertu-        Beata,  cujus  brachiis 

lit,  Pretium  pependitsseculi, 

Et  morte  vitam  protulit.      Statera  facta  corporis, 

Quae  vulnerata  lancese  Tulitque  prsedam  tartari. 
Mucronediro,  criminum  O  crux,  ave  spes  uni. 
Ut  nos  laveret  sordibus,  ca 

Mauavit  unda  et  sangui-    Hoc  passionis  temporel 

ne.  [cinit     Piis  adauge  gratiam, 

Impleta  sunt,  quae  con-    Reisque  dele  crimina. 
David  fideli  carmine,  Te  fons  salutis,  Trini- 

Dicendo  nationibus;  tas,  [tus; 

Regnavit  a  ligno  Deus.  Coilaudet  omnis  Spin- 
Arbor  decora  et  fulgi-  Quibus  crucis  victoriam 

gida,  Largiris,  adde  praemium. 

Ornata  regis  pnrpura!  Amen. 

Having  placed  the  Sacred  Host  on  the  Altar,  he 
censes  it  on  his  knee*,  and  lajs  it  on  the  corporal ; 
and  after  receiving  tht  Chalice  zcith  wine  and  water 
from  the  Deacon,  he  censes  both  Host  and  Chalice, 
auying  ; 

MAY  trlis  incense,  which  hath  been  blessed  by 
thee,  O  Lord,  asctnd  to  thee,  and  may  thy 
mercy  descend  upon  us. 


298  GOOD    FRIDAY. 

At  the  censing  of  the  Altar. 

LET  my  prayer,  O  Lord,  ascend  like  incense  in 
thy  sight;  and  let  the  lifting:  up  of  my  hands 
be  like  the  evening  sacrifice.  Place,  O  Lord,  a 
guard  upon  my  mouth,  and  a  gate  of  prudence  be- 
fore my  lips,  that  my  heart  may  not  wander  after 
Words  of  malice,  to  seek  excuses  in  sin. 

On  returning  the  Censer  to  the  Deacon  he  says  : 

MAY  the  Lord  kindle  in  us  the  fire  of  his  love, 
and  the  flame  of  everlasting  charity* 
Then  he  washes  his  finger*  without  saying  any  thing  ; 
afterwards  he  bozcs  dozen  at  the  middle  of  the  altar, 
and  says  : 

ACCEPT  us,  O  Lord,  coming  to  thee  in  the  spi- 
rit  of  humility,    and  with   a  contrite   heart; 
and  grant  that  the  sacrifice  of  this  day  may  be  so  cc- 
lehrated  by  us  as  to  be  well  pleasing  to  thee,  OLord 
our  God. 

Then  turning  about  towards  the  people,  he  says: 
Pr.  T3Rethren,  pray  that   this    my   sacrifice   and 
JO  yours  may  be  acceptable  to  God  the  Father 
Almighty. 

R.  May  the  Lord  receive  this  sacrifice  from  thy 
hands  to  the  praise  and  glory  of  his  own  name,  to 
our  benefit,  and  that  of  all  his  holy  Church. 

Let  us  pray. 

Pr.  TNstructed  by  thy  saving  precepts,  and  follow- 
L  ing  thy  divine  directions,    we  presume  to 
say:  Our  Father,  &c.  p.  xxix. 
R,  Deliver  us  from  all  evil* 

Having  ansn\red  Amen  in  silence,  he  then  says  aloud; 
Deliver  us,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  &c.  as  in 
p.  xl. 

Having  elevated  the  Sacred  Host,  and  divided  it 
into  three  parts,  he  pats  one  into  the  Chalice  say» 
ing  ; 

LET  not  the  participation  of  thy  body,  O  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  which  I,  though  unworthy,  pre* 


HOLY  SATURDAY.  299 

sume  to  receive,  turn  to  my  judgment  and  con- 
damnation;  but  let  it,  through  thy  mercy,  become 
a  safe-guard  and  remedy  both  to  soul  and  body  • 
who  with  God  the  Father,  in  unity  with  the  Holy 
Ghost,  livest  and  reignest,  one  God,  world  without 
end.  Amen. 
Taking  up  the  Sacred  Host  on  the  Paten,  he  says  : 

IWill  receive  the  bread  of  heaven,  and  call  on  the 
name  of  the  Lord. 

Then  he  strikes  his  breast,  repeating  thrice: 
T  ORD,  I  am  not  worthy  thou  shouldst  enter  under 
•*"*  my  roof;  speak  therefore  but  the  word,  and  my 
soul  shall  be  healed. 

When  he  receives  the  Sacred  Host,  he  says : 

MAY  the  body  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  preserve 
my  soul  to  everlasting  life.     Amen. 
Having  received  the  Chalice,  and  taken  the  Ablution^ 
bowing  dozen,  he  says ; 

GRANT,  O  Lord,  that  what  we  have    taken 
with  our  mouths,  we  may  receive  with  a  pure 
heart ;    that  as  we  now  receive  it  in  this  mortal  life, 
it  may  procure  us  that  which  is  eternal. 

VESPERS. 
ANTHEMS  and  PSALMS,  as  yesterday ,  p.  275. 

At  the  Magnificat. 

Ant.    Cum  accepissit  acetum  dixit ;   consummation 
est  \  et  inclinato  capiit,  emisit  spiritum. 

V.  Christ  us  fact  us  est  pro  nobis  obediens  usque  ad 
mortem,  mortem  autcm  crucis. 

Our  Father  being  said  in  secret,  the  office  concludes 
with  the  Ps.  Miserere,  ^,279,  and  the  Prajer  Res- 
pice,  f.  270. 

""HOLY  SATURDAY. 

TN  the  first  ages  of  the  Church  there  was  no  Mass  cele- 
brated either  on  this  day  or  yesterday.      The  faithful 
silently  adored  Jesus  Christ  in  the  sepulchre  till    towards 
evening,  when  they  aiTembled   in  the  Church;  and  occu- 


3<50  OFFICE    BEFOTE    MASS 

pied  themselves  in  praying,  reading  lessons  from  the  holy 
Scriptures,  Tinging  pfalms,  baptizing  and  confirming  ca- 
techumens, &c.  &c.  until  about  midnight,  when  the  Mais 
of  the  Resurrection  began.  Wherefore  in  order  to  perpe- 
tuate the  remembrance  of  the  fervent  piety  of  her  nrfl 
children,  the  Church  ftill  retains  the  word  night  in  the 
Office  of  this  day. 

The  BLESSING  of  the  FIRE. 

The  Lord  be  with  you.      R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 
Let  us  pray.     Deus,  qui. 

OGod,  who  by  thy  only  Son,  the  chief  corner- 
stone of  thy  Church,  hast  bestowed  on  the 
faithful  the  fire  of  thy  divine  love  :  bless  Jfp  this  new 
fire  produced  from  a  flint  for  our  use  ;  and  grant 
that  during  this  paschal  solemnity,  we  may  be  so 
inflamed  with  heavenly  desires,  that,  with  purity  of 
mind,  we  may  come  to  those  festivals,  where  we 
may  enjoy  a  light  which  will  never  end.  Thro'  the 
same.  R.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray.     Domine,  Deus. 

/^\  Lord  God,  Almighty  Father,  never-failing 
^  light,  who  art  the  Creator  of  all  the  lights: 
bless  4**  this  light,  which  hath  been  before  blessed 
and  sanctified  by  thee,  who  hast  enlightened  the 
whole  world;  that  we  may  be  inflamed  by  that  same 
light,  and  enlightened  by  the  fire  of  thy  brightness  j 
and  as  thou  didst  enlighten  Moses  when  he  went 
out  of  Egypt,  so  enlighten  our  hearts  and  senses, 
that  we  may  obtain  that  light  and  life  which  will 
have  no  enJ.  Thro'  Christ  our  Lord.  R.  Amen 

Let  us  pray.    Do  mine  sanctc. 

£\  Holy  Lord,  Almighty  Father,  Eternal  God, 
^  vouchsafe  to  assist  us,  while  we  bless  this  tire 
in  thy  name,  and  in  that  of  thy  only  Son  Jtsus 
Christ,  our  Lord  and  God,  and  the  Holy  Ghost: 
assist  us  against  the  fiery  dans  of  the  enemy,  and 
rhten  us  with  thy  heavenly  grace*  Who  iivest 
eignest  with  the  same,  &c,  R.  Amen. 


Ok    HOLY    SATURDAY.  3Ot 

The  BLESSING  of  the  five  Grains  of  INCENSE. 

PLentifully  pour  forth,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Al- 
mighty God,  thy  «^  blessing  on  this  incense  : 
and  kindle,  O  invisible  regenerator,    the  brightness 
of  this  night;    that  not  only  the  sacrifice,  which  is 
otfered  this  night,  may  shine  by  the  secret  mixture  of 
thy  light;  but  also,  that  into  whatever  place  any 
thing  sanctified  by  these  imstical  prayers  shall  be 
carried,  there  by  the  power  of  thy  majesty,  all  the 
malicious  artifices  of  the  devil  may  be  defeated. 
Thro'  Christ  our  Lord.     It.  Amen. 
After  an  Acolyte  has  put  some  of  the  blessed  Fire  into 
the  Censer,  the  Priest  adds  incense,  saying  ;  "  May 
thou  be  blessed  »j*  by  him,  in  whose  honour  thou 
art  to  be  burnt.'*      Here  he  sprinkles  the  Grains  of 
Incense  and  the  Fire  thrice,  saying  :    "  Sprinkle 
me,  &c.  p.  xiii.     Then  having  fumed  them  thrice 
tilth  Incense,  he  takes  the  Cane  with  the  three 
Candles  to  the  entrance  of  the  Church,  where  ore 
w  lighted  by  an  Acolyte  with  a  candle  from  the  new 
Jire,  whilst  the  Deacon  sings  alone  :    «'  Behold  the 
light  of  Christ,"     to    which,    all   kneeling,  add : 
r  "  R.  Thanks  he  to  God  " 

The  sa?ne  is  repeated  at  lighting  tht  second  in  the 
middle  of  the  Church,  and  the  third  at  the  foot  of 
the  altar;  after  which  the  Deacon  says :    "  Pray» 
Sir,  give  me  your  blessing."     To  which  the  Priest 
replies:  "  May  the  Lord  be  in   your  heart  and 
lips,  that  you  may  worthily  and  fitlv  proclaim  his 
Paschal  praise:  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of 
the  Son  *J-,  &c.     R.  Amen." 
During  the  BLESSING  of  the  PASCHAL  CAN- 
DLE, all  stand  up. 

I  ET  now  the  heavenly  troops  of  angels  rejoice  i 

let  these  divine  mysteries  be  joyfully  celebrated  ; 

ar\4  let  the  heavenly  trumpet  publish  the  victory  of 

our  great  King  ;  and  let  the  eanh  also  triumph,  be* 

ing  beautified  with  such  resplendent  beams  $    and  let 

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it  see  the  darkness  which  overspread  the  whole 
world  chaced  away  by  the  splendor  of  our  Eternal 
King.  Let  our  Mother  the  Church  also  rejoice,  be- 
ing adorned  by  the  rays  of  so  great  a  light ;  and  let 
this  temple  echo  with  the  joyful  acclamations  of  all 
the  people.  And  therefore  I  beseech  you,  dear 
brethren,  who  behold  the  wonderful  brightness  of 
this  holy  light,  to  join  with  me  in  invoking  the 
mercy  of  Almighty  God  5  that  he  who  hath  been 
pleased,  without  any  merit  on  my  side,  to  admit 
me  into  the  number  of  his  Levites,  may,  by  the 
effusion  of  light  upon  me,  enable  me  to  go  through 
with  the  encomium  of  this  taper.  Thro*  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  his  Son,  who  with  him  and  the  Holy 
Ghost  liveth  and  reigneth  one  God  world  without 
end.  R.  Amen. 

I".  The  Lord  be  with  you.  H.  And  with  thy 
spirit.  V.  Raise  up  your  hearts  on  high.  R.  We 
have  them  raised  up  to  the  Lord.  V.  Let  us  give 
thanks  to  the  Lord  our  God.  R.  It  is  meet  and 
just. 

|T  is  truly  meet  and  just  to  proclaim  with  all  the 
•*•  affection  ©f  heart  and  soul,  and  sound  of  voice, 
the  invisible  God,  the  Father  Almighty,  and  his 
only  Son  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ:  who  paid  for  us  to' 
his  eternal  Father  the  debt  of  Adam  j  and,  by  his 
sacred  blood,  cancelled  the  guilt  of  the  original  of. 
*ence.  For  this  is  the  Paschal  solemnity,  in  which  the 
irue  Lamb  was  slain,  by  whose  blood  the  doors  of 
the  faithful  are  consecrated.  This  is  the  night,  in 
which  thou  formerly  didst  bring  forth  our  forefather?, 
the  children  of  Israel,  out  of  Egypt,  leading  them 
dry-foot  through  the  Red-Sea.  This  also  is  that 
night  which  dissipated  the  darkness  of  sin  by  the 
iight  of  a  pillar  of  fire.  This  is  the  night,  which, 
withdrawing  all  those  who,  through  the  whole 
world,  believe  in  Christ,  from  the  vices  of  the 
world,  and  the  darkness  of  sin,  restores  them  to 


ON  HOLY-SATURDAY.  303 

grace,  and  gives  them  a  fellowship  with  the  sain  is. 
This  is  the  night  in  which  Christ  broke  the  chains 
of  death,  and  ascended  victorious  from  the  grave. 
For  it  would  have  availed  us  nothing  to  have  been 
born,  unless  we  had  also  the  advantage  of  being  re- 
deemed. O  the  wonders  of  thy  mercy  towards  vs! 
O  the  inestimable  excess  of  thy  love.  Thou  didst 
deliver  up  thy  Son  to  redeem  a  slave!  O  truly  neces- 
sary sin  of  Adam,  which  hath  been  blotted  out  by 
the  death  of  Christ!  O  happy  fault,  which  deserved 
such  and  so  great  a  Redeemer!  O  truly  blessed 
night,  which  alone  was  privileged  to  know  the  hour 
and  momenfrwhen  Christ  rose  again  from  the  dead ! 
This  is  the  night  of  which  it  is  written  :  4<  And  the 
night  shall  be  as  light  as  day  :  and  the  night  shineth 
upon  me  in  my  pleasures."  The  sacredness  there* 
fore  of  this  night  puts  crimes  to  flight,  washes  away 
sin,  and  restores  innocence  to  the  ialle.n,  and  joy  to 
those  in  sorrow.  It  banishes  enmities,  produces 
concord,  and  makes  potentates  bow. 
Here  the  Deacon  fixes  the  five  Grains  of  Incense  in 
the  Candle  in  the  form  of  a  Cross,  and  then  goes  on: 

REceive,  therefore,  O  holy  Father,  on  this  sacred 
night,  the  evening  sacrifice  of  this  incense, 
which  thy  holy  Church,  by  the  hands  of  her  minis- 
ters, presents  to  thee  in  the  solemn  oblation  of  this 
wax  candle,  made  out  of  the  labour  of  the  bees.  But 
now  we  know  the  meaning  of  the  encomiums  of  this 
taper  lighted  from  this  sparkling  fire  to  the  honour  of 
God.  (Here  he  lights  the  Paschal  Candle)  Which  fire, 
though  now  divided,  suffers  no  loss  from  the  com- 
munication of  its  light,  whilst  it  feeds  on  the  melted 
wax  produced  by  the  bee  to  make  this  taper. 
(Here  the  lamps  are  lighted.)  O  truly  blessed 
night,  which  plundered  the  Egyptians,  and  enriched 
the  Hebrews!  O  night,  in  which  heaven  is  united  to 
earth,  and  God  to  man !  We  beseech  thee,  there, 
fore,  O  Lord,  that  this  taper,  consecrated  to  the 
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honour  of  thy  name,  may  continue  burning  to  dissi- 
pate the  darkness  of  this  night;  and  being  accepted 
by  thee  as  a  sweet  odour,  it  may  be  joined  to  the 
lights  of  heaven:  Let  the  morning  star  find.it  burn- 
ing;  that  morning  star,  I  mean,  which  never  sets 5 
who,  returning  from  the  grave,  darted  forth  his  be- 
nign rays  upon  mankind.  We  beseech  thee,  there- 
fore, O  Lord,  to  grant  us  peace  during  this  Paschal 
solemnity,  and  with  thine  uninterrupted  protection 
to  rule,  govern,  and  preserve  us  thy  servants,  and 
all  the  clergy  and  devout  laity  ;  together  with  our 
holy  father  Pope  N.  and  our  Bishop  N.  Look  down 
also  on  our  pious  King  N.  and  since  ?hou  knowest 
O  God,  the  desires  of  his  heart,  grant,  by  the  ineffa- 
ble grace  of  thy  goodness  and  mercy,  that  he  may 
enjoy  with  all  his  people,  an  uninterrupted  peace 
and  heavenly  victory.  .  Thro',  It.  Amen. 
Then  are  read  the  Lessons,  called  Prophecies,  for  the 

Instruction  of  the  Catechumens. 
I.  PROPHECY.  Gen.  i.  ii.— In  the  beginning 
God  created  heaven  and  earth.  And  the  earth  was 
void  and  empty,  and  darkness  was  upon  the  face  of 
the  deep;  and  the  Spirit  of  God  moved  over  the 
waters.  And  God  said:  Be  light  made.  And  light 
was  made.  And  God  saw  the  light  that  it  was 
good:  and  he  divided  the  light  from  the  darkness. 
And  he  called  the  light  day,  and  the  darkness  night; 
and  there  was  evening  and  morning  one  day.  And 
God  said;  L^t  there  be  a  firmament  made  amidst 
the  waters:  and  let  it  divide  the  waters  from  the 
waters.  And  God  made  a  firmament,  and  divided 
the  waters  that  were  under  the  firmament  from  those 
that  were  above  the  firmament.  And  it  was  so. 
And  God  called  the  firmament,  Heaven;  and  the 
evening  and  morning  were  the  second  day.  God 
also  said  :  Let  the  waters  that  are  under  the  heaven 
be  gathered  together  into  one  place :  and  let  the 
dry  land  appear.  And  it  was  so  done.  And  God 


ON  HOLY-SATURDAY.  3°5 

called  the  dry  land  E.rth  :  and  the  gathering  tope- 
ther  of  the  waters,  he  called  Seas.     And  God  saw 
that  it  was  good.     And  he  said:    let  the  eaith  bring 
forth  the  green  herb,  and  such  as  may  seed,  and  t 
fruit-tree  yielding   fruit  after  its  kind,  which   may 
have  seed  in  itself  upon  the  earth.     And  it  v  as  so 
done.     And  the  earth  brought  forth  the  green  herb, 
and  such  as  yieldtth  seed  according  to  its  kind,  and 
the  tree  that  beareih  fruit,  having  seed  each  one  ac- 
cording to  its  kind.     And  God  saw  that  it  was  good. 
And  the  evening  and  the  morning  were  the  third 
day.     And  God  said  :    Let  there  be  lights  made  in 
the  firmament  of  heaven,  to  divide  the  day  and  the 
night,  and  let  them  be  for  signs,    and  for  seasons, 
and  for  days  and  years:  to  shine  in  the  firmament 
of  heaven,  and  to  give  light  upon  the  earth.  ^  And 
it  was  so  done.     And  God  made  two  great  lights ;  a 
greater  light  to  rule  the  day,  and  a  lesser  light  to 
rule  the  night  5  and  stars.      And  he  set  them  in  the 
firmament' of  heaven,  to  shine  upon  the  earth.     And 
to  rule  the    day   and    the    night,    and    to   divine 
the  light  and  the  darkness,     And  God  saw  that  i 
was  good.      And  the  evening  and  morning  were 
the  fourth  day.     God  also  said:     Let  the  waters 
bring  forth  the  creeping  creature  having  life,  and 
the  fowl  that  may  fly  over  the  earth  under  the  firma- 
ment of  heaven .    And  God  created  the  great  whales, 
and  every  living   and    moving  creature,   which  the 
waters  brought  forth,  according  to  their  kinds,  and 
every  winged  fowl  according  to  its  kind.     And  God 
saw  that  it  was  good.     And  he  blessed  them,  say- 
ing: Increase  and   multiply,    and  fill  the  waters  of 
the  sea:  and  let  the  birds  be  multiplied   upon  the 
earth.      And  the  evening  and   morning   were  the 
fifth  day.     And  God  said:   Let  the  earth  bring  forth 
the  living  creature  in  its  kind,  cattle,   and  creeping 
things,  and  beasts  of  the   earth   according  to  tneir 
kiuds;  and  it  was  so  done.  And  God  made  the  beasts 
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306  OFFICE  BEFORE  MASS 

of  the  earth  according  to  their  kinds,  and  cattle,  and 
every  thing  that  creepeth  on  the  earth  after  its  kind. 
And  God  saw  that  it  was  good.     And  he  said :  Let 
us  make  man  to  our  image  and  likeness,  and  let  him 
have  dominion  over  the  fishes  of  the  sea,  and  the 
fowls  of  the  air,  and  the  beasts,  and  the  whole 
earth,  and  every  creeping  creature  that  moveth  up. 
on  the  earth.    And  God  created  man  to  his  own 
image:  to  the  image  of  God  he  created  him  :  male 
and  female  he  created  them.      And  God  blessed 
them,  saying:   Increase  and  multiply,  and  fill  the 
earth,  and  subdue  it,  and  rule  over  the  fishes  of  the 
sea,  and  the  fowls  of  the  air,  and  all  living  creatures 
that  move  upon  the  earth.     And  God  said :    Behold 
J  have  given  you  every  herb  bearing  seed  upon  the 
earth,  and  all  trees  that  have  in  themselves  seed  of 
their  own  kind,   to  be  your  meat :  and  to  all  beasts 
of  the  earth,  and  to  every  fowl  of  the  air,  and  to  all 
that  move  upon  the  earth,  and  wherein  there  is  life, 
that  you  may  have  to  feed  upon.     And  it  was  so 
done.     And  God  saw  all   the  things  that  he  had 
made,  and  they  were  very  good.      And  the  evening 
and  morning  were  the  sixth  day.     (Chap,  ii.)  So  the 
heavens  and  earth  were  finished,  and  all  the  fur- 
niture of  them.     And  on  the  seventh  day  God  ended 
his  work  which  he  had  made:  and  he  rested  on  the 
seventh  day  from  all  his  work  which  he  had  done. 
Pr.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 

Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Ecus,  qui.—O  God,  who  didst  won- 
derfully  create  man,  and  redeem  him  by  a  still 
greater  wonder:  grant  us,  we  beseech  thee,  such 
strength  of  mind  and  reason  against  all  the  allure- 
ments of  sin,  that  we  may  deserve  to  obtain  eternal 
joys.  Thro*.  R.  Amen. 

II.  PROPHECY.  Gen.  v.  31,  vi.  vii.  viii.  18. 
—And  Noe,  when  he  was  five  hundred  years  old, 
begot  Sem,  Cham,  and  Japheth.  (Chap,  vi,)  And 


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after  that  men  began  to  be  multiplied  upon  the 
earth,  and   daughters  were  born  to  them.      The 
sons  of  God  seeing  the  daughters  of  men,  that  they 
were  fair,  took  to  themselves  wives  of  all,  which 
they  chose.     And  God  said:    My  spirit  shall  not  re- 
main in  man  for  ever,  because  he  is  flesh :  and  his 
days  shall  be  one  hundred  and  twenty  years.     Now 
giants  were  upon  the  earth  in  those  days.      For  after 
the  sons  of  God  went  in  to  the  daughters  of  men, 
and    they    brought   forth  children,    these   are  the 
mighty  men  of  old,  men  of  renown.     And  God  see- 
ing that  the  wickedness  of  men  was  great  on  the 
earth,    and  that  all  the  thought  of  their  heart  was 
bent  upon  evil  at  all  times,  it  repented  him  that  he 
had  made  man  on  the  earth.  Aad  being  touched  in* 
wardly  with  sorrow  of  heart,  he  said  :    I  will  destroy 
man,   whom  I  have  created,  from  the  face  of  the 
earth,  from  man  even  to  beasts,  from  the  creeping 
thing  even  to  the  fowls  of  the  air,  for  it  repenteth 
me  that  I  have  made  them.      But  Noe  found  grace 
before  the  Lord.      These   are  the  generations  of 
-  Noe:  Noe  was  a  just  and  perfect  man  in  his  geae- 
ration,  he  walked  with  God.      And  he  begot  three 
sons,  Sem,  Cham,  and  Japheth.     And  the  earth  was 
corrupted  before  God,  and  was  filled  with  iuiquity. 
And  when  God  had  seen  that  the  earth   was  cor. 
rupted  (for  all  flesh  had  corrupted  its  way  upon  the    • 
earth)  he  said  to  Noe:  The  end  of  all  flesh  is  come 
before  me,  and  the  earth  is  filled  with  iniquity  thro* 
them,  and  I  will  destroy  them  with  the  earth.  Make 
theean  ark  of  timber  planks:  thou  shall  make  little 
rooms  in  the  ark,   and  thou  shall  pitch  it  within  and 
without.    And  thus  shalt  thou  make  it.    The  length 
of  the  ark  shall   be   three    hundred    cubits:    the 
breadth  of  it  fifty  cubits,  and  the  height  of  it  thirty 
cubits.     Thou  shalt  make  a  window  in  the  ark,  and 
in  a  cubit  shalt  thou  finish  the  top  of  it:  and  the 
door  of  the  ark  shalt  thou  set  in  the  side :  with  low- 


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er,  middle  chambers,    and   third  stones  shalt  thou 
make  it.     Behold  1  will   bring  the  waters  of  a  great 
flood  upon  the  earth,  to  destroy  all  flesh,  wherein  is 
the  breath  of  life,  under  heaven.     All   things  that 
are  in   the  earth  shall   be   consumed.     And  I  will 
establish  my  covenant   with  thee :   And  thou  shalt 
enter  into  the  ark,  thou  and  thy  sons,   and  thy  wife, 
and  the  wives  of  thy  sons  with  thee.     And  of  every 
living  creature  of  all  flesh,  thou  shalt  hring  two  of 
a  sort  into  the  ark,  that  they  may  live  with  thee;  of 
the  male   sex,  and  the  female.  Of  fowls  according 
to  their  kind,  and  of  beasts  in  their  kind,  and  of 
every  thing  that  creepeth  on  the  earth  according  to 
its  kind :  two  of  every   sort  shall  go  in  with  thee, 
that  they  may  live.     Thou  shalt  take  unto  thee  of 
all  food,  that  may    be  eaten,  and  thou   shalt  lay  it 
up  with  thee :    and  it  shall  be  food  for  thee  and 
them.     And   Noe  did  all  things  which  God  com- 
manded him.     (Chap,  vii.)  And  he  was  six  hundred 
years  old,  when  the  waters  of  the  flood  overflowed 
the  earth.     All  the  fountains  of  the  great  deep  were 
broken    up,    and  the  flood  gates  of  heaven  were 
opened.     And  the  rain  fell  upon  the  earth  forty  days 
and  forty  nights.     In   the  self-same   day  Noe,  and 
Sem,  and  Cham,  and  japheth,  his  sons:    his  wife, 
and  the  three  wives  of  his  sons  with  them,  went  in- 
to the  ark  :  they  and   every  beast  according  to  its 
kind,    and  all  the  cattle  in   their  kind,  and  every 
thing  that  nioveth  upon  the   earth  according  to  its 
kind,  and  e.ery  fowl  according  to  its  kind,  all  birds, 
and  all  that  fly.     And  the  ark'was  carried  upon  the 
waters.     And  the  waters  prevailed  beyond  measure 
upon  the  earth:  and  all   the  high  mountains  under 
the  whole  heaven    was  covered.      The  water  was 
fifteen  cubits  higher  than  the  mountains,  which  it 
covered.     And  all  flesh   was  destroyed  that  Amoved 
upon  the  earth,  both  of  fowl,  and  of  cattle,  and  of 
beasts,  and  of  all  creeping  things  tint  creep  upon 


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the  earth :  and  Noe  only  remained,  and  they  that 
were  with  him  in  the  ark.  And  the  waters  prevailed 
upon  the  earth  a  hundred  and  fifty  days.  (Chap,  viii.) 
And  God  remembered  Noe,  and  all  the  living 
creatures,  and  all  the  cattle  which  were  with  him  in 
the  ark,  and  brought  a  wind  upon  the  earth,  and 
the  waters  were  abated.  The  fountains  also  of  the 
deep,  and  the  flood-gates  of  heaven,  were  shut  up, 
and  the  rain  from  heaven  was  restrained.  And  the 
waters  returned  from  off  the  earth,  going  and  com- 
ing: and  they  began  to  be  abated  after  a  hundred 
and  fifty  days.  And  after  that  forty  days  were  pas- 
sed, Noe  opening  the  window  of  the  ark  which  he 
had  made,  sent  forth  a  raven  ;  which  went  forth, 
and  did  not  return  until  the  waters  were  dried  upon 
the  earth.  He  sent  forth  a  also  dove  after  him,  to 
see  if  the  waters  had  now  ceased  upon  the  face  of 
the  earth.  But  she  not  finding  \\here  her  foot 
might  rest,  returned  to  him  into  the  ark:  for  the 
waters  were  upon  the  whole  earth  :  and  he  put 
forth  his  hand,  and  caught  her,  and  brought  her 
into  the  ark.  And  having  waited  yet  seven  other 
days,  he  again  sent  forth  the  dove  out  of  the  ark. 
And  she  came  to  him  in  the  evening,  carrying  a 
bough  of  an  olive-tree,  with  green  leaves,  in  her 
mouth.  Noe  therefore  understood  that  the  waters 
were  ceased  upon  the  earth.  And  he  stayed  yet 
other  seven  days:  and  he  sent  forth  the  dove,  which 
returned  not  any  more  unto  him.  And  God  spoke 
to  Noe,  saying:  Go  out  of  the  ark,  thou  and  thy  wife, 
thy  sous,  and  the  wives  ot  thy  sons  with  thee.  Aill 
living  things  that  are  with  thee  of  all  tiesh,  as  well  in 
fowls,  as  in  beasts,  and  all  creeping  things  thai  creep 
upon  the  earih,  bring  out  with  thee,  and  go  ye 
upon  the  earth  :  increase  and  multiply  upon  it.  So 
Noe  went  out,  he  and  his  sons,  his  wife,  and  the 
wives  of  his  sons  with  him  :  and  all  living  things,  and 
cattle,  and  creeping  things  that  creep  upon  the 
earth,  according  to  their  kinds,  went  out  of  the 


3*°  OFFICE  BEFORE  MASS 

ark.  And  Noe  built  an  altar  unto  the  Lords  and 
taking  of  all  cattle  and  fowls  that  were  clean,  offered 
holocausts  upon  the  altar.  And  the  Lord  smelled  a 
sweet  savour.  > 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus,  incommutubilis.  —  O  Godf 
whose  power  is  unchangeable,  and  whose  light  ne- 
ver faileth,  mercifully  regard  the  wonderful  sacra* 
ment  of  thy  whole  Church,  and  by  an  effect  of  thy 
perpetual  providence,  accomplish  in  peace  the  work 
of  human  salvation :  and  let  the  whole  world  expe- 
rience and  see,  that  what  was  now  fallen,  is  raised 
up  again;  what  was  old,  is  become  new;  and  that 
all  things  are  again  settled  by  him  who  gave  them 
their  first  being,  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  thy  Son. 
Wholiverh.  R.  Amen. 

III.  PROPHECY.  Gen.  xxiu— In  those  days;  God 
tempted  Abraham,  and  said  to  him:  Abraham,  Abra- 
ham. And  he  answered :  Here  I  am.  He  said  to  him : 
Take  thy  only  begotten  Son  Isaac,  whom  thou  lovest, 
and  go  into  the  land  of  vision  ;  and  there  thou  shalt 
offer  him  for  an  holocaust  upon  one  of  the  moun- 
tains which  I  will  shew  thee.  So  Abraham  rising 
up  in  the  night,  saddled  his  ass :  and  took  with  him 
two  young  men,  and  Isaac  his  son  ;  and  when  he 
had  cut  wood  for  the  holocaust,  he  went  his  way  to 
the  place  which  God  had  commanded  him.  And  on 
the  third  day,  lifting  up  his  eyes,  he  saw  the  place 
afar  off  And  he  said  to  his  young  men:  Stay  you 
here  with  the  ass:  I  and  the  boy  will  go  with  speed 
as  far  as  yonder,  and  after  we  have  worshipped, 
will  return  to  you.  And  he  took  the  wood  for  the 
holocaust,  and  laid  it  upon  Isaac  his  son ;  and  he 
himself  carried  in  his  hands  fire  and  a  sword.  And 
as  they  two  went  on  together,  Isaac  said  to  his  fa- 
ther:  My  father.  And  he  answered:  What  wilt 
thou,  son?  Behold,  saith  he,  fire  and  wood; 


OX  HOLY-SATURDAY,  -II 

where  is  the  Victim  for  the  holocaust  ?  And  A  bra- 
ham  said:  God  will  provide  himself  a  victim  for  a 
holocaust,  my  son.  So  they  went  on  together : 
and  they  came  to  the  place  which  God  had  shewed 
him,  where  he  built  an  altar,  and  laid  the  wood  in 
order  upon  it:  and  when  he  had  bound  Isaac  his 
son,  he  laid  him  on  the  altar  upon  the  pile  of 
wood.  And  he  put  forth  his  hand,  and  took  the 
sword  to  sacrifice  his  son.  And  behold  an  angel  of 
the  Lord  from  heaven  called  to  him,  saying  :  Abra- 
ham, Abraham.  And  he  answered  ;  Here  I  am. 
And  he  said  to  him  :  Lay  not  thy  hand  upon  the 
boy,  neither  do  thou  any  thing  to  him :  now  I 
know  that  thou  fearest  God,  and  hast  not  spared 
thy  only  begotten  son  for  my  sake.  Abraham  lifted 
up  his  eyes,  and  saw  behind  his  back  a  ram  amongst 
the  briers,  sticking  fast  by  the  horns,  which  he  took 
and  offered  for  a  holocaust  instead  of  his  son.  And 
he  called  the  name  of  that  place,  The  Lord  seeth. 
Whereupon,  even  to  this  day,  it  is  said:  In  the 
mountain  the  Lord  will  see.  And  the  angel  of  the 
Lord  called  to  Abraham  a  second  time  from  heaven, 
saying:  By  my  own  self  have  I  sworn,  saith  the 
Lord :  because  thou  hast  done  this  thing,  and  hast 
not  spared  thy  only  begotten  son  for  my  sake:  I 
will  bless  thee,  and  I  will  multiply  thy  seed  as  the 
stars  of  heaven,  and  as  the  sand  that  is  by  the  sea 
shore :  thy  seed  shall  possess  the  gates  of  their 
enemies.  And  in  thy  seed  shall  all  the  nations  of 
the  earth  be  blessed,  because  thou  hast  obeyed  my 
voice.  Abraham  returned  to  his  young  men,  and 
they  weni  to  Bersabee  together,  and  he  dwelt  there, 

iV.  Let  us  pray.     Dtac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
tiubd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus,  fidclium — O  God,  the  sove- 
reign Father  of  the  faithful,  who  throughout  the 
whole  world  multipliest  the  children  of  the  promise 
by  the  grace  of  thy  adoption,  and  makest  thy  servant 


3**  OFFICE  BEFORE  MASS 

Abraham,  according  to  thy  oath,  the  father  of  all 
nations  by  this  paschal  sacrament ;  grant  that  thy 
people  may  worthily  receive  the  grace  of  thy  voca- 
tion. Thro1.  %Jl.  Amen. 

IV.  PROPHECY.  Exod.  xiv.  24.— /»  those  days; 
It  came  to  pass  in  the  morning  watch,  and  behold 
the  Lord  looking  upon  the  Egyptian  army  through 
the  pillar  of  fire,  and  of  the  cloud,  slew  their  host ; 
and  overthrew  the  wheels  of  the  chariots,  and 
they  were  carried  into  the  deep.  And  the  Egypti- 
ans said;  Let  us  flee  from  Israel:  for  the  Lord 
fighteth  for  them  against  us.  And  the  Lord  said  to 
Moses :  Stretch  forth  thine  hand  over  the  sea,  that 
the  waters  may  come  again  upon  the  Egyptians, 
upon  their  chariots  and  horsemen.  And  when  Mo- 
ses had  stretched  forth  his  hand  towards  the  sea, 
it  returned  at  the  first  break  of  day  to  the  former 
place:  and  as  the  Egyptians  wrere  fleeing  away,  the 
waters  came  upon  them,  and  the  Lord  shut  them  up 
in  the  middle  of  the  waves.  And  the  waters  return- 
ed,  and  covered  the  chariots  and  the  horsemen  of 
all  the  army  of  Pharao,  who  had  come  into  the  sea 
after  them,  neither  did  there  so  much  as  one  of 
them  remain.  But  the  children  of  Israel  marched 
through  the  midst  of  the  sea  upon  dry  land,  and  the 
waters  were  to  them  as  a  wall  on  the  right  hand  and 
on  the  left :  and  the  Lord  delivered  Israel  in  that 
day  out  of  the  hands  of  the  Egyptians.  And  they 
saw  the  Egyptians  dead  upon  the  sea- shore,  and  the 
mighty  hand  that  the  Lord  had  used  against  them ; 
and  the  people  feared  the  Lord,  and  they  believed 
the  Lord,  and  Moses  his  servant.  Then  Moses  and 
the  children  of  Israel  sung  this  canticle  to  the  Lord, 
and  said  : 

TRACT.  Erod.  xv. — Let  us  sing  to  the  Lord  : 
for  he  hath  wonderfully  displayed  his  glory;  he 
hath  thrown  both  the  horse  and  the  rider  into  the 
sea.  He  hath  been  rny  help  and  my  protector  and 


ON  HOLY-SATURDAY.  313 

Saviour.  V.  He  is  my  God  :  to  him  will  I  give 
glory  :  he  is  the  God  of  my  father,  and  I  will  extol 
him.  V.  lie  is  the  Lord  that  destroyeth  wars :  his 
name  is  the  Lord* 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 

Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus  cujus. — O  God,  whose  anci- 
ent miracles  we  see  renewed  in  our  days :  whilst,  by 
the  water  of  regeneration,  thou  performest,  for  the 
salvation  of  the  Gentiles,  that  which  by  the  power 
of  thy  right  hand  thou  didst  for  the  deliverance  of 
one  people  from  the  Egyptian  persecution  :  grant 
that  all  the  nations  of  the  world  may  become  the 
children  of  Abraham,  and  partake  of  the  dignity  of 
the  people  of  Israel.  Thro'.  It.  Amen. 

V.  PROPHECY,  /s.  liv.lv. —This  is  the  in- 
heritance  of  theservants  of  the  Lord,  and  their  jus- 
tice  with  me,  saith  the  Lord.  All  you  that 
thirst  come  to  the  water;  and  you  that  have  no 
money,  make  haste,  buy,  and  eat :  come  ye,  buy 
wine  and  milk  without  money,  and  without  any 
price.  Why  do  you  spend  money  for  that  which 
is  not  bread,  and  your  labour  for  that  which  doth 
not  satisfy  you  ?  Hearken  diligently  to  me,  and 
eat  that  which  is  good,  and  your  soul  shall  be  de- 
lighted in  fatness.  Incline  your  ear,  and  come  to 
me:  hear,  and  your  soul  shall  live,  and  I  will  make 
an  everlasting  covenant  with  you,  the  faithful  mer- 
cies of  David.  Behold  I  have  given  him  for  a  wit- 
ness to  the  people,  for  a  leader  and  a  master  to  the 
Gentiles.  Behold  thou  shalt  call  a  nation,  which 
thou  knewest  not :  and  the  nations  that  knew  not 
thee  shall  run  to  thee,  because  of  the  Lord  thy 
God,  and  for  the  Holy  One  of  Israel,  for  ht  "hath 
glorified  thee.  Seek  ye  the  Lord  while  he  may  be 
found,  call  upon  -him  while  he  is  near.  Let 
the  wicked  forsake  Jiis  way,  and  the  unjust  man  his 
thoughts,  and  let  him  return  to  the  Lord,  a-id  he 
D  d 


3*4  OFFICE  BEEORE  MASS 

\vill  have  mercy  on  him,  and  to  our  God :  for  he  is 
bountiful  to  forgive.  Tor  my  thoughts  are  not  your 
thoughts,  nor  your  ways  my  ways,  saith  the  Lord. 
For  as  the  heavens  are  exalted  above  the  earth,  so 
are  my  ways  exalted  above  your  ways,  and  my 
thoughts  above  your  thoughts.  And  as  the  rain  and 
the  snow  come  down  from  heaven,  and  return  no 
more  thither,  but  soak  the  earth,  and  water  it, 
and  make  it  to  spring,  and  give  seed  to  the  sower, 
and  bread  to  the  eater:  so  shall  my  word  be,  which 
shall  go  forth  from  my  mouth ;  it  shall  not  return 
to  me  void,  but  it  shall  do  whatever  I  please,  and 
shall  prosper  in  the  things  for  which  I  seat  it,  saith 
the  Lord  A  tm igh  ty. 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.    Dcac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd,  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Omnipotent — O  almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  multiply,  for  the  honour  of  thy  name, 
what  thou  didst  promise  to  the  faith  of  our  fore- 
fathers: and  increase,  by  thy  sacred  adoption,  the 
children  of  that  promise:  that  what  the  ancient 
saints  doubted  not  would  come  to  pass,  thy  church 
may  now  find  in  great  part  accomplished.  Thro'. 
JR.  Amen. 

VI.  PROPHECY.  Baruch  iii.  9.— Hear,  O  Israel, 
the  commandments  of  life  :  give  ear,  that  thou 
mayest  learn  wisdom.  How  happeueth  it,  O  Israel, 
that  thou  art  in  thy  enemies  land  ?  Thou  art  grown 
old  in  a  strange  country,  thou  arf  defiled  with  the 
dead  ;  thou  art  counted  with  them  that  go  down 
into  hell,  Thou  hast  forsaken  the  fountain  of  wis- 
dom :  for  if  thou  hadst  walked  in  the  way  of  God, 
thou  surely  hadst  dwelt  in  peace  for  ever.  Learn 
where  is  wisdom,  where  is  strength,  where  is  under- 
standing, that  thou  mayest  know  also  where  i« 
length  of  days  and  life,  where  is  the  light  of  the 
eyes,  and  peace.  Who  hath  found  out  Her  place  ? 
and  who  hath  gone  in  to  her  treasures  ?  Where  are 


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the  princes  of  the  nations,  and  they  that  rule  over 
the  beasts  that  are  upon  the  earth  ?  That  take  their 
pastime  with  the  birds  of  the  air ;  that  hoard  up  sil. 
ver  and  gold,  wherein  men  trust,  and  there  is  no 
end  of  their  getting  ?  who  work  in  silver  and  are  so- 
licitous, and  their  works  are  unsearchable  ?  They 
are  cut  off,  and  are  gone  down  to  hell,  and  others 
are  risen  up  in  their  place.  Young  men  have  seen 
the  light,  and  dwelt  upon  the  earth:  but  the  way 
of  knowledge  they  have  not  known,  nor  have  they 
understood  the  paths  thereof,  neither  have  their 
children  received  it,  it  is  far  from  their  face.  It 
hath  not  been  heard  of  in  the  land  of  Chanaan,  nei- 
ther had  it  been  seen  in  Theman.  The  children 
ofAgciralso,  that  search  after  wisdom,  that  is  of 
the  earth,  the  merchants  of  Merrha,  and  of  The- 
man, and  the  tellers  of  fables,  and  searchers  of  pru- 
dence and  understanding:  but  the  way  of  wisdom 
they  have  not  known,  neither  have  they  remembered 
her  paths.  O  Israel,  how  great  is  the  house  of  God, 
and  how  vast  is  the  place  of  his  possession  !  It  is 
great  and  hath  no  end:  it  is  high  and  immense. 
There  were  the  giants,  those  renowned  men  that 
were  from  the  beginning,  of  great  stature,  expert  in 
war.  The  Lord  chose  not  them,  neither  did  they 
find  the  way  of  knowledge  :  therefore  did  they  pe- 
rish. And  because  they  had  not  wisdom,  they  pe- 
rished through  their  folly.  Who  hath  gone  up  into 
heaven,  rnd  taken  her,  and  brought  her  down  from 
the  clouds?  Who  hath  passed  over  the  sea,  and 
found  her,  and  brought  her  preferably  to  chosen 
gold  ?  There  is  none  that  is  able  to  know  her  ways, 
nor  that  can  search  out  her  paths  :  But  he  that 
knoweth  all  things,  knoweth  her,  and  hath  found 
her  out  with  his  understanding:  he  that  prepared 
the  earth  for  evermore,  and  filled  it  with  cattle  and 
four-footed  beasts;  he  that  sendeth  forth  light,  and 
it  goeth ;  and  hath  called  it,  and  it  obeyed  him  with 
Dda 


3f6  OFFICE  BEFORE  MASS 

trembling.  And  the  stars  have  given  light  in  their 
watches,  and  rejoiced :  they  were  called,  and  they 
said:  Here  we  are:  and  with  cheerfulness  they 
have  shined  forth  to  him  that  made  them.  This  is 
our  God,  and  there  shall  no  other  be  accounted  of 
in  comparison  of  him.  He  found  out  all  the  ways 
of  knowledge,  and  gave  it  to  Jacob  his  servant,  and 
to  Israel  his  beloved.  Afterwards  he  was  seen  upon 
earth,  and  conversed  with  men. 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
tiubd.   Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  continu- 
ally multipliest  thy  church  by  the  vocation  of  the 
Gentiles;  mercifully  grant  thy  perpetual  protection 
to  those  whom  thou  washest  with  the  water  of  bap- 
tism. Thro'.  R.  Amen. 

VII.  PROPHECY.  Ezech.  xxxvii.  — -  In  those 
days :  ^The  hand  of  the  Lord  was  upon  me,  and 
brougfit  me  forth  in  the  spirit  of  the  Lord :  and  set 
me  down  in  the  midst  of  a  plain  that  was  full  of  bones. 
And  he  led  me  about  through  them  on  every  side : 
now  they  were  very  many  upon  the  face  of  the  plain, 
and  they  were  exceeding  dry.  And  he  said  to  me  : 
Son  of  man,  dost  thou  think  these  bones  shall  live  ? 
And  I  answered:  O  Lord  God,  thou  knowest.  And 
he  said  to  me:  Prophesy  concerning  these  bones; 
and  say  to  them:  Ye  dry  bones,  hear  the  word  of 
the  Lord.  Thus  saith  the  Lord  God  to  these 
bones  :  Behold,  I  will  send  spirit  into  you,  and  will 
cause  flesh  to  grow  over  you,  and  will  cover  you 
with  skin  :  and  I  will  give  you  spirit,  and  you  shall 
live,  and  you  shall  know  that  1  am  the  Lord.  And 
I  prophesied  as  he  had  commanded  me :  and  as 
1  prophesied  there  was  a  noise,  and  behold  a 
commotion :  and  the  bones  came  together,  each 
one  to  its  joint.  And  I  saw,  and  behold  the  sinews 
and  the  flesh  came  up  upon  them  ;  and  the  skin  was 
stretched  out  over  them,  but  there  was  no  spiw  in 


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them.  And  he  said  to  me  :  Prophesy  to  the  spirit, 
prophesy,  O  Son  of  man,  and  say  to  the  spirit: 
Thus  saith  the  Lord  God  :  Come,  spirit,  from  the 
four  winds,  and  blow  upon  these  slain,  and  let 
them  live  again.  And  I  prophesied  as  he  had  com- 
manded me:  and  the  spirit  came  into  them,  and 
they  lived  ;  and  they  stood  upon  their  feet,  an  ex- 
ceeding  great  army.  And  he  said  to  me:  Son  of 
man,  atl  these  bones  are  the 'house  of  Israel  :  they 
say:  Our  bones  are  dried  up,  and  our  hope  is  lost, 
and  we  are  cut  off.  Therefore  prophesy,  and  say 
to  them  :  Thus  saith  the  Lord  God:  Behold,  I  will 
open  your  graves,  and  will  bring  you  out  of  your  se- 
pulchres,  O  my  people ;  and  will  bring  you  into  the 
land  of  Israel.  And  you  shall  know  triat  I  am  the 
Lord,  when  I  shall  have  optned  your  sepulchres, 
and  shall  have  brought  you  out  of  your  graves,  O  my 
people,  and  shall  have  put  my  spirit  in  you,  and 
you  shall  live,  and  I  shall  make  you  rest  upon  your 
own  land,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

IV.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus,  qul  nos.—O  God,  \vho  by  the 
scriptures  of  both  testaments  teachest  us  to  celebrate 
the  Paschal  sacrament:  give  us  such  a  sense  of  thy 
mercv,  that,  by  receiving  thy  present  favours,  we 
may  have  a  firm  hope  of  thy  future  blessings.  Thro*. 
K.  Amen. 

VIII.  PROPHECY.  Is-,  iv.— In  that  day  seven 
women  shall  take  hold  of  one  man,  saying:  \Ve 
will  eat  our  own  bread,  and  wear  our  own  apparel : 
only  let  us  be  called  by  thy  name,  take  away  our 
reproach.  In  that  day  the  bud  of  the  Lord  shall  be 
in  magnificence  and  glory,  and  the  fruit  of  the  earth 
shall  be  high,  and  a  great  joy  to  them  that  have 
escaped  of  Israel.  And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that 
everv  one  that  shall  be  left  in  Sion,  and  that  shall  re- 
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318  OFFICE  BEFORE  MASS 

main  in  Jerusalem,  shall  be  called  holy,  every  one 
that  is  written  in  life  in  Jerusalem.  If  the  Lord 
shall  wash  away  the  filth  of  the  daughters  of'Sion, 
and  shall  wash  away  the  blood  of  Jerusalem  out  of 
the  midst  thereof)  by  the  spirit  of  judgment,  and  by 
the  spirit  of  burning.  And  the  Lord  will  create 
upon  every  place  of  mount  Sion,  and  where  he  is 
called  upon,  a  cloud  by  day,  and  a  smoke  and  the 
brightness  of  a  flaming  fire  in  the  night:  for  over  all 
the  glory  shall  be  a  protection.  And  there  shall  be 
a  tabernacle  for  a  shade  in  the  day-time  from  the 
heat,  and  for  a  security,  and  covert  from  the  whirl* 
wind,  and  from  rain. 

TRACT.  Is.  v. — My  beloved  had  a  vineyard  on 
a  high  and  fruitful  place.  V.  He  fenced  it  in,  and 
digged  it  about,  and  planted  it  with  the  choicest 
vines,  and  built  a  tower  in  the  midst  of  it.  V.  And 
he  sunk  in  it  a  wine-press:  for  the  vineyard  of  the 
Lord  of  hosts  is  the  house  of  Israel. 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
SubcL  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus,  qui.  —  O  God,  who  by  the 
mouths  of  the  holy  prophets  hast  declared,  that 
thro'  the  whole  extent  of  thy  empire  it  is  thou  that 
sowest  the  good  seed,  and  improvest  the  choicest 
branches  that  are  found  in  all  the  children  of  thy 
church  •,  grant  to  thy  people,  who  are  called  by  the 
names  of  vineyards  and  corn,  that  they  may  root 
out  all  thorns  and  briers,  and  bring  forth  good  fruit 
in  plenty.  Thro'.  JR.  Amen. 

IX.  PROPHECY.     Exod.rii.-~In  those  days: 
The  Lord  said  to  Moses  and  Aaron,  &c    as  in  the 
II  Lesson  of  the  Mass  of  the  Presanctified,  p.  281. 
Pr.  Let\is  pray.    Deac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Omnipotcns. — O  almighty  and  eter. 
nal  God,  who  art  wonderful  in  the  performance  of 


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all  thy  works :  let  thy  servants,  whom  tbou  hast  re. 
deemed,  understand,  that  the  creation  of  the  world 
in  the  beginning  was  not  a  more  excellent  work, 
than  the  sacrificing  of  Christ  our  passover  at  the  tad 
of  the  world.  Who  with  thee,  &c.  R.  Amen. 

X.  PROPHECY.  Jonas  iii.— In  those  days:  The 
word  of  the  Lord  came  to  Jonas,  &c.  as  in  the  Les- 
son on  Monday  in  Passion-Week,  p.  212. 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.     Deac.    Let  us  kneel  down. 

Subd.  Stand  up  again. 

PRAYER.  Dcus,  gui. — O  God,  who  hast  unit- 
ed the  several  nations  of  the  Gentiles  in  the  profes- 
sion of  thy  name:  give  us  both  a  will  and  a  power 
to  obey  thy  commands:  that  all  thy  people,  who 
a-re  called  to  eternity,  may  have  the  same  faith  in 
their  minds,  and  piety  in  their  actions.  Thro'. 
R.  A  mm. 

XI.  PROPHECY,  Devt.  xxxi.22.— Iw  those  days: 
Moses  wrote  a  canticle,  and   taught  it  the  children 
of  Israel.     And  the  Lord  commanded  Josue,   the 
son  of  Nun,  and  said:  Take  courage,    and  be  va- 
liant: for  thou  shall  bring  the  children  of  Israel  into 
the  land  which  I  have  promised,  and  I  will  be  with 
thee.     Therefore  after  Moses  had  wrote  the  words 
of  this  law  in  a  volume,  and  finished  it :  he  com- 
manded the  Levites,  who  carried  the  ark  of  the  co- 
venant of  the  Lord,  saying;  Take  this  book,  and 
put  it  in  the  side  of  the  ark  of  the  covenant  of  the 
Lord  your  God :  that  it  may  be  there  for  a  testimo- 
ny against  thee.     For  I  know  thy  obstinacy,  and 
thy  most  stiff  neck.      While  I  am  yet  living,  and 
going  in  with  you,  you  have  always  been  rebellious 

..linst  the  Lord:  how  much  more  when  I  shall  be 
dead  ?  Gather  unto  me  all  the  ancients  of  your 
tribes,  and  your  doctors,  and  I  will  speak  these 
words  in  their  hearing,  and  \viii  call  heaven  and 
earth  to  witness  against  them.  For  I  ki:<  w  tb^t, 
after  my  death,  you  will  do  wickedly,  an;!  will 


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quickly  turn  aside  from  the  way  that  I  have  com* 
manded  you:  and  evils  shall  come  upon  you  in  the 
latter  times,  when  you  shall  do  evil  in  the  sight  of 
the  Lord,  to  provoke  him  by  the  works  of  your 
hands.  Moses  therefore  spoke,  in  the  hearing  of 
the  assembly  of  Israel,  the  words  of  this  canticle, 
and  finished  it  even  to  the  end. 

TRACT,  Deut.  xxxii. — Give  ear,  O  ye  heavens, 
and  I  will  speak:  and  let  the  earth  hear  the  words 
of  my  mouth,  V.  Let  what  I  say  be  looked  for  like 
rain:  and  let  my  words  drop  down  like  dew.  V. 
Like  the  shower  upon  the  grass,  and  the  snow  upon 
the  dry  herb:  for  1  will  call  upon  the  name  of  the 
Lord.  V.  Publish  the  greatness  of  our  God:  he  is 
God  ;  his  works  are  perfect,  and  all  his  ways  are 
justice.  V.  God  is  faithful,  in  whom  there  is  no 
iniquity  :  the  Lord  is  just  ajul  holy. 

Pr.  Let  us  pray.     J}tac.  Let  us  kneel  down. 
Subd.  StaiuLup  again. 

PRAYER.  Deus,  ukitudo.  ~  O  God,  who 
raisest  the  humble,  and  givest  strength  to  the  righ- 
teous ;  and  who  by  thy  holy  servant  Moses,  wast 
pleased  so  to  instruct  thy  people  by  the  singing  of 
the  sacred  canticle,  that  the  repetition  of  the  law 
might  be  also  our  direction  :  shew  thy  power  to  all 
the  multitude  of  Gentiles  justified  by  thee,  and,  by 
mitigating  thy  terrors  grant  them  joy:  that  all 
their  sins  being  pardoned  by  thee,  the  threatened 
vengeance  may  contribute  to  their  salvation.  Thro*. 
11.  Amen. 

XII.  PROPHECY.  Van.  iii.  —  In  those  days  : 
King  Nabuchodonosor  made  a  statue  of  gold,  of 
sixty  cubits  high,  and  six  cubits  broad,  and  he  set  it 
up  in  the  plain  of  Dura,  in  the  province  of  Babylon, 
Then  Nabuchodonosor  the  king  sent  to  call  toge- 
ther the  nobles,  the  magistrates,  and  the  judges,  the 
captains,  the  rulers,  and  governors,  and  all  the 
chief  men  of  the  provinces,  to  come  to  the  dedica- 


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tion  of  the  statue  which  king  Nabuchodonosor  had 
set  up.  Then  the  nobles,  the  magistrates,  and  the 
judges,  the  captains,  and  rulers,  and  the  great  men 
that  were  placed  in  authority,  and  all  the  princes  of 
the  provinces,  were  gathered  together  to  come  to 
the  dedication  of  the  statue  which  king  Nabucho. 
donosor  had  set  up.  And  they  stood  before  the 
statue  which  king  Nabuchodonosor  had  set  up. 
Then  a  herald  cried  with  a  strong  voice:  To  you  it 
is  commanded,  O  nations,  tribes,  and  languages  : 
that  iu  the  hour  that  you  shall  hear  the  sound  of  the 
trumpet,  and  of  the  flute,  and  of  the  harp,  of  the 
sackbtit  and  of  the  psaltery,  and  of  the  symphony, 
and  of  all  kind  of  music;  ye  fall  down  and  adore  the 
golden  statue  which  king  Nabuchodonosor  hath  set 
wp.  But  if  any  man  shall  not  fall  down  and  adore, 
be  shall  the  same  hour  be  cast  into  a  furnace  of 
burning  fire.  Upon  this,  therefore,  at  the  time 
\vhen  all  the  people  heard  the  sound  of  the  trumpet, 
the  flute  and  the  harp,  of  the  sackbur,  and  the 
psalten',  of  the  symphony,  and  of  all  kind  of  ma- 
sic  j  all  the  nations,  tribes  and  languages,  fell  down 
and  adored  the  golden  statue,  which  king  Nabucho. 
donosor  had  set  up.  And  presently,  at  that  very 
time  some  Chaldeans  came  and  accused  the  Jews: 
and  said  to  king  Nabuchodonosor;  O  king,  live 
forever:  Thou,  O  king,  hast  made  a  decree,  that 
every  man  that  shall  hear  the  sound  of  the  trumpet, 
the  flute,  and  the  harp,  of  the  sackbut,  and  the 
psaltery,  of  the  symphony,  and  of  all  kind  of  music: 
shall  prostrate  himself,  and  adore  the  golden  status: 
and  that  if  any  man  shall  not  fall  down  and  adore,  he 
should  be  cast  into  a  furnace  of  burning  fire.  Now 
there  are  certain  Jews,  whom  thou  hast  set  over  the 
works  of  the  province  of  Babylon,  Sidrach,  Misach. 
andAbednago:  these  men,  O  king,  have  slighted 
thy  decree  ;  they  worship  not  thy  gods,  nor  do 
they  adore  the  golden  statue  which  thou  hast  set 


3^2       ,  OFFICE  BEFORE  MASS. 

up.  Then  Nabuchodonosor,  in  fury  and  in  wrath, 
commanded  that  Sidrach,  Misach,  and  Abednago* 
should  be  brought,  who  immediately  were  brought 
before  the  king.  And  Nabuchodonosor  the  king 
spoke  to  them,  and  said:  Is  it  true,  O  Sidrach, 
Misach,  and  Abednago,  that  you  do  not  worship 
my  gods,  nor  adore  the  golden 'statue  that  I  have  set 
up  ?  Now  therefore  if  you  be  ready,  at  what  hour 
soever  you  shall  hear  thesound  of  the  trumpet,  flutey 
harp,  sackbut,  and  psaltery,  and  symphony,  and  of 
alt  kind  of  music,  prostrate  yourselves,  and  adore  the 
statue  which  I  have  made :  but  if  you-  do  not  adore, 
you  shall  be  cast  in  the  same  hour  into  the  furnace  of 
burning  fire :  and  who  is  the  God  that  shall  deliver 
you  out  of  my  hand  ?  Sidrach,  Misach,  and  Abed, 
nago  answered  and  said  to  king  Nabrfchodonosor  8 
We  have  no  occasion  to  answer  thee  concerning 
this  matter.  For  behold  our  God,  whom  we  wor- 
ship, is  able  to  save  us  from  the  furnace  of  burning 
fire,  and  to  deliver  us  out  of  thy  hands,  O  king* 
But  if  he  will  not,  be  it  known  to  thee,  O  king,  that 
\ve  will  not  worship  thy  gods,  nor  adore  the  golden 
statue  which  thou  hast  set  up.  Then  was  Nabucho- 
doncsor  filled  with  fury:  and  the  countenance  of 
his  face  was  changed  against  Sidrach,  Misach,  and 
Abednago,  and  he  commanded  that  the  furnace 
should  be  heated  seven  times  more  than  it  had  been 
accustomed  to  be  heated.  And  he  commanded  the 
strongest  men  that  were  in  his  army,  to  bind  the 
feet  of  Sidiach,  Misach,  and  Abednago,  and  to 
cast  them  into  the  furnace  of  burning  fire.  And 
immediately  these  men  were  bound  and  were  cast 
into  the  furnace  of  burning  fire,  with  their  coats  and 
their  caps,  and  their  shoes,  and  their  garments.  Foe 
the  king's  commandment  was  urgent,  and  the  fur* 
nace  was  heated  exceedingly.  And  the  flame  of 
the  fire  slew  those  men  that  had  cast  in  Sidrach* 
Misach,  and  Abednago.  But  these  three  men,  that 


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is,  Sidrach,  Misnch,  and  Abednago,  fell  down 
bound  in  the  midst  of  the  furnace  of  burning  fire. 
And  they  walked  in  the  midst  of  the  flame  praising 
God,  and  blessing  the  Lord. 

Let  us  pray.     Omnipotcns. 

O  Almighty  and  eternal  God,  the  only  hope  of 
the  world,  vt  ho,  by  the  voice  of  thy  prophets, 
hast  manifested  the  mysteries  of  this  present  time  : 
graciously  increase  the  desires  of  thy  people;  since 
none  of  the  faithful  can  advance  in  any  virtue  with- 
out thy  inspiration.  Thro1.  R.  Amen. 

The  BLESSING  of  the  FONT. 
When  the  Celebrant  goes  towards  the  Font,  is  said  the 
TRACT.  As  the  hart  panteth  after  the  fountains 
of  water  j  so  my  soul  panteth  after  thee,  O  God. 
V,  My  soul  hath  thirsted  after  the  living  God  :  when 
shall  I  come  and  appear  before  the  face  of  God  ? 
V.  My  tears  have  been  my  bread  day  and  night, 
while  they  say  to  me  every  day:  Where  is  now  thy 
God? 

The  Lord  be  with  you.     R.  And  with  thy  spirit. 
Let  us  pray.     Concede. 

GRANT,  we   beseech  thee,    O  Almighty  God, 
that  we,  who  celebrate  the  gift  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  may,  by  the  inspiration  of  heaven,  earnestly 
thirst  after  the  fountain  of  life.     Thro'. ...  in  unity 
of  the  sn me. 

When  the  Priest  comes  to  the  Font. 
The  Lord  be  with  you.     It.  And  with  thy  spirit. 

O  Almighty  and  eternal  God,  be  present  at  these 
mysteries,  be  present  at  these  sacraments  of 
thy  great  goodness :  and  send  forth  the  spirit  of  thy 
adoption  to  regenerate  the  new  people,  whom  the 
font  of  baptism  bringeth  forth;  that  what  is  to  be 
done  by  the  ministry  of  us  thy  servants,  may  be  ac- 
.romplished  by  the  effect  of  thy  power.  Thro', 
jt.  Amen. 

y.  The  Lord  be  with  you.     R.  And  with  thy 


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spirit.  V.  Raise  up  your  hearts  on  high.  R.  We 
have  them  raised  up  to  the  Lord.  V.  Let  ns  give 
thanks  to  the  Lord  our  God.  R.  It  is  meet  and  j  ust. 

JT  is  truly  meet  ^  and  j  ust,  right  and  available  to 
salvation,  to  give  thee  thanks  always,  and  in  all 
places,  O  holy  Lord,  almighty  Father,  and  eternal 
God  :  who,  by  thy  invisible  power,  dost  wonder- 
fully produce  the  effects  of  thy  sacraments :  and, 
though  we  are  unworthy  to  administer  such  great 
mysteries,  yet,  as  thou  dost  not  abandon  the  gifts  of 
thy  grace,  so  thou  inclinest  the  ears  of  thy  goodness 
even  to  our  prayers.  O  God,  whose  spirit  in  the 
very  beginning  of  the  world  moved  upon  the  wa- 
ters; that  even  then  the  nature  of  water  might  re- 
ceive the  virtue  of  sanctification  :  O  God,  who  by 
water  didst  wash  away  the  crimes  of  a  guilty  world, 
and  by  the  overflowing  of  the  deluge  didst  give  us  a 
figure  of  regeneration  ;  that  one  and  the  same  ele- 
ment might,  in  a  mystery,  be  the  end  of  vice,  and 
the  origin  of  virtue:  look  down,  O  Lord,  on  thy 
Church,  and  multiply  in  her  thy  regenerations,  who 
by  the  streams  of  thy  abundant  grace,  fillest  thy  city 
with  joy,  and  openest  the  fonts  of  baptism  all  over 
the  world  for  the  renewal  of  the  Gentiles ;  that  by 
the  command  of  thy  majesty  it  may  receive  the 
grace  of  thy  Son  from  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Here  the  Priest  divides  the  Water  in  the  form  of  a 

Cross. 

Who,  by  a  secret  mixture  of  his  divine  virtue, 
may  render  this  water  fruitful  for  the  regeneration 
of  men :  to  the  end  that  those,  who  are  to  be  sanc- 
tified in  the  immaculate  womb  of  this  divine  font, 
and  are  to  be  born  again  new  creatures,  may  come 
forth  a  heavenly  offspring  ;  and  that  all,  however 
distinguished  by  age  in  time,  or  sex  in  body,  may 
be  brought  forth  to  the  same  infancy  by  grace,  their 
spiritual  mother.  Therefore  may  all  unclean  spi- 
rits, by  thy  command,  O  Lord,  depart  from  hence : 


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may  all  the  malice  of  diabolical  wiles  be  entirely 
banished  ;  may  no  power  of  the  enemy  prevail  here  : 
let  him  not  fly  about  to  lay  his  snares ;  let  him  not 
creep  in  by  his  secret  artifices  5  let  him  not  corrupt 
with  his  infection. 

Here  fie  touches  the  Water  with  his  Hand. 

May  this  holy  and  innocent  creature  be  free  from 
all  assaults  of  the  enemy,  and  purified  by  the  de- 
struction of  all  his  malice.  May  it  become  a  living 
fountain,  a  regenerating  water,  a  purifying  stream  ; 
that  all  those,  that  are  to  be  washed  in  this  saving 
bath,  may  obtain,  by  the  efficacy  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
the  grace  of  a  perfect  purification. 
Here  he  makes  the  Sign  of  the  Cross  thrice  over  the 
Font,  saying  '• 

Wherefore  [bless  thee,  O  creature  of  water,  by 
the  living  »J«  God,  by  the  true  »J»  God,  by  the 
holy  »J"  God-,  by  that  God,  who  in  the  beginning 
separated  thee  by  his  word  from  the  dry  land,  and 
whose  spirit  moved  upon  thee. 

[Here  he  dirides  the\Va\.erwith  /WsHand,  and  throws 
somtofit  out  toward*  the.  four  quarters  of  the  World.'} 
Who  made  thee  flow  from  the  fountain  of  para, 
disr,  and  commanded  thee  to  water  the  whole  earth 
with  thy  four  rivers.  Who  changing  thy  bitterness 
in  the  desert  into  sweetness,  made  thee  fit  to  drink  ; 
and  produced  thee  out  of  a  rock  to  quench  the  thirst 
of  the  people.  I  •%•  bless  thee  also  by  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  his  only  Son:  who,  in  Cana-of  Gali- 
lee, changed  thee  into  wine,  by  a  wonderful  miracle 
of  his  power.  Who  walked  upon  thee  dry-foot, 
and  was  baptized  in  the*  by  John  in  the  Jordan. 
Who  made  thee  flow  out  of  his  side,  together  with, 
his  blood,  anJ  commanded  his  disciples,  that  such 
as  believed  should  be  baptized  in  thee,  saying  ;  Go, 
teach  all  nations,  baptizing  them  in  the  name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
E  e 


326  OFFICE  ON  HOLY  SATURDAY. 

Do  thou,  O  almighty  God,  mercifully  assist  us, 
who  obsenre  this  commandment :  do  thou  gracious- 
ly inspire  us. 

Here  breathing  thrice  upon  ike  Water  in  Form  of  a 
Cross,  he  says : 

Do  thou  with  thy  mouth  hless  these  clear  waters ; 
that,  besides  their  natural  virtue  of  cleansing  the 
body,  they  may  also  prove  effectual  for  purifying 
the  soul. 

Then  he  sinks  the  paschal  Candle  into  the  Water 
three  different  times,  saying  each  time : 

May  the  virtue  of  the  Holy  Ghost  descend  into 
all  the  water  of  this  font. 

Then  breathing  thrice  on  the  Water,  he  goes  on, 

And  make  the  whole  substance  of  this  water  fruit- 
ful, and  capable  of  bringing  to  a  new  life. 
Here  the  Paschal  Candle  is  taken  out  of  the  Water, 
and  the  Priest  goes  on, 

Here  may  the  stains  of  all  sin  be  washed  out  : 
here  may  human  nature,  created  to  thy  image,  and 
reformed  to  the  honour  of  its  author,  be  cleansed 
from  the  filth  of  the  old  man  :  that  all  who  receive 
this  sacrament  of  regeneration,  may  be  born  again 
new  childen  of  trne  innocence.  Thro' — who  is  to 
come  to  judge  the  living  and  the  dead,  and  the 
world  by  fire.  R.  Amen. 
Here  Mc People  are  sprinkled  with  the  blessed  Water, 

and  some  is  taken  away  by  the  Ministers  to  distribute 

to  the  people  for  use  in  their  houses.   Atlerwurds  tits 

Oil  of  the  Catechumens  is  poured  in,  in  the  Form. 

of  a  Gross,  the  Priest  saying, 
May  this   font  be  sanctified   and   made  fruitful 
by  the  oil  of  salvation  for  such  as  are  to  be  born 
anew  in  it,  unto  life  everlasting.     R,  Amen. 
Then  he  pours  the  Chrism  into  it,  saying, 

May  this  infusion  of  the  chrism  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost  the  Comforter,  be 
performed  in  the  name  of  the  Holy  Trinity.  Ji* 
Amen. 


MASS  ON  HOLY-SATURDAY.  327 

Lastly  he  pours  the  Oil  and  Chrism  into  the  Water  in 

the  Form  of  a  Cross,  saying, 
May  this  mixture  of  the  chrism  of  sanctification, 
and  of  the  oil  of  salvation,  and  of  the  water  of  bap- 
tism, be  performed  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  and 
of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost.     R  Amen. 
After  Blessing  the  Font,   the  Priest,  with  his  Mini- 
sters, lie  prostrate  before  the  altar ,  and  all  the  rest 
kneel  while  the  Litany  [see  Rogation- Days]    is 
sung  by  two  Chanters  in  the  middle  of  the  Choir, 
repeating  the  same  words  after   them,  to  Christe 
exaudi  nos  inclusively.     Whilst  Kyiie  and  Christe 
eleison  are    each    alternately    sung  3   times,    the 
Priest,  with  his  Ministers    in  their  proper    vest- 
ments, begin  Mass  saying  the  Ps.  Judica,  &c.  p. 
xv.   but  no  Introit.     At  intoning  the  Gloria  in  ex- 
celsis  the  bells  are  rung,  and  continue  to  ring  till 
it  is  finished. 

COLLECT.  Dcus.— O  God,  who  enlightenest 
this  most  sacred  night  by  the  glory  of  the  resurrection 
of  the  Lord ;  preserve  in  the  new  offspring  of  thy 
family  the  spirit  of  adoption  thou  hast  given  them; 
that,  being  renewed  in  body  and  soul,  they  may 
serve  thee  with  purity  of  heart.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Co/os.  iii.  i.  4.— Brethren:  If  you 
be  risen  with  Christ,  seek  the  things  that  are  above'; 
where  Christ  is  sitting  at  the  right- band  of  God: 
mind  the  things  that  are  above,  not  the  things  that 
are  On  earth.  For  you  are  dead;  and  your  life  is 
hid  with  Christ  in  God.  When  Christ  shall  ap- 
pear, who  is  your  life;  then  you  also  shall  appear 
with  him  in  glory.  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Praise  the  Lord,  for  V.  Conjitemini  Domi- 
he  is  good  :  and  his  mer-  no,  quoniam  bonus :  quo- 
cy  endureth  for  ever.  niam  in  saculum  miseri* 

cordia  ejus. 

TRACT.     Ps.  cxvi.—  Praise  the  Lord  all  ye  na- 
tions -9   join  in  his  praise,    all  ye  people.     V.  For 
Ee  2 


328  MASS,  &C.  ON  HOLY-SATURDAY. 

his  mercy  is  confirmed  upou  usj  and  the  truth  of 
the  Lord  remaineth  for  ever. 

(00#pel+  Matt,  xxviii.  i.  7.— In  the  end  of 
the  Sabbath, .  when  it  began  to  dawn  towards  the 
first  day  of  the  week,  came  Mary  Magdalen  and  the 
other  Mary  to  the  sepulchre.  And  behold  there 
was  a  great  earthquake.  For  an  angel  of  the  Lord 
descended  from  heaven  ;  and  coming,  rolled  back 
the  stone,  and  sat  upon  it;  and  his  countenance  was 
as  lightning,  and  his  raiment  as  snow.  And  for  fear 
of  him,  the  guards  were  struck  with  terror,  and  be- 
came as  dead  men.  And  the  angel  answering,  said 
to  the  women :  Fear  not  you ;  for  I  know  that  you 
seek  Jesus  who  was  crucified.  He  is  not  here,  for 
he  is  risen,  as  he  said.  Come,  and  see  the  place 
where  the  Lord  was  laid.  And  going  quickly,  tell 
ye  his  disciples  that  he  is  risen  ;  and  behold  he  will 
go  before  you  into  Galilee:  there  you  shall  see  him. 
Lo  I  have  foretold  it  to  you. 

The  Offertory  is  omitted  ;  but  Oblations  of  the  Host 
and  Chalice  arc  made,  as  in  the  Ordinary,  p.  xxiii. 
SECRET.     Receive,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
thrt  prayers  of  thy  people,  together  with  the  offer- 
ing of  these  Hosts,  that  what  is  consecrated  by  these 
paschal  mysteries,  may  by  the  help  of  thy  grace  avail 
us  to  eternal  life.     Thro'. 

For  the  Communicantes  cmr/Hanc  igitur  see  p.  331  : 
the  rent  as  in  the  Ordinary.  There  are  neither 
Agnus  Dei,  Comm.  nor  P.  Comm.  but  as  soon  as 
the  Priest  aas  taken  the  last  Ablution,  are  begun 

VESPERS. 

Ant  ft.  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
Ps.  cxvi- 

P Raise  the  Lord,  all     T    Audate    Dominum, 
ye  nations ;  *  praise     JLrf  omnes  gentes  ;  *lau- 
him  all  ye  people.  date  eum  omnes  populi. 

For  his  mercy  is  con-  Quoniam  confirmata 
firmed  upon  us;  *  and  est  super  nos  misericor- 


EASTER-SUNDAY*  329 

the  truth  of  the  Lord  re-  dia  ejus;  *  et  veritas  Do« 
maineth  for  ever.  Glo-  mini  manct  in  feternuiu 
ry,  &:c.  Gloria,  &c. 

Anth.  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  Alleluia 
Anthem  at  the  Magnificat 

Tn  the  evening  of  the  VtspereautemSabbpti 
Sabbath  which  dawns  on  qiue  lucesci;  ia  prima 
the  first  day  of  the  week,  Sabbati,  venit  Maria 
came  Mary  Magdalen,  Magdalene,  etalteraMa- 
and  another  Mary,  to  see  ria,  videre  sepulchrum. 
the  sepulchre.  Allel.  Alleluia. 
At  the  Magnificat  [see  p.  279]  the  altar  is  fumed  with. 
incense  as  usual. 

PRAYER.   Spirit  urn.  —  Pour  forth  on  us,  O  Lord, 
the  spirit  of  thy  love  ;  that   those  whom   thou   has 
filled  with  the  paschal  sacrament,  may,  by  thy  good- 
ness, live  in  perfect  concord.     Thro'. 
Theti  a/I  concludes  as  at  Mass,  except  that  Alleluia* 

Alleluia,  is  added  to  lie,  missa  est,  and  Deo  gra- 

tias;  and  these  Alleluias  arc  continued  till  Low- 

Sunday. 


A  LTHOUGH  times  and  seasons  in  general  subsist  not 
JLV.  but  by  the  order,  and  for  the  glory  of  God,  yet  the 
Church,  when  she  speaks  of  the  festival  of  the  Refurret* 
tion9  calls  it  in  every  part  of  the  Divine  Office,  ^by  way  of 
pre-eminence)  the  da)  the  Lord  hath  made.  All  the  days  of 
the  mortal  life  of  Jesus,  previous  to  that  of  his  Resurrection^ 
were,  according  to  St.  Paul,  the  days  of  his  Humiliation^ 
•whereas  this  is  properly  called  the  day  of  his  gbi\i  since  it 
was  by  his  resurrection  that  the  broad  seal  of  heaven  was 
affixed  to  his  doctrine,  —  his  other  miracles  confirmed,  —  his 
mission  proved,  —  and  all  his  labours  crowned.  Hence 
arises  the  Church's  joy  on  thist  the  greatest  other  festivals. 

1NTROIT.     Ps.  cxxxviii. 

I  Have  risen,  and  am  as       'DE^ur/wi      et      ailhuc 
yet  with  van,  Al.leL:     -*1   tccuvt  sum,  Alleluia  : 


33°  EASTER-SUNDAY. 

thou  hast  stretched  forth  posnisti  super  me  manwn 
thy  hand  to  me  Allel. ;  tuam,  Alleluia:  mirabilis 
thy  knowledge  is  become  facta  est  sclent ia  tua,  At- 
wonderful,  Aljel.  A I  lei,  kluia,  Alleluia. 

Ps     Lord,   thou  hast        Ps.    Domine,    probasti 
tried  me,  and  known  me:     me,  et  cognvvistfme:  tu 
thou  hast  knewn  my  sit-     cognovisti  sessionemmeam, 
ting  down  and  my  up-     et  rcsurrectionem  meam. 
rising.     V,  Glory.  V,  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who,  on  this 
day,  by  thy  only  begotten  Son's  victory  over  death, 
didst  open  for  us  a  passage  to  eternity  $  grant  that 
our  prayers,  which  thy  preventing  grace  inspirelh, 
may,  by  thy  help,  become  effectual.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  v.  7.  8.— Brethren :  Purge 
out  the  old  leaven,  that  you  may  be  a  new  paste,  as 
you  are  unleavened,  for  Christ,  our  pasch,  is  sa- 
crificed* Therefore  let  us  feast,  not  with  the  okl 
leaven,  nor  with  the  leaven  of  malice  and  wicked- 
ness, but  with  the  unleavened  bread  of  sincerity  and 
truth. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxvii  —-This  is  the  day  the  Lord  hath 
made:  come  let  us  exult  and  rejoice  thereon.  V. 
Praise  the  Lord,  for  he  is  good :  and  his  mercy  en- 
dureth  forever:  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  F.  Christ  him- 
self is  become  our  paschal  sacrifice.  Alleluia. 

The  PROSE. 

T7ICTIM-S  Paschali  laudes  immolent  Chn;;- 
V  tiani : 

Agnus  redemit  oves:  Christus  innocens  Patri  re- 
con  ciliavit  peccatores. 

More  et  vita  duello ;  conflixere  mirando:  dux  vi« 
tae  mortuus,  regnat  vivus. 

Die  nobis,  Maria,  cjuid  vidisti  in  via  ? 

Sepulchrum  Christi  viventis,  et  gloriain  vidi  resur- 
gentis. 

AngeHcos  testes  sudaritirn  et  vestes. 


TheJZarth  (re/nfi/ed  fi/id nw.w/twf, 


EASTER-SUNDAY.  33! 

Surrexit  Christus,  spes  mea :  precedet  vos  in  Ga- 
lilceam. 

Scimus  Christum  surrexisse  a  mortuus  vere;  ta 
n obis,  victor  Rex,  miserere.    Amen.     Alleluia. 
jf//e  foregoing  Prose,  as  well  as  the  following  Com- 

mimicantes  and  Hancigitur,  are  continued  in  every 

Mats  till  Saturday  next  inclusively. 

C?D0p0l.     Mark  xvi.   i.  7, At  that  time: 

Mary  Magdalen,  and  Mary  the  mother  of  James  and 
Salome,  brought  sweet  spices,  that  coming  they 
might  anoint  Jesus.  And  very  early  in  the  morning 
the  first  day  of  the  week,  they  come  to  the  sepulchre, 
the  sun  being  now  risen.  And  they  said  one  10  ano- 
ther: Who  shall  roll  us  back  the  stone  from  the 
door  of  the  sepulchre  ?  And  looking,  they  saw 
the  stone  rolled  back.  For  it  was  very  great.  And 
entering  into  the  sepulchre,  they  saw  a  young  man 
sitting  on  the  right  side  cloathed  with  a  white  robe  : 
and  they  were  astonished.  Who  saith  to  them :  Be 
not  affrighted :  you  seek  Jesustof  Nazareth,  who  was 
crucified :  he  is  risen,  he  is  not  here,  behold  the 
place  where  they  laid  him.  But  go,  tell  his  disciples 
and  Peter  that  he  goeth  before  you  into  Galilee: 
there  you  shall  see  him,  as  he  told  you.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  P.s.  ixxv.—  The  earth  trembled,  and 
\vas  silent,  while  God  arose  to  judgment.  Allel. 

SKCRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  prayers  of  thy  people,  together  with  the  offer- 
ings of  these  hosts,  that  what  is  consecrated  by  these 
paschal  mysteries,  may,  by  tV,e  help  of  thy  grace, 
avail  us  to  eternal  life.  Thro*. 

COMMUNICANTES.  Being  united  in  communion, 
and  celebrating  this  most  sacred  day  of  the  resurrec- 
tion of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  according  to  the  flesh  : 
moreover,  honouring  the  memory  of,  £c.  an  in  the 
Ordinary,  pagt  xxxiv. 

HANC  IGITUR.  We  therefore  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  graciously  to  accept  this  oblaiiort  of  thy  ser- 


332  EASTER-MONDAY. 

vants,  and  of  thy  whole  family,  which  we  offer  t® 
thee  also,  for  all  those  thou  hast  vouchsafed  to  rege. 
nerate,  by  water  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  granting  them 
the  remission  of  #11  their  sins.  Dispose  our  days  in 
peace,  &c.  as  p.  xxxv. 

COMM.  i  Cor.  v.  —  Christ  himself  is  become  our 
paschal  sacrifice,  Alleluia  :  therefore  let  us  feast  on 
the  unleavened  bread  of  sincerity  and  truth.  Alle- 
luia, Alleluia,  Alleluia, 

P.  COMM.  Spirit  urn  nobis  —  Pour  forth  on  us, 
O  Lord,  the  spirit  of  thy  love;  that  those  whom 
thou  hast  filled  with  the  paschal  sacrament,  may,  by 
thy  goodness,  live  in  perfect  concord.  Thro*  —  in 
the  unity  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 


INTR01T.  Exod.  xiii. 

THE  Lord  hath  TNtrod-uxit  vos  Dominus 
brought  you  into  a  •*  in  ttrra-mflucntemlac 
land  flowing  with  milk  et  mel,  Alleluia  :  et  ut  lex 
and  honey,  Alleluia;  let  Domini  simper  sit  in  ore 
then  the  law  of  the  vestro,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
Lord  be  ever  in  your  Ps.  Confitemini  Domino, 
mouth,Alleluia,Alleluia.  et  invocate  nomen  ejusi 
Ps.  Praise  the  Lord,  and  annuntiate  inter  Gentes 
call  upon  his  name:  opera  ejus.  V.  Gloria. 
publish  his  works  among  the  Gentiles.  F.  Glory. 

COLLECT,  Veus,  qui.—O  God,  who  by  the 
mystery  of  thr  paschal  solemnity,  hast  bestowed 
remedies  on  the  world  ;  continue,  we  beseech  thee, 
thy  heavenly  blessings  on  thy  people,  that  they  may 
deserve  to  obtain  perfect  liberty,  and  advance  to- 
wards  eternal  life.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Actsx.  37.  43.—  JH  tliose  days  :  Peter 
standing  up  in  the  midst  of  the  people  said  :  You 
know  the  word  that  hath  been  published  through^ 
alljudea;  for  it  began  from  Galilee,  after  tlie  bap- 


•  .ich  John  preacher,  -eth :  how 

Go1  anointed  him  with  the  Holy  Gho>t,  and  with 

nt  about  doing  good,  and  healing 

.it  were  o  by  the  devil,  for  God  was 

m.     An  i  ;-s  of  all  things  that  he 

the  land  of  the  v.-hom 

they  killed,  hanging  him  upon  a  tree.     Him  God 

day,  and  gave  him  to  be  made 

N  • :  10   >.  .    :..r   •  -.  .•;   -, 

us,  who  did  eat  aad 
liim  after  he  rose  again  from  the  dead* 
And  he  commanded  us  to  preach  to  the  people,  and 
to  testify  that  it  appointed  by  God  to 

be  judge  of  the  living  and  oft1  To  him  all 

the  prophc  ;imony,  that  thro1  his  name  all 

who  believe  in  him. 

GRAD.  -  H  the  day  the  Lord 

:  come  let  i:s  exult  and  rejoice  thereon. 
T.  Let  Is:  ±i  the  Lord  is  gooc 

reth  for  ever.     Alleluia, 
An    angel   of  the         V.     Angehts     DC 
Lord     descended     from     dcscendit  dc  c«fo,  ct  «c« 
heaven,    and  coming  to     c&tcns    r^tWnf    lapidtm, 
the     monument,    rolled     tt  sedebat  super  ettt.i. 

3ne,  and  sat  up : 

COGpCL     I-:--   xxiv.   13.    :;. —  A    that  time i 
Two  of  the  disci ^.le>  of  Jesus  went  the  same  d^ 
town  which  was  iix:y  iV.r'.or:^5Tro:v.  Jerusalem,  nam- 
ed E :  n  m  m  :  h ey  tal  ked  togeiher  of  a  1 
things  which  h.  ~d.     And  it  came  to  pass, 
that  v.  each  other, 

d  went  with  the  r. 

their  I  held  tl^at  they  should  not  know  him. 

And   :  .ourses 

that  >ou  hold  one  with  anot 
And  the  one  of  th- 

d  to  him  :  a  only 

a   *;:..  .  and  hast  not  k.no\%Q  the 


334  .  EASTER.MONDAY. 

things  that  have  been  done  there  in  these  days  >  Te 
whom  he  said :  What  things  ?  And  they  said  :  Con- 
cerning Jesus  of  Nazareth,  who  was  a  prophet, 
mighty  in  work  and  word  before  God  and  all  the 
people.  And  how  our  chief  priests  and  rulers  de- 
jivered  him  to  be  condemned  to  death,  and  cruci- 
fied. But  we  hoped  that  it  was  he  that  should 
have  redeemed  Israel :  and  now,  besides  all  this,  to» 
clay  is  the  third  day  since  these  things  were  done. 
Yea  and  certain  women  also  of  our  company,  af- 
frighted us,  who  before  it  was  light,  were  at  the 
sepulchre.  And  not  finding  his  body,  came,  say- 
ing that  they  had  also  seen  a  vision  of  angels,  who 
said  that  he  is  alive.  And  some  of  our  people  went 
to  the  sepulchre:  and  found  it  so  as  the  women  had 
said,  but  him  they  found  not.  Then  he  said  to  them : 
O  foolish,  and  slow  of  heart  to  believe  in  all  things 
which  the  prophets  have  spoken.  Ought  not  Christ 
to  have  suffered  these  things,  and  so  to  enter  into  his 
glory?  And  beginning  at  Moses  and  all  the  pro- 
phets, he  expounded  to  them  in  all  the  scriptures 
the  things  that  were  concerning  him.  And  they 
drew  nigh  to  the  town  whither  they  were  going :  and 
he  made  as  though  he  would  go  farther.  But  they 
constrained  him,  saying;  Stay  with  us,  because  it 
is  towards  evening,  and  the  day  is  now  far  spent* 
And  he  went  in  with  them.  And  it  came  to  pass, 
whilst  lie  was  at  table  with  them,  he  took  bread  ; 
and  blessed  and  brake,  and  gave  to  them.  And 
their  eyes  were  opened,  and  they  knew  him:  and 
he  vanished  out  of  their  sight.  And  they  said  one  to 
the  other;  Was  not  our  hearts  burning  within  us, 
whilst  he  spoke  in  the  way,  and  opened  to  us  the 
scriptures?  And  rising  up  the  same  hour  they  went 
back  to  Jerusalem:  and  they  found  the  eleven  ga- 
thered toether,  and  those  that  were  with  them. 
Saying,  the  Lord  is  risen  indeed,  and  hath  appeared 
to  Simen.  And  they  told  what  things  were  doae  in 


EASTER  TUESDAY.-  335 

tV.c\vay:  and  how  they  knew  him  in  the  breaking 
of  bread.  CREDO. 

OFFKRT.  Malt,  xxix — An  angel  of  the  Lord 
came  down  from  heaven,  and  said  to  the  women  : 
lie  whom  you  seek,  is  risen,  as  he  told  you.  Allel. 

SECRET  and  P.  GQM1l.a$yesterd*u,p.  331,  332. 

COMM.  Lukcx\iv. — The  Lord  hath  risen  and 
appeared  to  Peter.  Alleluia. 

EASTER.TUESDAY. 

INTRO1T.  Eccles.  xv.—He  hath  given  them  the 
water  of  wisdom,  Alleluia:  this  wisdom  shall  be 
strengthened  in  them,  and  shall  not  leave  them,  Al- 
leluia: it  shall  raise  them  up  for  ever,  Alleluia. 
Ps.  Give  praise  to  the  Lord,  and  call  upon  his 
name:  publish  his  works  among  the  Gentiles.  V. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui.—O  God,  who  by  a  new 
increase  does  continually  enlarge  thy  Church  :  grant 
that  thy  servants  may  manifest  in  their  lives  the  sa* 
crament  they  have  received  with  faith.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Acts  xiii.  26.  33-— In  those  days  : 
Paul  standing  up,  and  with  his  hand  bespeaking 
silence,  said  :  Brethren,  children  of  the  stock  of  Abra- 
ham, and  whosoever  among  you  fear  God,  to  you 
the  won!  of  this  salvation  is  sent.  For  they  that  in- 
habited Jerusalem,  and  the  rulers  thereof,  not  know- 
ing him,  nor  the  voices  of  the  prophets,  which  are 
read  every  Sabbath,  judging  him  have  fulfilled  them, 
and  finding  no  cause  of  death  in  him,  they  desired 
of  Pilate,  that  they  might  kill  him.  And  when  they 
had  fulfilled  all  things  that  were  written  of  him, 
taking  him  down  from  the  t  ee,  they  laid  him  in  a 
ilrhre  But  God  raided,  him  up  from  the  dead 
the  third  day  :  and  lie  was  seen  for  many  days  by  them 
who  came  up  with  him  from  Galilee  to  Jerusalem, 
v;ho  to  this  present  are  his  witnesses  to  the  people. 
And  we  declare  unto  you  that  the  promise  vuiich 


33$  EASTER-TUESDAY. 

was  made  to  our  fathers,  this  same  God  hath  fulfilled 
to  our  children,  raising  up  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxvii. — This  is  the  day  th«  Lord 
hath  made:  come  let  us  exult  and  rejoice  thereon. 
V.  Let  those  whom  he  hath  rescued  from  the  hand 
of  the  enemy,  and  gathered  from  all  nations  now  say, 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  The  Lord,  who  hung  on  the 
tree  of  the  cross  for  us,  is  risen  from  the  grave.  Al- 
leluia. 

d500p0l4  Luke  xxiv.  36.  47. — At  that  time  : 
Jesus  stood  in  the  midst  of  his  disciples,  and  said  to 
them,  Peace  be  to  you;  it  is  I,  fear  not.  But  they 
being  troubled  and  frighted,  supposed  they  saw  a 
spirit.  And  he  said  to  them:  Why  are  you  trou- 
bled, and  why  do  thoughts  arise  in  your  hearts  ?  See 
my  hands  and  my  feet,  that  it  is  I  myself;  handle  me 
and  see  :  for  a  spirit  hath  not  flesh  and  bones,  as  you 
see  me  to  have.  And  when  he  had  said  this,  he 
shewed  them  his  hands  and  his  feet.  But  while  they 
yet  believed  not  and  wondered  for  joy,  he  said: 
Have  you  here  any  thing  to  eat  ?  And  they  offered 
him  a  piece  of  broiled  fish,  and  a  honey  comb. 
And  when  he  had  eaten  before  them,  taking  the  re- 
mains  he  gave  to  them.  And  he  said  to  them  :  These 
are  the  words  which  I  spoke  to  you  ^whilst  I  was 
yet  with  you,  that  all  things  must  needs  be  ful- 
filled, which  are  written  in  the  law  of  Moses,  and 
in  the  prophets,  and  in  the  psalms,  concerning  me. 
Then  he  opened  their  understanding,  that  they 
might  understand  the  scriptures.  And  he  said  to 
them  :  Thus  it  is  written,  and  thus  it  behoved 
Christ  to  sutler,  and  to  rise  again  from  the  dead  the 
third  day ;  and  that  penance  and  remission  of  sins 
should  be  preached  in  his  name  unto  all  nations.- 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xvii.  The  Lord  thundered  from 
heaven,  and  the  Most  High  sent  forth  his  voice: 
»:id  the  spring  heads  of  the  waters  appeared.  AlleJ. 


WEDNESDAY  IN    EASTER* WEEK..  337 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  prayers  of  the  faithful,  together  with  these  obla- 
tions: that  by  these  duties  of  piety  they  may  obtaitt 
eternal  life.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Colos.  iii.— If  you  are  risen  with  Christ, 
seek  the  things  that  are  above,  where  Christ  is 
sitting  at  the  right  hand  of  God,  Alleluia:  mind  the 
things  that  are  above,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Concede.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  the  virtue  of  the  Paschal  sa- 
crament, which  we  have  received,  may  always  re- 
main in  our  souls.  Thro\ 

WEDNESDAY  IN  EASTER  WEEK. 
INTROIT.  Matt,  xxv.— Come  you  blessed  of  my 
Father,  receive  the  kingdom,  Alleluia:  which  hath 
been  prepared  for  you  from  the  beginning  of  the 
world,  Alleluia,  Aileluja,  Alleluia.  Ps.  Sing  to 
the  Lord  a  new  songj  sing  to  the  Lord  all  the  earth. 
V.  Glory. 

I.  COLLECT.  Dcn*9  qui.—O  God,  who  by  the 
yearly  solemnity  of  the  resurrection  of  our  Lord, 
fillest  us  with  joy  ;  merrifully  grant,  that,  by  these 
temporal  festivals  which  we  celebrate,  we  may  at 
last  come  to  the  possession  of  those  joys  that  are 
eternal.  Thro1. 

The  H.  Collect  till  Saturday  next  is,  either  Ecclesiae 
or  Deus  omnium,  with  their  respective  Secrets  a  fid 
P.  Comms.  pp.  50,  &c. 

LESSON.  Acts  iii.'  13.  19.  —  In  those  days  : 
Peter  opening  his  moutK,  said ;  You  men  of  Israel, 
and  you  who  fear  God,  give  ear.  The  God  of 
Abraham,  and  the  God  of  Isaac,  and  the  God  of 
Jacob,  the  God  of  our  Father?,  hath  glorified  his 
Son  Jesus,  whom  you  indeed  delivered  up,  and  de- 
nied before  the  face  of  Pilate,  when  he  judged  he 
should  be  released.  But  you  denied  the  Holy  One 


338  WEDNESDAY    IN  EASTER-WEEK. 

and  the  Just,  and  desired  a  murderer  to  he  granted 
unto  you.  But  the  Author  of  life  you  killed,  whom 
God  hath  raised  from  the  dead,  of  which  we  are 
witnesses.  Ai^cl  his  name,  through  the  faith  of  his 
name,  hath  made  this  man  strong,  whom  you  have 
seen  and  known  ;  and  the  faith  which  is  by  him, 
hath  given  this  perfect  soundness  in  the  sight  of  you 
all  :  and  now,  brethren,  I  know  that  you  did  it 
through  ignorance,  as  did  also  your  rulers.  But 
those  things  which  God  before  had  shewed  by  the 
mouth  of  all  the  prophets,  that  his  Christ  should 
suffer,  he  hath  so  fulfilled.  Repent  ye  therefore,  and 
be  converted,  that  your  sins  may  be  blotted  out. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxvii.—  This  is  the  day  the  Lord  hath 
made,  come  let  us  exult  and  rejoice  thereon.  V. 
The  right  hand  of  the  Lord  hath  exerted  its  might ; 
the  right  hand  of  the  Lord  hath  raised  me  up,  Al- 
leluia, Alleluia.  F.  The  Lord  is  certainly  risen, 
and  hath  appeared  to  Peter. 

(!?00pCU  Jo/mxxi.  i.  14. — At  that  time:  Jesus 
shewed  himself  again  to  the  disciples  at  the  sea  o* 
Tiberias.  And  he  shewed  himself  after  this  manner. 
There  were  together  Simon  Peter,  and  Thomas  who 
is  called  Didymus,  arid  Nathanael,  who  was  of  Cana 
in  Galilee,  and  the  sons  of  Zebedee,  and  two  others 
of  his  disciples.  Simon  Peter  saith  to  them;  i  go  a 
fishing.  They  say  to  him  :  We  also  come  with  thee. 
And  they  went  forth  and  entered  into  a  ship  ;  and 
that  night  they  caught  nothing.  But  when  the 
morning  was  come,  Jesus  stood  on  the  shore  :  yet 
the  disciples  knevv  not  that  it  was  Jesus.  And  Jesus 
said  to  them:  Children  have  you  any  meat?  They 
answered  him:  No.  He  saith  to  th'em:  Ca.st  the 
net  on  the  right  side  of  the  ship:  and  you  shall  find. 
They  cast  therefore;  and  now  they  are  not  able  to 
draw  it  for  the  multitude  of  fishes.  That  disciple 
jruTefore  whom  Jesus  loved  said  to  Peter :  It  is  the 


THURSDAY  IN  EASTER-WEEK.  339 

Lord.  Simon  Peter,  when  he  heard  that  it  was  the 
Lord,  girt  his  coat  about  him  (for  he  was  naked) 
and  cast  himselt  into  the  sea.  But  the  other  disci- 
ples came  in  the  ship  (for  they  were  not  far  from  the 
land,  but  as  it  were  two  hundred  cubits)  dragging 
the  net  with  fishes.  As  soon  then  as  they  came 
to  land,  they  saw  hot  coals  lying,  and  a  fish  laid 
thereon,  and  bread.  Jesus  saith  to  them  :  Bring 
hither  of  the  fishes  which  you  have  now  caught : 
Simon  Peter  went  up,  and  drew  the  net  to  land,  full 
of  great  fishes,  one  hundred  and  fifty-three.  And 
although  there  were  so  many,  the  net  was  not  bro- 
ken. Jesus  saith  to  them  :  Come,  and  dine.  And 
none  of  them  who  were  at  meat,  durst  ask  him  : 
Who  art  thou  ?  knowing  that  it  was  the  Lord.  And 
Jesus  cometh  and  taketh  bread,  and  giveth  them, 
and  fish  in  like  manner.  This  is  now  the  third  time 
that  Jesus  was  manifested  to  his  disciples,  after  he 
was  risen  from  the  dead.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxvii.— The  Lord  opened  the 
gates  of  heaven,  and  rained  down  Manna  for  them  to 
eat:  he  gave  them  the  bread  of  heaven;  man  hath 
eaten  the  bread  of  augels,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  with  joy  these 
Paschal  sacrifices,  wherewith  thy  Church  is  wonder- 
fully  fed  and  nourished.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Horn,  vi.—  Christ  rising  from  the  dead, 
dieth  no  more,  Alleluia:  death  shall  have  no  more 
any  power  over  him,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

Pi  COMM.  Al>  omni. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that  being  cleansed  from  the  old  leaven, 
the  receiving  thy  venerable  sacrament  may  transform 
us  into  a  new  creature.  Who,  with  the  Father  and 
the  Holy  Ghost,  Uveth,  &c. 

THURSDAY  IN  EASTER  WEEK. 
INTROIT.     Wisd.  x.  —  They  have  ail  together 
praised  thy  victorious  hand,  O  Lord,  Alleluia.    For 
Ffi 


340  THURSDAY  IN   EASTER- WEEK. 

wisdom  hath  opened  the  mouth  of  the  dumb,  andt 
made  eloquent  the  tongues  of  infants,  Allel.  Allel, 
Ps.  Jxxix.  Sing  to  the  Lord  a  new  song,  for  he  hath 
done  wonders.  •F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  gui — OGod,  who  hast  united 
various  nations  in  the  confession  of  thy  name:  grant 
that  they  who  have  been  born  again  by  the  water 
of  baptism,  may  have  the  same  faith  in  their  hearts, 
and  the  same  piety  in  their  actions,  Thro'. 

LESSON,     Acts  viii.    26.   40.  —  In   those  days  ; 
An    angel    of   the   Lord  spoke  to  Philip,  saying  : 
Arise,  go  towards  the  south,  to  the  way  that  goeth, 
down  from  Jerusalem  to  Gaza  ;  this  is  desart.     And 
rising  up  he  went.      And  behold  a  man  of  Ethiopia, 
an  eunuch  of  great  authority  under  Candace  Queen 
of  the  Ethiopians,  who  had  charge  over  all  her  trea- 
sure?, had  come  to  Jerusalem  to  adore.     And  he 
was  returning  sitting  in  his  chariot,    and   reading 
Jsaias  the  prophet.      And   the  spirit  said  to  Philip  : 
Go  near,    and   join  thyself  to  this  chariot.      And 
Philip  running  thither,  heard  him  reading  the  pro- 
phet   Isaias,    and    he    said:     Thinkest    thou   that 
thou    understandest   what   thou  readest  ?     And  he 
said:  And  how  can  I,  unless  some  man  shew  me? 
and  he  desired  Philip  that  he  would  come  up  and  sit 
v/ith  him.     And   the  place  of  the  scripture  which 
he  was  reading  was  this :  4t  He  was  led  as  a  sheep 
to   the  slaughter:  and  like  a  lamb  without  voice 
before  his  shearer,  so  opened  he  not  his.  mouth.     In 
humility,  his  judgment  was  taken  away.     Who  shall 
declare   his  reneration,  for  his  life  shall  be  taken 
from  the  earth  ?"   And  the  eunuch  answering  Philip, 
said :  I  beseech  thee,  of  whom  doth  the  prophet  speak 
this?    of  himself,    or  of  some  other  man?   Then 
Philip  opened  his  mouth,    and  beginning   at  this 
scripture,  preached  to  him  Jesus.     And  as  they  went 
on  their  way,  they  came  to  a  certain  water:  and 
the  eunuch  said  :  See  here  is  water,  what  doth  hia* 


THURSDAY  IN  EASTER-WEEK.  34f 

fler  me  from  being;  baptized?  And  Philip  said  :  If 
thou  believest  with  all  thy  heart,  thou  mayest.  ^  And 
he  answering,  said  :  I  believe  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the 
Son  of  God.  And  he  commanded  the  chariot  to 
stand  still:  and  they  went  down  into  the  water, 
both  Philip  and  the  eunuch,  and  he  bapti/ed  him. 
Arid  when  they  were  come  up  out  of  the  water,  the 
Spirit  of  the  Lord  took  away  Philip,  and  the  eunuch 
saw  him  no  more.  And  lie  went  on  his  way  re- 
joicing.  But  Philip  was  found  in  Azotus,  and  pass- 
ing  through,  he  preached  the  gospel  to  all  the  cities 
till  he  came  to  Cesarea. 

GRAD.  This  is  the  day  the  Lord  hath  made, 
come  let  us  exult,  and  rejoice  thereon.  V.  The 
stone  which  the  builders  rejected,  is  become  the 
chief  corner  stone:  this  was  done  by  the  Lord,  and 
it  was  wonderful  in  our  eyes,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
V.  Christ  is  risen,  who  created  all  things,  and  hath 
shewn  mercy  to  mankind. 

<JD00p0L  John  xx.  ii.  18.—  ^  that  time: 
Mary  stood  at  the  sepulchre  without,  weeping. 
Now  as  she  was  weeping,  she  stooped  down,  and 
looked  into  the  sepulchre  :  and  she  saw  two  angels 
in  white,  sitting,  one  at  the  head,  and  one  at  the 
feet,  where  the  body  of  Jesus  had  been  laid.  They 
say  to  her  :  Woman,  why  weepcst  thou  ?  She  saith 
to  them :  Because  they  have  taken  away  my  Lord, 
and  L  know  not  where  they  have  laid  him.  When 
she  had  thus  said,  she  turned  herself  back,  and 
saw  Jesus  standing;  and  she  knew  not  that  it  was 
Jesus.  Jesus  said  to  her:  Woman,  why  weepest 
thou  ?  whom  seekest  thou  ?  She  thinking  that  it  was 
the  gardener,  saith  to  him:  Sir,  if  thou  hast  taken 
him  hence,  tell  me  where  thou  hast  laid  him:  and  I 
will  lake  him  away.  Jesus  saith  to  her :  Mary.  She 
turning,  saith  to  him:  Rabboni  (which  is  to  say, 
Master.)  Jesus  saith  to  her:  Do  not  touch  me,  for 
J  am  net  yet  ascended  to  my  Father  :  but  co  to  my 
F  £3 


343  FRIDAY  IN  EASTER-WEEK. 

brethren,  and  say  to  them,  I  ascend  to  my  Father, 
and  to  your  Father,  to  my  God  and  your  God.  Mary 
Magdalen  cometh  and  telleth  the  disciples:  I  have 
seen  the  Lord,  and  these  things  he  said  to  me.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Exod.  xiii. — In  the  days  of  your  solem- 
nity, saith  the  Lord,  I  will  bring  you  into  a  land 
flowing  with  milk  and  honey,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Graciously  accept,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  the  offerings  of  thy  people:  that  being  re- 
newed by  the  confession  of  thy  name  and  by  bap- 
tism, they  may  obtain  everlasting  bliss.  Thro'. 

COMM.  i  Peter  ii. — You,  who  are  a  purchased 
people,  publish  his  might,  Alleluia:  It  is  he  who 
hath  called  you  from  darkness  to  his  wonderful  light, 
Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Exaudi, —  Graciously  hear  onr  prayers, 
O  Lord,  that,  by  frequenting  these  sacred  mysteries 
of  our  redemption,  we  may  obtain  the  necessary 
helps  of  this  life,  and  endless  joys  of  the  next.  Thro'. 

FRIDAY  IN  EASTER-WEEK. 

INTROLT.  Ps.  Ixxvii.— The  Lord  hath  brought 
them  forth  in  hope,  Alleluia;  and  the  sea  hath 
covered  their  enemies,  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
Pi-.  My  people,  be  attentive  to  my  law  ;  bend  your 
ear  to  the  words  of  my  mouth.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Omnifoten*.—Q  Almighty  and  Eter- 
nal God,  who  hast  instituted  this  Paschal  mystery 
in  the  covenant  of  the  reconciliation  of  mankind  ; 
assist  us  with  thy  holy  grace,  that  what  we  profess  in 
this  solemnity,  we  may  practice  in  our  lives.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  ii'.  18.  22, — Dear  Brethren  : 
Christ  died  once  for  our  sins,  the  just  for  the  unjust, 
that  he  might  offer  us  to  God,  being  put  to  death 
indeed  in  the  flesh,  but  brought  to  life  by  the  spirit. 
In  which  also  he  came  and  preached  to  those  spirits 
that  were  in  prison:  which  had  been  sometime  in- 
credulous, when  they  waited  for  the  pauencc  of 


FRIDAY  IN  EASTER  WEEK.  343 

God  in  the  days  of  Noe,  when  the  ark  was  a  build- 
ing  :  wherein  a  few,  that  is,  eight  souls  were  saved 
by  water.  VV hereunto  baptism  being  of  the  like 
form,  now  saves  you  also  ;  not  the  putting  away  of 
the  filth  of  the  flesh,  but  the  examination  of  a  good 
conscience  towards  God  by  the  resurrection  of  Jesus 
Christ,  who  is  on  the  right  hand  of  God. 

GRAD.  This  is  the  day  the  Lord  hath  made,  come 
let  us  exult  and  rejoice  thereon.  V.  Blessed  is  he 
who  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord:  he  is  our 
Lord  God,  and  he  hath  shone  upon  us,  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  V.  Publish  it  among  the  Gentiles,  that 
the  Lord  hath  reigned  from  the  cross. 

(BOtfptU  Mutt,  xxviii.  15.  20.— At  that  time  i 
The  eleven  disciples  went  into  Galilee,  u;ider  the 
mountain  where  Jesus  had  appointed  them.  And 
seeing  him  they  adored:  but  some  doubted. 
And  Jesus  coming,  spoke  to  them,  saying:  All 
power  is  given  to  me  in  heaven  and  in  earth.  Go 
ye  therefore  and  teach  ail  nations  :  baptizing  them 
in  the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of 
the  Holy  Ghost.  Teaching  them  to  observe  all 
things  whatsoever  I  have  commanded  you  ;  and  be- 
hold 1  am  with  you  all  days,  even  to  the  consumma* 
tion  of  the  world,  CUEDO. 

OFFERT.  KiW.  xii.— This  dav  shall  be  a  me- 
morable  one  to  you,  Alleluia.  You  shall  keep  it 
a  solemn  festival  to  .the  Lord  throughout  all  your 
generations;  an  everlasting  stated  solemnity.  Allel, 

SECRET.  Mercifully*  accept  this  sacrifice,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  which  we  offer  for  the  re- 
mission  of  their  sins,  \vho  have  been  regenerated; 
and  to  obtain  speedily  the  help  of  thy  grace.  Thro'. 

COMM.  j\lutt.  xxviii. — All  po^er  in  heaven  and 
on  earth  is  given  to  me,  Alleluia:  Go  teach  all  na- 
tions, baptizing  them  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  and 
of  the  Son.  and  of  the  Holy  Gho,t,  Alle1.  Aliel. 

P.  COMM.    iii'.^'n:c. — Look  down,  we  beseech 


344  SATURDAY  IN  EASTER-WEEK, 

thee,  O  Lord,  upon  thy  people:  and  since  thou 
hast  vouchsafed  to  give  them  a  new  life  by  these 
eternal  mysteries,  grant  them  also  pardon  of  their 
temporal  offences.  Thro'. 

SATURDAY  IN  EASTER. WEEK. 

1NTRO1T.  Ps.  civ  —The  Lord  hath  led  forth 
liisx people  in  gladness,  Alleluia;  and  his  chosen 
ones  in  joy,  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Ps.  Praise  the  Lord, 
and  call  upon  his  name :  publish  his  works  among 
the  Gentiles.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Concede.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  with  reverence 
have  celebrated  this  solemnity  of  Easter,  may  hap- 
pily  arrive  at  everlasting  joys.  Thro.* 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  \\. — Dear  Brethren:  Laying 
away  all  malice,  and  all  guile  and  dissimulations, 
and  envies,  and  all  detractions,  as  new-born  babes, 
desire  the  rational  milk  without  guile:  that  there, 
by  you  may  grow  unto  salvation  :  if  so  be  you 
have  tasted  that  the  Lord  is  sweet,  unto  whom 
coming,  as  to  a  living  stone,  rejected  indeed  by 
men,  but  chosen  and  made  honourable  by  God : 
be  you  also  as  living  stones  built  up,  a  spiritual 
house,  a  holy  priesthood,  to  offer  up  spiritual  sa- 
crifices, acceptable  to  God  by  Jesus  Christ.  Where- 
fore  it  is  contained  in  the  scripture:  "  Behold  I  lay 
in  Sion  a  chief  corner-stone,  elect  precious  ;  and  he 
that  shall  believe  in  him,  shall  not  be  confounded." 
To  you,  therefore,  that  believe,  honour:  but  to 
them  that  believe  not,  "the  stone  which  the  builders 
rejected,  the  same  is  made  the  head  of  the  corner  :" 
and  a  stone  of  stumbling  and  a  rock  of  scandal,  to 
them  who  stumble  at  the  word,  neither  do  believe, 
\vhereuntoalso  they  are  set.  But  you  are,  a  chosen 
generation,  a  kinglv  priesthood,  a  holy  nation,  a 
purchased  people;  that  you  may  declare  his  virtues, 
\\ho  hath  called  you  out  of  darkness  into  ins  ad- 


SATURDAY   IN7   EASTER-WEEK.  345 

mirable  light.  "  Who  in  time  past  were  not  a  peo- 
ple; but  are  now  the  people  of  God:  Who  had 
not  obtained  mercy  ;  but  now  have  obtained  mercy. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  This  is  the  day  the  Lord 
hath  made;  come  let  us  exult  and  rejoice  thereon, 
Alleluia.  F.  Praise  the  Lord,  ye  his  servants,  praise 
the  name  of  the  Lord. 

C£>00p£i+  John  xx.  1.9.  —  At  that  time  : 
The  first  day  of  the  week,  Mary  Magdalen  cometh 
early,  while  it  was  yet  dark,  to  the  sepulchre:  and 
she  saw  the  stone  taken  away  from  the  sepulchre. 
She  ran,  therefore,  and  cometh  to  Simon  Peter,  and 
to  the  other  disciple  whom  Jesus  loved,  and  saith  to 
them:  They  have  taken  away  the  Lord  out  of  the 
sepulchre,  and  we  know  not  where  they  have  laid 
him.  Peter  therefore  went  out,  and  that  other  dis* 
ciplc,  and  they  came  to  the  sepulchre.  And  they 
both  ran  together,  and  that  other  disciple  did  over- 
run Peter,  and  came  first  to  the  sepulchre.  And 
when  he  stooped  down,  he  saw  the  linen  cloths 
lying  ;  but  yet  he  went  not  in.  Then  cometh  Si. 
mon  Peter,  following  him,  and  went  into  the  se- 
pulchre, and  saw  the  linen  cloths  lying.  And  the 
napkin,  that  had  been  about  his  head,  not  lying  with 
the  linen  cloths,  but  apart  wrapt  up  into  one  place. 
That  other  disciple  also  went  in,  who  came  first  to 
the  sepulchre  :  and  he  saw,  and  believed ;  for  as  yet 
they  knew  not  the  scripture,  that  he  must  rise  again 
from  the  dead.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  PS.  cxvii. — Blessed  is  he  who  cometh 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord  :  we  have  blessed  you  from 
the  house  of  the  Lord  :  the  Lord  is  God,  and  he 
h;:tb  shined  upon  us,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  we  may  always  gratefully  solemnize  the  Paschal 
mysteries,  and  that  the  continual  celebration  of  the 
jacrament  of  our  redemption  may  be  to  us  a  subject 
of  perpetual  joy.  Thro'. 


346  LOW-SUNDAY* 

COMM.  GaL  iii.  —  All  you  that  have  been  bap. 
tized  in  Christ,  have  put  on  Christ,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Redemptionis.  —  Being  strengthened, 
O  Lord,  by  tlxe  sacrament  of  our  redemption,  grant 
that,  through  this  help  to  eternal  salvation,  a  true 
faith  may  always  be  increased  in  us.  Thro\ 

QUASIMODO,  or  LOW  SUNDAY, 

IS  called  in  the  Roman  Missal  Dominica  in  albis,  because 
those  who  were  baptized  on  Holy  Saturday,  laid  aside 
the  white  garments  wherewith  they  were  yesterday  clothed, 
and  began  this  day  to  be  no  longer  distinguished  in  dress 
from  the  rest  of  the  faithful.  It  is  to  the  newly  baptized 
however,  and  those  who  have  recovered  their  innocence 
by  the  sacrament  of  penance,  that  the  Church  addresses 
herself,  exhorting  them,  like  new-born  children,  earnestly 
to  desire  the  spiritual  milk  of  the  word  of  God,  which 
alone  can  maintain  in  them  that  life  of  grace  which  they 
have  just  recovered. 

TNTROIT.     i  Peter  ii.     Ps.  Ixxx. 


LIKE  new  born  chil-  jg)  UASIMODO,  geniti 
dren,  Allel.  desire  c\^  infantes,  Allel,  ra- 
spiritual  and  pure  milk,  tionabile  sine  dolo  lac  con- 
Allel.  Allel.  Allel.  Ps,  cupiscite,  Alleluia,  Allel. 
Rejoice  in  God,  who  is  Allel.  Ps.  Exultate  Dei 
our  help:  joyfully  praise  adjutori  nostro  ;  jubilate 
the  God  of  Jacob.  V.  Deo  Jacob.  V.  Gloria. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.  Przsta.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  have  celebrated  the 
solemnity  of  Easter,  may,  by  the  assistance  of  thy 
divine  grace,  ever  make  the  effects  thereof  manifest 
in  our  lives  and  actions.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  John  v.  4.  9.  —  Dearly  beloved  : 
Whatsoever  is  born  of  God,  overcometh  the  world  : 
and  this  is  the  victory  which  overcometh  the  world, 
our  faith.  Who  is  he  that  overcometh  the  world, 
but  he  that  believeth  that  Jesus  is  the  Son  of  God  ? 


LOW-SUNDAY.  347 

This  is  he  that  came  by  water  and  blood,  Jesus 
Christ:  not  by  water  only,  but  by  water  and  blood. 
And  it  is  the  spirit  which  testifieth,  that  Christ  is  the 
truth.  For  there  are  three  who  give  testimony  in 
heaven,  the  Father,  the  Word,  and  the  Holy  Ghost. 
And  these  three  are  one.  And  there  are  three  that 
give  testimony  on  earth:  the  spirit,  the  water,  and 
the  blood,  and  these  three  are  one.  If  we  receive  the 
testimony  of  men,  the  testimony  of  God  is  greater. 
For  this  is  the  testimony  of  God  which  is  greater, 
because  he  hath  testified  of  his  Son.  He  that  be- 
lieveth  in  the  Son  of  God,  hath  the  testimony  of 
God  in  himself. 

Alleluia.  Allel.  V.  On  the  day  of  my  resurrec- 
tion, sa'uh  the  Lord,  I  will  go  before  you  into  Ga- 
lilee. Alleluia. 

V.  After  eight  days,  V.  Post  dies  octo  ja- 
the  doors  being  shut,  Je-  nuis  clansis,  stetit  Jesus 
stis  stood  in  the  midst  of  in  media  discipulorum  suo- 
his  disciples,  and  said:  rum,  et  dixit ;  Ptwoobis. 
Peace  be  with  you.  Allel.  Alleluia. 

(BOjSpCl.  John  xx.  19.  31.  — ^U  that  time: 
When  it  was  late  that  same  day,  being  the  same 
day  of  the  week,  and  the  doors  were  shut,  where 
the  disciples  were  gathered  toother  for  fear  of  the 
Jews,  Jesus  came  and  stood  in  the  midst,  and  said  to 
them:  Peace  be  to  you.  And  when  he  had  said 
this  he  shewed  them  his  hands  and  his  side.  The 
disciples  therefore  were  glad  when  they  saw  the 
Lord.  And  he  said  to  them  again:  Peace  be  to 

•o;i.     As  the  Father  hath  sent  me,   I  also  send  yon. 

kVhen  he  had  said  this,  he  breathed  on  them;  and 
he  said  to  them  :  Receive  ye  the  Holy  Ghost :  whose 
sins  you  shall  forgive,  they  are  forgiven  them  ;  and 
whose  sins  yon  shall  retain,  they  are  retained.  Now 
Thomas,  one  of  the  twelve,  who  is  called  Didymus, 
was  not  with  them  when  Jesus  came.  The  other 


Y 


34*  LOW. SUNDAY. 

disciples  therefore  said  to  him:  We  have  seen  the 
Lord.  But  he  said  to  them:  Except  1  shall  see  iii 
his  hands  the  print  of  the  nails,  and  put  my  finger 
into  the  place  of  the  nails,  and  put  my  hands  into 
his  side,  I  will  not  believe.  And  after  eight  days, 
again  his  disciples  were  within,  and  Thomas  with 
them.  Jesus  cometh,  the  doors  being  shut,  and  stood 
in  the  midst,  and  said  :  Peace  be  to  you.  Then  he 
said  to  Thomas:  Put  in  thy  fingers  hither,  and  see 
niy  hands,  and  bring  hither  thy  hand,  and  put  it  into 
my  side;  and  be  not  faithless,  but  believing.  Tho- 
mas answered  and  said  to  him:  My  Lord  and  my 
God!!  Jesus  saith  to  him:  because  thou  hast  seen 
me,  Thomas,  thou  hast  believed :  blessed  are  they 
that  have  not  seen,  and  have  believed.*  Many  other 
signs  also  did  Jesus  in  the  sight  of  his  disciples, 
which  are  not  written  in  this  book.  But  these  are 
written  that  you  may  believe  that  Je-sus  is  the  Christ 
the  Son  of  God:  and  that  believing  you  may  have 
life  in  his  name.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Matt,  xxviii.-— An  angel  of  the  Lord 
came  down  from  heaven,  and  said  to  the  women  : 
He  whom  you  seek  is  risen,  as  he  told  you,  Allel. 

SECRET.  Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  of  thy  joyful  Church  :  and  as  thou  hast 
given  occasion  to  this  great  joy,  g taut  she  may  re- 
ceive the  fruits  of  that  joy,  which  will  never  end. 
Thro'. 

COMM.  John  xx.— Put  forth  thy  hand,  and  re- 
mark  the  place  of  the  nails,  Alleluia:  and  be  not 
incredulous,  but  believe,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Quasunnts. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord  our  God,  that  the  sacred  mysteries  thou  hast 
given  us  to  preserve  the  grace  of  our  redemption, 
may  be  our  present  and  future  remedy.  Thro'. 

*  What  follows  is  omitted  on  the  2ist  of  December,  ths 
Feast  of  St.  Thorns. 


II.  SUNDAY  AFTER  EASTER.  349 

fc^  From  hence  till  the  Ascension,  (except  on  Dou- 
bles) the  II.  Collect  is  Concede,  as  in  the  Votive 
Mass  of  the  B.  Vr.  M.  from  Easter  to  Advent;  the 
111.  Ecclesije,  or  Deus  omnium,  pp.  50,  «$*c«  w^ 
tiit'i.}1  respect  ire.  Secrets  and  P.  Comms* 

II.     SUNDAY  after  EASTER. 
INTRO1T.     Ps.  xxxii. 

THE  earth  is  fall  of     TLflstric'ordia      Domini 
the  mercy   of  the     -*'-*-  plena  es  terra,  Al- 
Lord,  Allel.:  the  heavens     Icluia  :  Derbv  Domini  ccdi 
ivere  made  by  the  word    ftrmatisunt,  Alleluia^  Al- 
of  the  Lord,  Allel.  Allel.     lelaia. 

Ps  Rejoice  in  the  Lord        Ps.     Exultate  justi  in 
ye  righteous:  it  becom-     Domino:  rectos  decet  col* 
etli  the  upright  to  praise     laudatio.     V.   Gloria. 
him.     V.  Glory. 

COLL.  Deus. — O  God,  who,  by  the  humilia- 
tion of  thy  Son,  hast  raised  up  the  fallen  world: 
grant  to  thy  people  perpetual  joy  ;  that  they,  whom 
thou  hast  delivered  from  the  danger  of  everlasting 
death,  may  arrive  at  eternal  happiness,  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  ii.  21.  25.— Dearly  Beloved: 
Christ  also  suffered  for  us,  leaving  you  an  example 
that  you  should  follow  his  steps.  Who  did  no  &m9 
neither  zcas  guile  found  in  his  mouth.  Who,  when 
he  was  reviled,  did  not  revile:  when  he  suffered,  he 
threatened  not;  but  delivered  himself  to  him  that 
judged  him  unjustly:  who  his  own  self  bore  our  sins 
in  his  body  upon  the  tree :  that  we  being  dead  to 
sins,  should  live  to  justice:  by  whose  stripes  you 
were  healed  For  you  were  as  sheep  going  astray  : 
but  you  are  jiow  converted  to  the  shepherd  and 
bishop  of  your  souls. 

K  I  am  the  good  shep-        V-     Eg°  sum    Ptisfor 
herd,    and    I   know   my     if-.i:<;*,    <-    cognosco  vies 
Gg 


3P  HI,    SUNDAY  AFTER  EASTER, 

sheep,  and  my  sheep  meas,  ct  cogrtoscunt  me 
know  me,  Alleluia.  meat.  Alleluia. 

<000p£U  'John  x.  u.  16.  —  At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  the  Pharisees  :  I  am  the  good  shepherd: 
The  good  shepherd  giveth  his  life  for  his  sheep.  But 
the  hireling,  and  he  that  is  not  the  shepherd,  whose 
own  the  sheep  are  not,  seeth  the  wolf  coming,  and 
leaveth  the  sheep,  and  flieth,  and  the  wolf  cutcheth, 
and  scattereth  the  sheep:  and  the  hireling  flieth, 
because  he  is  a  hireling  ;  and  he  hath  no  care  for  the 
sheep.  I  am  the  good  shepherd ;  and  I  know  mine, 
and  mine  know  me.  As  the  Father  knovveth  me, 
and  1  know  the  Father;  and  1  lay  down  my  life  for 
my  sheep,  And  other  sheep  I  have,  that  are  not  of 
this  fold  j  them  also  I  must  bring,  and  they  shall 
hear  my  voice,  and  there  shall  be  one  fold,  and  one 
shepherd.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ivii.— O  God,  my  God,  to  thee,  I 
watch  from  break  of  day  :  and  at  thy  name  I  will 
lift  up  my  hands.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  May  this  holy  oblation,  O  Lord, 
drawdown  upon  us  thy  saving  blessing;  and  always 
produce  in  us  the  effect  of  what  is  represented  in  these 
sacred  mysteries.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  x. — I  am  the  good  shepherd,  A  He. 
luia:  and  I  know  my  sheep,  and  my  sheep  know 
me.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Prasta.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  Cod,  that,  receiving  from  thee  the  grace 
of  life,  we  may  always  glory  in  thy  gift.  Thro'. 

III.  SUNDAY  after  EASTER. 

INTROIT.    Ps.\w. 

SING  to  God  all  the      jubilate  Deo  omnis  ttr. 
earth,  Alleluia:  sing     **     ra,    Alleluia;    psaU 
a  psalm  to  his  name,  Al.     mum    dicite    nomini  ems, 
\eluia.  Publish  aloud  his    Alleluia.     Date   gioriam 


III-.    SUNDAY  AFTER   EASTER.  3$I 

praises,  Alleluia,  Allel.  laudi  ejus,  AllcL  Allel. 
Allel.  Ps.  Say  to  God:  Allel.  *  Ps.  Dicite  Deo: 
how  terrible  are  thy  yiiam  terribilia  sunt  opera 
works,  OLord!  Th)  great  tua  Domhief  In  wulti- 
power  shall  convict  thy  tud'uie  virtutis  tad'  men- 
enemies  of  a  lie.  ticntur  tibi  inimici  tui. 

V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Detis,  qui.—O  God,  who  shewest 
the  light  of  thy  truth  to  such  as  go  astray,  that  they 
may  return  to  the  way  of  righteousness :  grant  that 
all,  who  profess' the  Christian  name,  may  forsake 
whatever  is  contrary  to  that  profession,  and  closely 
pursue  what  is  agreeable  to  it.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  \\.  n.  jy.— Dearly  Beloved  : 
I  beseech  you  as  strangers  and  pilgrims,  to  refrain 
yourselves  from  carnal  desires,  which  war  against 
the  soul,  having  your  conversation  good  among  the 
Gentiles ;  that  whereas  they  speak  against  you  as  evil 
doers,  considering  you  by  your  good  works,  they 
may  give  glory  to  God  in  the  day  of  visitation.  Be 
ye  subject  therefore  to  every  human  creature  for 
God's  sake  :  whether  it  be  to  the  king,  as  excelling: 
or  to  governors  as  sent  by  him  for  the  punishment  of 
evil  doers,  and  for  the  praise  of  the  good  :  for  so  is 
the  will  of  God,  that  by  doing  well  you  may  put  to 
silence  the  ignorance  of  foolish  men:  as  free,  and 
not  as  making  liberty  a  cloak  for  naughtiness,  but  as 
the  servants  of  God.  Honour  all  men;  love  the 
brotherhood;  fear  God:  honour  the  king.  Servants 
be  subject  to  your  masters  with  all  fear,  not  only  to 
the  good  and  gentle,  but  also  to  the  froward.  For 
this  is  thanks-Worthy  in  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Ps.  ex.  The  Lord  hath 
redeemed  his  people.  Alleluia. 

V,  Christ  was  to  suffer,  V.  Opportcbat  pail 
and  rise  again  from  the  Christvm,  it  resurgere-a 
dead,  and  so  enter  into  morluis,  ct  ita  in! rare  in 
his  glory.  Alleluia.  glorium  suain.  Alleluia. 

Gg2 


III.    SUNDAY  AFTER  EASTER. 


John  xvL  16.  22.—  At  that  time  : 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples  :  —  A  little  while,  and  now 
you  shall  not  see%me  •.  and  again  a  little  while,  and 
you  shall  see  me  :  because  I  go  to  the  Father.  Then 
some  of  his  disciples  said  one  to  another  ;  What  is 
this  that  he  saith  to  us:  A  little  while,  and  you  shall 
not  see  me  :  and  again  a  little  while,  and  you  shall 
see  me,  and,  because  I  go  to  the  Father  ?  They 
said  therefore  ;  What  is  this  that  he  saith  :  A  little 
while  ?  we  know  not  what  hespeaketh.  And  Jesus 
knew  that  they  had  a  mind  to  ask  him  ;  and  he  said 
to  them  :  Of  this  do  you  enquire  among  yourselves, 
because  I  said:  A  little  while,  and  you  shall  not  see 
me  :  and  again  a  little  while,  and  you  shall  see  me. 
Amen,  amen,  I  say  to  you,  that  you  shall  lament 
and  weep,  but  the  world  shall  rejoice  ;  and  you  shall 
be  sorrowful,  but  your  sorrow  shall  be  turned  into 
joy.  A  woman,  when  she  is  in  labour,  hath  sor- 
row, because  her  hour  is  come:  but  when  she  hath 
brought  forth  the  child,  she  remembereth  no  more 
the  anguish,  for  joy  that  a  man  is  born  into  the 
world.  So  also  you  now  indeed  have  sorrow,  but 
I  will  see  you  again,  and  your  heart  shall  rejoice  5 
and  your  joy  no  man  shall  take  from  you.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxl.—  Praise  the  Lord,  O  my  soul, 
J  will  praise  the  Lord,  while  1  live:  1  will  sing  a 
psalm  to  my  God,  while  1  have  a  being.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  May  these  sacred  mysteries,  O  Lord, 
diminish  in  us.  the  love  of  the  things  of  this  world, 
and  increase  the  love  of  such  as  are  eternal.  Thro'. 

COMM  —  A  little  while,  and  you  shall  not  see 
me,  Alleluia:  again  a  little  while  and  you  shall  see 
me  :  because  I  go  to  the  Father,  Allel.  Aliei. 

P  COMM.—  May  the  sacrament  we  have  received, 
O  Lord,  supply  us  with  the  spiritual  food  of  the 
soul,  and  all  necessary  helps  of  the  body.  Thro'. 


(    353     > 

IV.  SUNDAY  after  EASTER. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  xcvii. 

SING   to    the  Lord  a     /^ARTATE        Domino 
new  canticle,    Ailo  caiUicum  nnvnw,  AU 

luia  :  For  the  Lord  hath  le/uia:  guia  inirili 'najc- 
clone  wonders,  Alleluia;  cit  Domi/tu$f  Alleluia  \ 
he  hath  displayed  his  ante  cu'ixpe.ctuni  gentium 
justice  in  the  sight  of  all  nmlarit  jus'itiuu.  snatn, 
nations,  Allel.  Alle.  Alle.  Alldni<t,  'Alleluia,  Allcl. 
TV II is  right  hand  and  his  Ps.  Salvavit  sit>i  dt\c(< -ra 
holv  arm  hath  saved  us.  P;WJ  e'£  Irackium  sanctum 

V.    Glory.  ejus.     V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dsus,  qui. — O  God,  who  mak.est  the 
faithful  to  be  of  one  mind:  grant  that  thy  people 
may  love  what  thou  commandest,  and  desire  what 
thou  promisest:  that,  amidst  the  uncertainties  of 
this  world,  we  m.iy  place  our  affections  where  there 
there  are  true  joys.  Thro', 

EPISTLE.  James  i.  17.  21.  —  Dearly  beloved  ; 
Every  best  gift,  and  every  perfect  sift,  is  from  above, 
coming  down  from  the  Father  of  lights,  with  whom 
there  is  no  change,  nor  shadow  of  alteration.  For 
of  his  own  will  hath  he  begotten  us  by  the  word  of 
truth,  that'we  might  be  some  beginning  of  his  crea- 
tures, You  know,  my  dearest  brethren.  And  let 
every  man  be  swift  to  hear;  but  slow  to  speak,  and 
slow  to  anger.  For  the  anger  of  man  worketh  not 
the  justice  of  God.  Wherefore  casting  away  all  un- 
cleanness,  and  abundance  of  naughtiness,  with 
meekntss  receive  the  ingrafted  word,  which  is  able 
to  save  your  souls. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  right  hand  of  the 
Lord  hath  displayed  his  power;  the  right  hand  of 
the  Lurd  hath  raised  me  up,  Alleluia. 

r.     Christ  rising  from          V.     Chris! us  resurgent 
the  dead,  dieth  no  more :     ex  mortuis,  jam  a*. 
G  g  3 


354  IV.    SUNDAY  AFTER.  EASTER. 

death  shall  no  longer  ritur ;  rnors  illi  ultra. 
have  power  over  him,  nondominubitur,  Alleluia. 
Alleluia. 

Oi50$pCl+  -John  xvi.  5.  15.  — At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples  :  I  go  to  him  that  sent  me-, 
and  none  of  you  asketh  me  ;  Whither  goest  thou  ? 
But  because  I  have  spoken  these  things  to  you,  sor- 
row hath  filled  your  heart.  But  I  tell  you  the  truth : 
it  is  expedient  to  you  that  I  go  :  for  if  I  go  not,  the 
Paraclete  will  not  come  to  you;  but  if  I  go,  I  will 
send  him  to  you.  And  when  he  is  come,  he  will 
convince  the  world  of  sin,  and  of  justice,  and  of 
judgment.  Of  sin:  because  they  believed  not  in. 
me.  And  of  justice:  because  1  go  to  the  Father; 
and  you  shall  see  me  no  longer.  And  of  judgment:- 
because  the  prince  of  this  world  is  already  judged. 
1  have  yet  many  things  to  Fay  to  you  ;  but  you  can- 
not bear  them  now.  But  when  he,  the  Spirit  of 
truth,  is  come,  he  will  teach  you  all  truth.  For  he 
shall  not  speak  of  himself;  but  what  things  soever 
he  shall  hear,  he  shall  speak:  and  the  things  that 
are  to  come  he  shall  shew  you.  He  shall  glorify 
me;  because  he  shall  receive  of  mine,  and  shall 
shew  it  von.  CREDO. 

OFFER1!'.  Ps.  Ixv.—  Sing  to  the  Lord  all  the 
earth,  sing  a  psalm  to  his  name:  come,  and  hear, 
and  I  will  relate  to  you,  all  you  who  fear  God, 
what  great  things  the  Lord  hath  done  for  my  soul. 
Allel. 

SECR.  O'God,  who  madest  us  partakers  of  the 
one  supreme  Divinity,  by  the  frequent  celebration 
and  participation  of  this  holy  sacrifice  :  grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  as  w<.  know  thy  truth,  so  we  may 
live  up  to  it  by  a  worthy  conduct  of  life.  Thro*.  « 

COMM-  John  xvi.— When  vhe  Comforter,  the 
Spirit  of  truth  shall  come,  he  will  convince  the 
world  concerning  sin,  justice  and  judgment.  Al- 
leluia, Alleluia, 


V.   SUNDAY    AFTER    BAST£R.  355 

P.  COMM.  Adesto.— Help  us,  OGcd,  our  Lord, 
that  our  sins  may  be  forgiven,  and  that  we  may  i;o 
delivered  from  all  dangers  by  the  sacrament,  winch 
we  have  received  with  faith.  Thro/ 

V.  SUNDAY  after  EASTER. 
INTROIT.     Is.  xlviii.    fs.  Ixv. 

§END  forth  a  shout  of      TTOccm  jucunditiiih  ////. 
joy,    and  let   it   be  nvnlialc9   ct  uudin- 

ird.     Alleluia.      Pub-     tu~.     Alleluia.      Ai< 
lish  tothe  utmost  bounds     tiate  umpir.  ad  cxlrctninn 
of  the    earth:     that   the     terra  ;     lihu-avit    J)wni. 
Lord  hath  redeemed  his     nutpopulumsuum.     Allc- 
people.     Alleluia,  Alle-     luia.  Alleluia. 
'luia.     Ps.  Sing  with  joy         Ps.  Jubilate  Deo  omnis 
fo   Cod,  all    the    earth:     terra ;     psalmum      Jici/e 
sing  a  psalm  to  his  name;     noutini  (jus:    date  gloi'i- 
proclaim  aloud  his  prais-     aw  laudi  ejus. 
es.     V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dcus.—O  God,  from  whom  all 
that  is  good  proceeds  :  grant  that  thy  people,  by  thy 
inspiration,  may  resolve  on  what  is  right,  and  by 
thy  direction,  put  it  in  practice.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  James  i.  22.  27.  — Dearly  Moved \ 
Be  ye  doers  of  the  word,  and  not  hearers  only,  de- 
ceiving your  own  selves.  For  if  a  man  be  a  hearer 
of  the  word,  and  not  a  doer  ;  he  shall  be  compared 
to  a  man  beholding  his  own  countenance  in  a  glass. 
For  he  beheld  himself,  and  went  his  way,  and  pre- 
sently forgot  what  manner  of  man  he  was.  But  he 
that  hath  looked  into  the  perfect  law  of  liberty,  and 
hath  continued  therein,  not  becoming  a  forgetful 
hearer,  but  a  doer  of  the  work:  this  man  shall  be 
blessed  in  his  deed.  And  if  any  man  think  himself 
religious,  not  bridling  his  tongue,  but  deceiving  his 
own  heart,  this  man's  religion  is  vain.  Religion 
clean  and  undeiiled  before  God  and  the  Father,  is 


3$6  V.  SUNDAY  AFTER  EASTER. 

this,  to  visit  the  fatherless  and  the  widows  in  their 
tribulation  :  and  to  keep  one's  self  unspotted  from 
the  world. 

Alleluia,  Alheliiia.  V.  Christ  is  risen,  and  hath 
shone  upon  us,  whom  he  hath  redeemed  with  his 
blood.  Alleluia. 

¥•  I  came  forth  from        V.     E.rlvi  a  Patre,  ct 
the  Father,  and  1  came  in-     veni  in  mumhtm:   iterum 
to  the  world:  I  leave  the     rdlnqno  munduw,  ct  vado 
world  again,  and  go  to     ad  Putrem.     Alleluia. 
the  Father.  Alleluia. 

dl5Q0p£l,  JoA'i  xvi.  23.  oo.  —At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples  :  Amen,  amen,  I  say  to 
you  ;  if  you  ask  the  Father  any  thing  in  my  name, 
he  will  give  it  you.  Hitherto  you  have  not  asked 
any  thing  in  my  name.  Ask,  and  you  shall  receive; 
that  your  joy  may  be  full.  These  things  I  have  spo- 
ken to  you  in  proverbs.  The  hour  cometh  when  [ 
will  no  more  speak  to  you  in  proverbs,  but  will  shew 
you  plainly  of  the  Father.  In  that  day  you  shall  ask 
in  my  name;  and  I  say  nnt  to  you,  that  I  will  ask 
the  Father  for  you.  For  the  Father  himself  loveth 
you,  because  you  have  loved  me,  and  have  believed 
that  I  came  out  from  God.  I  came  forth  from  the 
Father,  and  am  come  into  the  world:  again  I  leave 
the  world,  and  I  go  to  the  Father.  His  disciples  say 
to  him;  Behold  now  thou  speakest  plainly,  and 
speakest  no  proverb.  Now  we  know  that  thou 
knowest  all  things,  and  thou  needest  not  that  any 
man  should  ask  thee.  By  this  we  believe  that  thou 
earnest  forth  from  God.  CRSDQ. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixv.—Bless  the  Lord  our  God,  ye 
Gentiles:  publish  the  praises  of  him,  who  hath 
granted  me  life,  and  hath  not  permitted  me  to  fall. 
Blessed  is  the  Lord,  who  hath  not  rejected  my  pray- 
er, nor  withdrawn  his  mercy  from  me.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  prayers  of  the  faithful,  together  with  these  obla- 


ROGATION-DAYS.  357 

tions;  that  by  these  dutie.^  of  piety  we  may  obtain 
eternal  life.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Pa.  xcv.— Sing  to  the  Lord,  Alleluia, 
sing  to  the  Lord,  and  b'ess  his  name:  publish  duly, 
every  day,  that  he  hath  raved  us.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  rr/6^.— Grant,  O  Lord,  by  the  power 
of  the  heavenly  nourishment  we  have  received,  that 
we  desire  what  is  right,  and  obtain  our  desire.  Thro*, 

ROGATION-DAYS. 

WHENT  the  Diocese  ofViennc,  in  the  fifth  century,  had 
been  dreadfully  afflicted  by  incessant  earthquakes, 
incursions  of  wild  beasts,  &c.  &c.  St.  Manuitvs  its  Bishop 
experienced  such  happy  effects  from  the  public  supplica- 
tions he  had  appointed  for  the  ceasing  of  these  terrible  ca- 
lamities, that  the  same  pious  custom  extended  itself  grad- 
ually over  the  whole  Western  Church  ;  and  hence  it  is, 
that  on  the  three  days  preceding  the  Feast  of  the  Ascen- 
sion, abstinence  from  flesh  is  enjoined,  and  the  long  Lita- 
nies arc  sung  in  solemn  procession  in  catholic  countries: 
that  the  wrath  of  God  being  appeased  by  the  abstinence 
and  prayers  of  his  Church,  we  may  avert  those  punish- 
ments which  are  justly  due  to  our  sins. 

LNTRO1T.  jh>.  xvii,— He  hath  heard  my  voice 
from  his  holy  temple,  Alleluia.  And  theory  1  sent 
forth  in  his  presence  hath  reached  his  ears,  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  Ps.  I  will  love  thee,  O  Lord,  my  strength : 
the  Lord  is  my  support,  and  my  refuge,  and  my  de- 
liverer. V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Prtesla. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  iluit  \ve,  who  in  bur  afflictions 
rely  on  thy  goodness,  may,  under  thy  protection,  be 
defended  against  all  adversities.  Turo*. 

EPISTLE.  JutHCtv,  m,  20. —  Most  clearly  belov- 
ed: Confess  your  sins  one  to  another ;  and  pray  one 
for  another,  that  you  may  be  saved.  For  the  contu 
nual  prayer  o<  a  just  man  availeth  much.  Elias  was 
a  man  passible  like  unto  us:  and  with  prayer  he 
prayed  that  it  mij;ht  not  rain  upon  the  earth,  aud  it 


358  HOGATION-DAYS. 

rained  not  for  three  years  and  six  months.  And  he 
prayed  again :  and  the  heaven  gave  rain,  and  the 
earth  brought  forth  her  fruit.  My  brethren,  if  any 
of  you  err  from  the  truth,  and  one  convert  him:  he 
must  know,  that  he  who  caused  a  sinner  to  be  con- 
verted from  the  error  of  his  way,  shall  save  his  soul 
from  death,  and  shall  cover  a  multitude  of  sins. 

m  Alleluia.     V.  Praise  the  Lord,  for  he  is  good,  and 
his  mercy  endureth  for  ever. 

^  (1500p£U  Luke  xi.  5. 13—  At  that  time  :  Jesus 
said  to  his  disciples;  Which  of  you  shall  have  a 
friend,  and  shall  go  to  him  at  midnight,  and  shall 
say  to  him:  Friend,  lend  me  three  loaves,  because  a 
friend  of  mine  has  come  off  his  journey  to  me,  and 
I  have  nothing  to  set  before  him  :  and  he  from  with- 
in should  answer  and  say  :  Trouble  me  not,  the  door 
is  now  shut,  and  my  children  are  with  me  in  bed ; 
and  I  cannot  rise  and  give  thee.  Yet  if  he  shall 
continue  knocking,  I  say  to  you,  although  he  will 
not  rise  and  give  him,  because  he  is  his  friend ;  yet 
because  of  his  importunity  he  will  rise,  and  give  him 
as  many  as  he  needeth.  And  I  say  to  you,  Ask,  and  it 
shall  be  given  you :  seek,  and  you  shall  find  :  knock, 
and  it  sha'tfte  opened  to  you.  For  every  one  that 
asketh,  receiveth :  and  he  that  seeketh,  fiudeth  :  and 
to  him  that  knocketh,  it  shall  be  opened.  And 
which  of  you,  if  he  ask  his  father  bread,  will  he  give 
him  a  stone  ?  or  a  fish,  will  he  for  a  fish  give  him  a 
serpent?  Oi  if  he  ask  an  egg,  will  he8  reach  him  a 
a  scorpion  ?  If  you  then  being  evil,  know  how  to 
give  good  gifts  to  your  children,  how  much  more 
will  your  Father  from  heaven  give  the  good  Spirit  to 
them  that  ask  him? 

VpEFERT,    Ps.  cviii.— I  will  praise  the  Lord  with 

a  fia.ud  voice :  I  will  praise  him  in  a  numerous  assem* 

Lly  j^for  he  stood  on  the  right  hand  of  the  poor  one, 

to  save  rrie-from  those  that  pursued  my  life.     Allel. 

SECRET.     May  these  offerings,  O  Lord,  loosen 


THE    LITAK1ES.  3^9 

the  bonds  of  our  wickedness,  and  obtain  for  us  the 
gift  of  thy  mercy.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Luke  xi. — Ask,  and  it  shall  be  given 
you  ;  seek,  ami  you  shall  find:  knock,  and  it  shall 
be  opened  to  you.  For  every  one  that  asketh,  re- 
ceiveth  :  and  he  that  seeketh,  findeth  ;  and  to  him 
that  knocketh,  it  shall  be  opened.  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Vota  nostra.—We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  mercifully  receive  our  prayers;  that  while  we 
partake  of  thy  gifts  in  our  affliction,  the  comfort  wa 
find  may  increase  our  love.  Thro'. 

ANTHF^f  before  the  Litanies. 
Exurge,  Domine,  adjuva  nos:  et  libera  nos  prop- 
ter  gloriam  nominis  tui.     Alleluia. 

Ps.  Deus,  auribus  nostris  andivimus;  patres  nostri 
unnuntiaverunt  nobis.     r.  Gloria. 
Ant.  Exurge,  &c.  toPs. 

The  LITANIES. 
Parts  marked  thus  *  arc  omitted  on  Holy  Saturday. 

KYrieeleison.  Christe     Sancte  Michael,         ora. 
eleison.  Kyrie  elei-     Sancte  Gabriel,         ora. 

son.  Christe  audi  nos.  Sancte  Raphael,  ora. 
Christe  exaudi  nos.  Omnes  sancti  Angeli  et 

Pater  de  coelis  Deus,  Mi-         Archangel?,         orate. 

serere  nobis.  Omnes   sancti  beatorum 

Fili    Iledemptor    mundi        spirituum         Ordines, 

Deus,  miserere  nobis.          orate  pro  nobis. 
Spiritns  sancte  Deus,  mi-     Sancte  J.  Baptiste,     ora. 

serere  nobis.  Sancte  Joseph,  ora. 

Sancta  Trinitas  unus  De-     Omnes  sancti  Patriarchs 

us,  miserere  nobis.  et  Prophetse,       orate. 

Sancta   Maria,    Ora  pro     Sancte  Petrse,    ora    pro 

nobis.  nobis. 

$ancta  Dei  genitrix,  ora     Sancte  Paule,  ora. 

pro  nobis.  Sancte  Andrea,          ora. 

Sancta  Virgo  Virginum,     Sancte  Jacobe,  ora^ 

ora  pro  nobis.  *Sancte  Joannes,       ora. 


360  THE 

*Sancte  Thoma,  ora. 
*Sancte  Jacobe,  ora. 
*Sancte  Philippe,  ora. 
*SancteBartho!bmx*ora. 
*Sancte  Matthsee,  ora. 
*Sancte  Simon,  ora. 
*Sancte  Thaddsee,  ora. 
*Sancte  Mathia,  ora. 
*Saacte  Barnaba,  ora. 
*Sancte  Luca,  ora. 

Sancte  Marce.  ora. 

Omnes  sancti  Apostoli  et 

Evangelist®,        orate. 
Omnes  sancti    Discipuii 

Domini,  orate. 

Omnes    sancti  Innocen- 

tes,  orate. 

Sancte  Stephane,  ora. 
Sancte  Laurent!,  ora. 
Sancte  Vincenti,  ora. 
Sancti  Fabiane  et  Sebas- 
tians, orate  pro  nobis. 
Sancti  Joannes  et  Panie, 

orate  pro  nobis. 
Sancti  Cosma  et  Da  mi- 

ane,  orate* 

Sancti  Gervasi  et  Prota- 

si,  orate. 

Omnes  sane  a  Mart)  res, 

orate. 

Sancte  Sylvester,  ora. 
Sancte  Gtegori,  ora. 
Sancte  Ambrosi,  ora. 
Sancte  Augustine,  ora. 
*Sancte  Hieronyme,  ora. 
' Sancte  Martine,  ora. 
^Sancte  Nicolae,  ora. 
'  sancti  Ponti-fices 


ora. 
ora. 
ora. 
ora. 
ora. 


LITANIES. 

et   Confessores, 
•  »  pro  nobis. 
Omnes  sancti  Doctores, 

orate  pro  nobis. 
Sancte  Antoni, 
Sancte  Benedicte, 
*Sancte  Bernarde, 
Sancte  Dominice, 
Sancte  Francisce, 
Omnes  sancti  Sacerdotes 

et  Levitae,  orate. 

Omnes  sancti    Monachi 

et  Eremite,         orate. 
Sancta  Maria  Magdale- 

na,  ora. 

*Sancta  Agatlia,  u  ora. 
*Sancta  Lucia,  ora. 
Sancta  Agnes,  ora. 

*Sancta  Caecilia,  ora. 
*Sancta  Catharina,  ora. 
Sancta  Anastasia,  ora. 
Omnes  sanctse  Virgines 

et  V7iduae,  orate. 

Omnes  Sancti  et  Sanctse 

Dei,    intercedite    pro 

nobis. 
Propititis  esto,  Parce  no- 

bis Do  mine. 
Propititis    esto,    Exaudi 

nos  Domine. 
Ab   omni  malo,  Libera 

nos  Domine. 
Ab  omni  peccato,  libera 

nos  Domine. 
*Ab  ira  tua,  libera  nos 

Domine. 
*A  subitanea  etimprovi- 

sa  rnorte,  libera,  Src. 


THE   L1TANJES.  361 

*A1>  insidiisjiaboli,  libe-        rogamus  audi  nos. 


ra  nos  Domine. 

*Ab  ira,  odio,  et  omni 
mala  voluntate,  libera 
nos  Doraine. 

A  spiritu  fornicationis, 
libera  nos  Domine. 

*A  fulgure  et  tempestate, 
iibera  nos  Domine. 

A  morte  perpetua,  libera 
nos  Domine. 

Per  n-ysterium  sanctse: 
incarnationis  tuse,  li- 
bera nos  Domine. 

Per  adventum  tuum,  li- 
bera nos  Domine. 

Per  nativitatem  tuam,  li- 
bera nos  Domine. 

Per  baptism um  et  sanc- 
tum jejunium  tuum, 
libera  nos  Domine. 

Per  crucem  et  passionem 
tuam,  libera,  &c. 

Per  mortem  et  sepultu- 
ram  tuam,  libera,  £c. 

Per  sanctam  resurrectio- 
nem  tuam,  libera,  &c. 

Ptr  admirabilem  ascensi- 
neia  tuam,  libera,  &c. 

Per  adventum  Spiritus 
sancti  Paraciiti,  libera 
nos  Domine, 

In  die  judicii,  libera,  &c. 

Peccatoi.;s,  te  rogamus 
audi  nos. 

Ut  nobis  parcns,  te  roga- 
mus audi  nos* 

Ut    uobis    indulgeas,   te    Ut"  animus  nosua*,  fr,v- 
Hh 


Ut  ad  verarn  pcenitentU 
am.  nos  perducere  dig- 
neris, te  rogamus,  &c. 

Ut  Ecclesiam  tuam  sane- 
tain  regere  et  conser- 
fare  digneris,  te  roga- 
mus audi  nos. 

Ut  dorninum  Apostoli- 
cum  et  omnes  Eccle- 
siasticos  Ordines  in 
sancta  religione  con. 
servare  digneris,  te  ro- 
gamus audi  nos. 

Ut  inimicos  sanctse  Ec- 
clesiae  humiliare  dig- 
neris, te  rogamus,  &e, 

Ut  Regibus  et  Principi- 
bus  Chnsiianis  pacem 
et  veram  concordiarn 
donare  digneris,  te  10- 
gamus  audi  nos. 

Ut  cuncto  pooulo  Cliris- 
tiano  pacem  et  unita- 
tem  largiri  digiicris,  U 
rogamus  audi  nos. 

Ut  nosmetipsos  in  tuo 
sancto  servitio  confor- 
tare  et  conservare  dig- 
neris, te  rogamus,  &c. 

*Ut  mentes  nostras  ad 
coelestia  desideria  erU 
gis,  te  rogamus,  &e. 

Ut  omnibus  bencfactori- 
bus  nostris  i 
bona  retribuap,  te 
5  audi  nos. 


36* 

trum,  propinqnorum, 
et  bcnefactorum  nos- 
trorum  ab  geterna  dam- 
natione  eripias,  te  ro. 
gamus  audi  nos. 

lit  fructus  terrse  dare  et 
conservare  digneris,  te 
rogamus  audi  nos. 

Ut  omnibus  fidelibus  de- 
functis  requiem  seter- 
nam  donare  digneris, 
te  rogamus  audi  nos. 

Ut  nos  exaudire  digneris, 
te  rogamns  audi  nos. 

Fill  Dei,  te  rogamus,  &c. 

Agnus  Dei,  qui  tollis  pec- 
Ps. 

DEUS  in  adjutorium 
menm  intende;  * 
Domine  ad  adjuvandum 
rae  festina. 

2.  Confundantur  et  re- 
vereantur,  *  qui  quserunt 
animam  meam. 

3.  Avertantur    retror- 
sum,  et  erubescant,  *  qui 
volunt  mi  hi  mala. 

4.  Avertantur    statim 
erubescentes,   *    qui  di- 
cunt  mihi,  Euge,  Euge. 

5.  Exultent  etlcetentur 
in  te  omnes  qui  quaerunt 
te,  *  et  dicant  semper ; 
magnificetur    Dominus, 
qui  diligunt  salutare  tu- 
u  m. 


THE    LITANIES. 

cata  mundi,  Parce  no- 

bis  Domine. 
Agnus  Dei,  qui  tollis pec- 

cata    mundi,    Exaudi 

nos  Domine. 
Agnus  Dei,  qui  tollis  pec- 

cata  mundi,  Miserere 

nobis. 
Christe  audi  nos.  Christe 

exaudi  nos  f.     Kyrie 

eleison.     Christe  elei- 

son.        Kyrie     eleison. 

Pater  noster,  in  secret. 

V.  Et  ne  nos  inducas 

in    tentationem.     jft. 

Sed  libera  nos. 
Ixix. 

6.  Ego  vero  egenus  et 
pauper  sum  \  *  Deu&ad- 
juva  me. 

7.  Adjutor  meus,  et  li- 
berator meus   es   tu  j    * 
Domine  ne  moreris. 

Gloria  Patri,  &c. 

F.  Salvos  fac  servos 
tuos.  R.  Deus  meus 
sperantes  in  te.  V.  Esto 
nobis  Domine  turris  for- 
titudinis.  R*  A  facie 
inimici.  V.  Nihil  profi. 
riat  inimicus  in  npbis* 
R.  Et  filius  iniquitatis 
non  apponat  nocere  no- 
bis. V.  Domine  non  se« 
cundum  peccata  nostra 
facias  nobis.  R.  Nc-que 


Here  the  Mass  on  Holy  Saturday  begins,  and  what  fol- 
lows is  then  entirely  omitted. 


THE    LITANIES.  363 

secundum  iniquitates  no-  functis.  R.  Requiem  se- 
stras  retribnas  nobis.  V.  ternam  doua  eis  Domi- 
Oremus  pro  Pontifice  ne,  et  lux  perpetua  lu- 
nostro  N.  V.  Dominus  ceat  eis.  V.  Requies- 
conservet  eum,  et  vivi-  cant  in  pace.  R.  Amen, 
ficet  eum,  et  beatnm  fa-  V.  Pro  fratribus  nostris 
ciat  eum  in  terra,  et  absentibus.  R.  Salvos 
non  tradat  eum  in  ani-  fac  servos  tuos,  Deus  me- 
mam  inimicorum  ejus.  us  sperantes  in  te.  V. 
V*  Oremus  pro  benefac-  Mitte  eis  Do  mine  auxili- 
toribus  nostris.  R.  Re-  umdesancto.  R.  Et  de 
tribuere  dignare  Domine  Sion  tuere  eos.  V.  Do- 
omnibus  nobis  bona  fa-  mine  exaudi  orationem 
cientibus,  propternomen  meam.  R.  Et  clamor 
tuum,  vitam  aeternam.  V.  meus  ad  te  veniat. 
Oremus  pro  fidelibus  de- 

Or&ntti,     Let  us  pray. 

OGod,  whose  property  it  is  always  to  have  mer- 
cy and  to  spare,  receive  our  petitions  ;  that  we, 
and  all  thy  servants,  who  are  bound  by  the  chain  of 
sin,  may,  by  the  compassion  of  thy  goodness,  mer- 
cifully be  absolved* 

HEAR,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  the  prayers  of 
thy  suppliants,  and  pardon  us  our  sins,  who 
confess  them  to  thee ;   that  of  thy  bounty,  thou  may- 
est  grant  us  pardon  and  peace. 

OUT  of  thy  clemency,  O  Lord,  shew  us  thy  un- 
speakable mercy  j  that  so  thou  mayest  both 
acquit  us  of  our  sins,  and  deliver  us  from  the  punish- 
ment we  deserve  for  them. 

OGod,  who  by  sin  art  offended,  and  by  penance 
pacified,  mercifully  regard  the  prayers  of  thy 
people,  who  make  supplications  to  thee;  and  turn 
away  the  scourges  of  thy  anger,  which  we  deserve 
for  our  sins. 

O  Almighty  and  eternal  God,  have  mercy  on  thy 
servant  N.  our  chief  Bishop,  and  direct  him, 
according  to  thy  clemency,  in  the  way  of  everlasting 
H  h  2 


3^4  THE    LITANIES. 

salvation;  that,  by  thy  grace,  he  may  desire  the 
tisings  that  are  agreeable  to  thy  will,  and  perform 
them  with  all  his  strength. 

OGod,  from  whom  are  holy  desires,  righteous 
counsels,  and  just  works,  give  to  thy  servants 
that  peace  which  the  world  cannot  give;  that  our 
hearts  being  disposed  to  keep  thy  commandments, 
and  the  fear  of  enemies  taken  away,  the  times,  by 
thy  protection,  may  be  peaceable. 

INflame,  O  Lord,  our  reins  and  hearts  with  the 
fire  of  thy  holy  spirit;  to  the  end  we  may  serve 
thee  with  a  chaste  body,  and  please  thee  with  a  clean 
heart. 

OGod,  the  Creator  and  Redeemer  of  all  the 
faithful,  give  to  the  souls  of  thy  servants  de- 
parted the  remission  of  all  their  sins  ;  that,  by  pious 
supplications,  they  may  obtain  the  pardon  they  have 
always  desired. 

PRevent,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  our  actions  by 
thy  holy  inspirations,  and  carry  them  on  by 
thy  gracious  assistance  5  that  every  prayer  and  work 
of  ours  may  always  begin  from  thee,  and  by  thee  be 
happily  ended. 

O  Almighty  and  eternal  God,  who  hast  dominion 
over  the  living  and  the  dead,  and  art  merciful 
to  all,  whom  thou  knowest  will  be  thine  by  faith 
and  good  works;  we  humbly  beseech  thee  that 
they,  for  whom  we  have  purposed  to  offer  our  pray- 
ers, whether  the  present  world  still  retains  them  in 
the  flesh,  or  the  next  world  hath  already  received 
them  divested  of  their  bodies,  may  by  the  clemency 
of  thine  own  goodness,  and  the  intercession  of  thy 
saints,  obtain  pardon  and  full  remission  of  their  sins. 
Thro'.  R.  Amen. 

F.  The  Lord  be  with  you,  R.  And  with  thy  spi- 
rit. K.  May  the  almighty  and  merciful  Lord  gracu 
ously  hear  us.  It.  Amen.  F.  And  may  the  souls 
of  the  faithful  departed,  through  the  mercy  of  God, 
rest  in  peace.  R*  Amen. 


t  365  J 

KVE  of  the  ASCENSION. 

All  as  on  the  fifth  Sunday  nficr  Easter,  p.  355,  (/«• 
finding  a  Commem.  uf  ike  Rogation,  p.  357,  and 
of  the  J5.  V.  Mary,  ty  fte  Collect,  Concede,  as  re- 
Jcrrcd  to  j).  34^,  CJ'ay^ 

KP1STLE.  tip/ics.\v.  7. 13. — Brethren  :  To  eve- 
ry one  of  us  is  given  gtace,  according  to  the  measure 
of  the  giving  of  Christ.  Wherefore  he  saith  :  "  As- 
cending  ou  high  he  led  captivity  captive:  he  gave 
gifts  to  men."  Now  that  he  ascended,  what  is  it, 
but  because  he  also  descended  first  into  the  lower 
parts  of  the  ear.h  ?  He  that  descended,  is  the  same 
also  that  ascended  above  all  the  heavens,  that  he 
might  fill  all  things.  And  he  gave  some  apostles, 
and  some  prophets,  and  other  some  evangelists,  and 
other  some  pastors  and  doctors,  for  the  perfecting  of 
the  saints,  for  the  work  of  the  ministry,  for  the  edi- 
fying of  the  body  of  Christ:  till  we  all  meet  into 
the  unity  of  faith,  and  of  the  knowledge  of  the  Son 
of  God  unto  a  perfect  man,  unto  the  measure  of  the 
age  of  the  fulness  of  Christ. 

dBcSpCl*      John  xvii.   i.    n At   that  time: 

Jesus  lifting  up  his  eyes  to  heaven,  said  :  Father,  the 
hour  is  come,  glorify  thy  Son,  that  thy  Son  may 
glorify  thee.  As  thou  hast  given  him  power  over 
all  flesh,  that  he  may  give  eternal  life  to  all,  whom 
then  hr.st  given  him.  Now  this  is  eternal  life:  that 
they  may  know  thee,  the  only  true  God,  and  Jesus 
Christ,  whom  thou  hast  sent.  1  have  glorified  thee 
on  the  earth;  I  have  finished  the  work  which  thou 
gavest  me  to  do :  And  now  glorify  thou  me,  O  Fa- 
ther, with  thyself,  with  the  glory  which  1  ha\l,  be- 
fore the  world  was,  with  thee.  I  have  manifested 
thy  name  to  the  men  whom  thou  hast  given  me  out 
ot  ti-.e  world.  Thine  they  were,  and  to  me  thou 
.1 ;  and  they  have  kept  thy  word.  Now 
have  known  that  all  things  which,  thou  hast 
II  U  3 


366  ASCENSION-DAY. 

given  me  are  from  thee  :  because  the  words  which 
them  gavest  me,  I  have  given  to  them  :  and  they 
have  received  them,  and  have  known  in  very  deed 
that  I  came  out  from  thee,  and  they  have  believed 
that  thou  didst  send  me.  I  pray  for  them  ;  I  pray 
not  for  the  world,  but  for  them  whom  thou  hast 
given  me,  because  they  are  thine:  and  all  my  tilings 
are  thine,  and  thine  are  mine,  and  I  am  glorified  in 
them.  And  now  I  am  no  more  in  the  world,  and 
these  are  in  the  world,  and  I  come  to  thee. 


TTNstituted  in  commemoration  of  Jesus  Christ's  ascension 
JL  into  heaven,  where,  seated  at  the  right-hand  of  his  Fa- 
ther, he  continually  intercedes  for  us,  and  invites  us  to  the 
place  he  is  there  preparing  for  us,  of  which  we  shall  certain- 
ly be  one  day  put  in  possession,  provided  we  follow  his  ex- 
ample. But  although  there  be  many  mansions  in  heaven, 
yet  there  is  only  one  way  to  go  thither.  Our  Head  arriv- 
ed there,  only  by  the  way  of  sufferings;  let  us  never  then 
flatter  ourselves  with  the  thought  of  obtaining  eternal  hap- 
piness on  any  other  condition. 

1NTROIT.    Acts  i. 

YE  men  of  Galilee,  Tflli  1  Galilai,  quid  ad- 
why  look  you  with  *  miraminiaspicie?itesin 
surprise  up  to  heaven  ?  cesium  $  Alldui  ••:-.  Qucm- 
All  el.  As  you  have  seen  adin  odum  vidistis  eum  as- 
him  ascending  to  heaven,  cendenttm  in  calum,  i£a 
so  shall  he  again  return,  veniet.  Alleluia,  Alleluia, 
Allei.  AlleL  Allel.  Alleluia. 

Ps.  Clap  your  hands,  Ps,  Omnes  Gerties  plvu- 
aU  ye  Gentiles:  sing  to  dite  manibus  :  jubilate 
God  with  a  joyful  voice.  Deo  in  voce  exultalionis. 

V.  Glory.    '  V.   Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Concede.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  almighty  God,  that  we,  who  believe  that  thy  on. 
Jy  Son,  out  Redeemer,  ascended  this  day  into  hea- 


ASCENSION-DAY.  367 

ven,  may  also  hove  our  hearts  always  fixed  on  hea- 
venlv  things.  Thro'  the  same. 

LKSSON.  Acts  i.  i .  1 1 . — The  former  treatise,  I 
made,  O  Theophiius,  of  all  things  which  Jesus  be- 
gan to  do  and  to  teach,  until  the  day  on  which,  giv- 
ing commandments  by  the  Holy  Ghost  to  the  apos- 
tles whom  he  had  chosen,  he  was  taken  up.  To 
whom  aUo  he  shewed  himself  alive  after  his  passion, 
by  many  proofs,  for  forty  days  appearing  to  them, 
and  speaking  of  the  kingdom  of  God.  And  eating 
together  with  them,  he  commanded  them,  that  they 
should  not  depart  from  Jerusalem,  but  should  wait 
for  the  promise  of  the  Father,  which  you  have  heard 
(saith  he)  by  my  mouth:  for  John  indeed  baptized 
with  water,  but  you  shall  be  baptized  with  the  Holy 
Ghost  not  many  days  hence.  They  therefore  who 
were  come  together,  asked  him,  saying:  Lord,  wilt 
thou  at  this  time  restore  again  the  kingdom  of  Is- 
rael ?  But  he  said  to  them  :  It  is  not  for  yon  to  know 
the  times  or  moments,  which  the  Father  hath  put  in 
his  own  power  j  hutyou  shall  receive  the  power  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  coming  upon  you,  and  you  shall  be  wit- 
nesses to  me  in  Jerusalem,  and  in  all  Judea,  and  Sa- 
maria, and  even  to  the  uttermost  part  of  the  earth. 
And  when  he  had  finished  these  things,  while  they 
looked  on,  he  was  raised  up:  and  n  cloud  received 
him  out  of  their  sight.  And  while  they  were  be- 
holding him  going  up  to  heaven,  behold  two  men 
stood  by  them  in  white  garments.  Who  also  said: 
Ye  men  of  Galilee,  why  stand  you  looking  up  to 
heaven  ?  This  Jesus  who  is  taken  up  from  you  into 
heaven,  shall  so  come  as  you  have  seen  him  going 
into  heaven. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia*  V.  God  ascended  in  triumph, 
and  the  Lord  at  the  sound  of  the  trumpet.  Alleluia. 

I  •  The  Lord  on  Sina,  V.  Dominus  in  Sina,  in 
ia  his  holy  place,  ascend-  tan-; to,  asccnckns  in  uU 


,63  ASCENSION-DAY. 

ing   on    high,    hath  led     turn,  captivum  duxit  cap- 
captivity  captive.   Allel.      tivitatem.     Alleluia. 

(i!500pcL  Mark  xvi.  14.  20.— At  that  time: 
Jesus  appearedTto  the  eleven  as  they  were  at  table; 
and  he  upbraided  them  with  their  incredulity  and 
hardness  of  heart,  because  they  did  not  believe  them 
who  had  seen  him  after  he  was  risen  again*  And  he 
said  to  them :  Go  ye  into  the  whole  world,  and  preach 
the  gospel  to  every  creature.  He  that  believeth  and 
is  baptized,  shall  be  saved :  but  he  that  believeth  not 
shall  be  condemned.  And  these  signs  shall  follow 
them  that  believe:  In  my  name  they  shall  cast  out 
devils :  they  shall  speak  with  new  tongues :  they  shall 
take  up  serpents:  and  if  they  shall  drink  any  deadly 
thing,  it  shall  not  hurt  them:  they  shall  lay  their 
hands  upon  the  skk  and  they  shall  recover.  And 
the  Lord  Jesus,  after  he  had  spoken  to  them,  was 
taken  up  into  heaven,  and  sitteth  at  the  right-hand 
or  God.  But  they  going  preached  every  where  : 
the  Lord  working  withal,  and  confirming  the  word 
with  signs  that  followed.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xlvi.— God  ascended  in  triumph, 
and  the  Lord  at  the  sound  of  the  trumpet.  Allel. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
make  in  memory  of  the  glorious  ascension  of  thy 
Son  :  and  mercifully  grant,  that  wo  may  both  be 
delivered  from  present  danger,  and  arrive  at  everlast- 
ing life.  Thro'  the  same. 

COMMUNICANTES.  Being  united  in  commu- 
nion, and  celebrating  the  most  sacred  day  on  which 
our  Lord,  thy  only  begotten  Son,  placed  the  sub- 
stance of  our  frail  nature,  which  he  had  taken  upon 
himself,  on  the  right-hand  of  thy  glory,  and  honour, 
ing  the  memory  in  the  first  place,  &c.  as  in  the  Ordi- 
nary, p..  xxxiv. 

C  OMM.  Ps.  Ixvii.— Sing  to  the  Lord,  who  hath 
ascended  towards  the  east,  above  all  the  heavens 
Alleluia. 


SUNDAY  WITHIN  THE  OCTAVE.  3^9 

P.  OOMM.  IVtfsfa.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  almighty  and  most  merciful  God,  that  we  may 
obtain  the  invisible  Affects  of  the  visible  mysteries 
we  have  received.  Thro'. 


SUNDAY    within    the    OCTAVE    of 
The  ASCENSION. 

JNTROIT.     Ps.  xxvi. 

HEAR,  O  Lord,  my  T?XAUDl>  Domine,?*. 
voice,  with  which  T"^  ccm  ineamy  qua  cla- 
J  have  cried  out  to  thee.  mavi  ad  it.  Alltl,  Tili 
Alleluia.  My  heart  hath  dixit  cor  mcum:  Quasivi 
said  to  thee:  I  have  vultum  tnum  ;  vultum 
sought  thy  face:  I  will  tuum%  Do/nine  requiram  : 
seek  thy  face,  OLord:  ne. avtrtus  fdciem  t warn  a 
(urn  not  thy  face  from  me.  Alleluia,  Alleluia, 
me.  Alleluia,  Allel.  Ps.  Ps.  Dvmiaus  iliumina- 
The  Lord  is  my  light  and  tio  mea  et  saltts  mea  :  qua;*, 
my  salvation :  whom  timelo. 
shall  I  fear  ?  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotent.*—®  almighty  and  eter- 
nal  Goj,  inspire  thy  servants  with  true  devotion,  and 
grant  we  may  serve  thy  divine  Majesty  with  sincere 
hearts.  Thro1. 

Commem.  nftne  Ascension,  p.  366,  by  the  Collect, 
Secret,  and  P.  Comm.  thti <..•}'. 

EPIST.  i  Pet.  iv.  7.-.Most  dearly  b tU'cd ;  Be 
prudent,  and  watch  in  prayers.  But  before  all 
things  have  a  constant  mutual  charity  among  your- 
selves .  for  charity  covereth  a  multitude  of  sins.  Using 
hospitality  one  to  another  without  murmuring.  As 
every  man  hath  received  grace,  ministring  the  same 
one  to  another:  as  good  stewards  of  the  manifold 
grace  of  God.  If  any  man  speak,  let  him  speak  as  the 
words  of  God.  If  any  man  minister,  let  him  do  it  as 
of  the  power  which  Gpd  adminisiereth  :  that  in  all 


37°  SUNDAY  WITHIN  THE  OCTAVE. 

things  God  may  be  honoured  thro' Jesus  Christ :  to 
whom  is  glory  and  empire  for  ever  and  ever.  Amen. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  Lord  hath  extended 
his  empire  over  all  nations;  God  sitteth  on  his  holy 
throne.  Alleluia. 

V.  I  will  not  leave  you         V.   Nan  vos  rdinquam 
orphans :    I    am    going,     orphanos  ;    vado  et  venio 
but  I  will  come  to  you     ad   vos9    et  gaudebii  cor 
again,    and   your  hearts     vestrum.     Alleluia. 
shall  rejoice.    Alleluia. 

(00£fp£l.  John  xv.  26.  xvi.  1.4.—.^  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  When  the  Paraclete'cometh 
whom  I  will  send  you  from  the  Father,  the  Spirit  of 
truth,  who  proceedeth  from  the  Father,  he  shatl 
give  testimony  of  me :  and  you  shall  give  testimony, 
because  you  are  with  me  from  the  beginning.  These 
things  have  I  spoken  to  you,  that  you  may  not  be  scan- 
dalized. They  will  put  you  out  of  the  synagogues: 
yea  the  hour  cometh,  that  whosoever  kilieth  you, 
will  think  that  he  doth  a  service  to  God.  And  these 
things  they  will  do  to  you,  because  they  have  not 
known  the  Father,  nor  me.  But  these  things  I  have 
told  you  ;  that  when  the  hour  of  them  shall  come, 
you  may  remember  that  I  told  you  of  them.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xlvi.— God  ascended  in  triumph, 
and  the  Lord  at  the  sound  of  the  trumpet.  Allel. 

SECRET.  May  these  unspotted  sacrifices  purify 
us,  O  Lord  !  and  strengthen  our  souls  with  heavenly 
grace.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  xvii.— --Father,  when  I  was  with 
them,  I  kept  those,  whom  thou  gavest  me.  Alle- 
luia :  now  I  return  to  thee  :  I  do  not  pray  that  thou 
mayest  take  them  out  of  the  world,  but  that  thou 
wouldst  keep  them  from  evil.  Allel.  Allel. 

P.  COMM.  Rcpleti. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that  we  may  be  always  thankful  for  the  sa- 
cred  gifts  with  which  we  have  been  filled.  Thro*. 


t     37'     3 
WHITSUN-EVE. 

THE  Vigil  of  Pentecost,  like  that  of  Easter,  has  always 
been  consecrated  in  a  particular  manner  to  fasting  and 
prayer.     The  primitive  Christians,  after  the  usual  prayers 
of  me  day,  spent  the  greatest  part  of  the  night  in  the  church, 
qrid  hence  originates  the  word  Vigil  or  Wake. 

The  Mass,  like  that  of  Holy-Saturday,  is  preceded  by 
several  Lessons  and  Tracts  out  of  the  Old  Testament,  and  by 
the  Blessing  of  the  Font. 

I.  PROPHECY.     In  those  days ;  God  tempted 
Abraham,  p.  310. 

Let  us  pray.     Dens,  qiti. 

OGod,  who  by  this  action  of  thy  servant  Abra- 
ham, hast  given  to  mankind  an  excellent  ex- 
ample of  obedience;  grant  us,  both  to  break  our 
perverse  wills,  and  to  fulfil  thy  righteous  commands. 
Thro'. 

II.  PROPHECY.   In  those  days :  It  came  to  pass 
in  the  morning  watch,  and  TRACT,  Let  us  sing  to 
the  lord,  p.  312. 

Let  us  pray.     Deus,  qui  primis. 

OGod,  who,  by  the  light  of  the  New  Testament, 
hast  expounded  the  miracles  wrought  in  the 
first  ages  of  the  world;  so  that  the  Red  Sea  was  a 
figure  of  the  sacred  (bnt,  and  the  deliverance  of  thy 
people  out  of  Ejiypt  did  represent  the  Christian  sa« 
craments;  grant  that  all  nations,  who  have  now  ob- 
tained the  privilege  of  Israelites  by  the  merit  of 
faith,  may  be  born  again  by  the  participation  of  thy 
spirit.  Thro' — in  unity  of  the  same. 

III.  PROPHECY.  In  those  days:  Moses  wrote, 
77.319,  and  TRACT,  Give  ear,  p.  320. 

Let  us  pray.     Detts,  glorificatio. 

OGod,  the  glory  of  the  faithful  and  the  life  of 
the  righteous,  who  hast  instructed  us  also  by 
the  canticle  of  thy  servant  Moses:  grant  thy  mercy 
to  all  nations,  by  giving  them  happiness  and  dimt- 
-liing   their  frights,   that  the   revenge  threatened 
v»ay  turn  to  their  eternal  salvation.     Thro'. 


372  WHITSUN-EVE. 

IV.  PROPHECY.    In  that  day  seven  women,  p. 
317,  end  TRACT,  My  beloved  had,  p.  318. 

Let  us  pray.     Omnipotens. 

f\  Almighty" and  eternal  God,  who,  by  thy  only 
^  Son,  hast  shewn  the  care  thou  takest  of  thy 
Church  j  mercifully  cultivate  every  branch  which 
bringeth  forth  fruit  in  that  same  Christ,  who  is  the 
true  vine,  that  it  may  be  more  fruitful:  and  let  not 
the  .thorns  of  sin  prevail  against  thy  faithful,  whom 
thou  hast  brought  out  of  Egypt  by  the  baptismal 
font  j  but  protect  them  by  thy  holy  spirit,  that  they 
may  be  continually  enriched  by  the  fruits  of  good 
works.  Thro'  the  same — in  unity,  &rc. 

V.  PROPHECY.  Hear,  O  Israel,  p.  314. 

Let  us  pray,  Dens,  qui  nobis. 
s~\  God,  who  hast  commanded  us,  by  thy  prophets, 
^  to  relinquish  the  things  of  this  world,  and  to 
hasten  to  those  that  are  eternal ;  grant  that,  by  thy 
heavenly  inspiration,  we  may  comply  with  what  we 
know  thou  hast  commanded.  Thro'. 

VI.  PROPHECY      In  those  day* :  The  hand  of 
the  Lord,  p.  316. 

Let  us  pray.     Domine  Dms. 

r\  Lord  God  of  Hosts,  who  raisest  up  what  is  fal- 
^  len,  and  keepest  up  what  is  raised  j   increase  the 
number  of  those  who  are  to  be  renewed  by  thy  holy 
name  :  that  all  who  receive  holy  baptism,  may  al- 
ways he  governed  by  thy  holy  inspirations.    Thro'. 
While  the  Celebrant  goes  towards  the  Font  is  suid  the 
TRACT,  As  the  hart  panteth,  as  on  Holy  Satur- 
day, p.  323  ->  but  if  there  be  no  blessing  of  the,  Font 
then  is  sung  the  Litany,  p.  ^59. 

MASS  on  WH1TSUN-EVE. 
INTROIT.     Ezech.  xxxvi. 

When  I  shall  be  acknowledged  the  Holy  One 
amongst  you,  I  will  gather  you  from  all  parts  of  the 
world;  and  1  will  pour  upon  you  clean  water,  and 
you  shalj  be  cleansed  from  all  your  stains;  and  i, 


WHITSUN-EVE.  373 

will  give  you  a  new  spirit,  Alleluia,  Alleluia.     Ps. 
xxxiii.  I  will  for  ever  bless  the  Lord:  his  praise  shall 
be  always  in  my  mouth.     V.  Glory. 
£3"  The  Introit  is  only  said  at  Private  Masses,  when 
the  Prophecies,  &c.  have  been  omitted. 

COLLECT.  Preesta,  quasiunus. — Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  almighty  God,  that  the  rays  of  thj 
brightness  may  shine  upon  us;  and  that  the  light  of 
thy  light  may,  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit, 
strengthen  the  hearts  of  those  who  have  been  born 
again  by  thy  grace.  Thro' — in  unity,  &c. 

LESSON.  Acts  xix.  i.  &.— Jw  those  days:  It 
came  to  pass  while  Apollo  was  at  Corinth,  that  Paul 
having  passed  through  the  upper  coasts,  came  to 
Ephesus,  and  found  certain  disciples:  and  he  said  to 
them  :  Have  you  received  the  Holy  Ghost  since  you. 
believed?  But  they  said  to  him:  We  have  not  so 
much  as  heard  whether  there  be  a  Holy  Ghost.  And 
he  said:  In  what  then  were  you  baptized?  Who 
said:  In  John's  "baptism.  Then  Paul  said:  John 
baptized  the  people  with  the  baptism  of  penance, 
saying  :  That  they  should  believe  in  him  who  was 
to  come  after  him,  that  is  to  say,  in  Jesus.  Having 
heard  these  things,  they  were  baptized  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord  Jesus.  And  when  Paul  had  imposed 
his  hands  on  them,  the  Holy  Ghost  came  upon 
them,  and  they  spoke  with  tongues  and  prophesied. 
And  all  the  men  were  about  twelve.  And  entering 
into  the  synagogue,  he  spoke  boldly  for  the  space  of 
three  months,  disputing  and  persuading  concerning 
the  kingdom  of  God. 

Alleluia.  V.  Praise  the  Lord,  for  he  is  good  -9  and 
his  mercy  endureth  for  ever. 

TRACT.   Ps.  cxvi.  — Praise  the  Lord,  as  p.  327. 

(500ptl.     Ju/mxiv.  15, At  that  time:  Jesus 

said  to  his  disciples:  If  ye  love  me,  keep  my  com- 
mandments.    And  I  will  ask  the  Father,  and  he 
shall  give  you  another  Paraclete,  that  he  mav  abide 
I  i 


574  WHIT-SUNDAY. 

\vith  you  for  ever,  the  Spirit  of  truth,  whom  the 
i\orld  cannot  receive,  because  it  seeth  him  not,  nor 
knoweth  him  :  but  you  shall  know  him  ;  because  he 
shall  abide  with  you,  and  shall  be  in  you.  I  will 
not  leave  you  orphans:  I  will  come  to  }ou.  Yet  a 
little  while,  and  the  world  seeth  me  no  more.  But 
yon  see  me;  because  i  live,  and  you  shall  live.  In 
that  day  you  shall  know  that  lam  in  iny  Father, 
and  you  in  me,  and  I  in  you.  He  that  hath  my 
commandments,  and  keeptth  them,  he  it  is  that 
loveth  me.  And  he  that  loveth  me,  shall  he  loved 
by  my  Father:  and  J  will  love  hirn,  and  will  mani- 
fest myself  to  him. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cm.  —  Send  forth  thy  spirit,  and 
they  shall  be  created  ;  and  thou  wilt  renew  the  face 
of  the  earth  ;  let  the  glory  of  the  Lord  be  for  ever- 
more, Alleluia. 

The  Preface,  as  in  the  Ordinary,  p.  xxxii. 

Secret   and   Communicantes,  as   to  morrow,  p.  377. 

The  Mane  Jgitur,  «ts  on  Easter-  Sunday,  p   331. 

COMM.  J\-,hn  vii.~  The  last  day  ol  the  feast 
Jesus  said  :  Whoever  believeth  in  me,  rivers  ot  living 
water  shall  flow  from  his  heart:  and  this  he  said  of 
the  spirit,  which  those  were  to  receive  who  should 
believe  in  him,  Alleluia,  Alleluia 

P.  COMM.    (Sancti  Spirit  us)  as  to-morrow,  p,  378. 


HpOOK  its  name  from  the  circumstance  of  the  newly- 
JL  baptized  among  our  English  ancestors  assisting 
at  Mass  in  the  white  garments  they  yesterday  received 
*t  the  baptismal  font.  Its  ecclesiastical  name  Pentecost 
signifies  the  fiftieth^  because  the  mystery  which  it  celebrates 
was  accomplished  on  fatjtftietk  djy  after  Christ's  resurrec- 
tion. The  object  of  this  gre;;t  Festival  is,  to  return  thanks 
eo  God  for  the  visible  descent  of  the  Holy  Ghost  on  the 
apostles,  —  the  establishment  '  Vvv,  :?nd  propaga- 

tion of  our  holy  religion, 


WHIT-SUNDAY*  377 

INTRO1T.     Wisd.l 

r"PHE  spirit  of  the  Lord      OPi"itus   Domini  r&plt. 
^    hath  filled  the  whole     °     vit  orbcrn   terrarum, 
earth,  Alleluia  :  and  the     AlUiuia  :  tt  hoc  quod  con. 
whole      universe      hath     tinet  omni ancient iumhubtt 
heard  his  voice,  Alleluia,     vocis,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
Alleluia.     Ps.    Let  God         Ps.   Evurgat   Dcus,  et 
arise,  and  his  enemies  be     dissipentur   ininiici  ejus  i 
dispersed:  let  them  who     et  Jugiant,    qui    odtrunt 
hate  him,   fly  betore  his     eumt  a  facie,  tjus. 
face.      y.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dens,  qui.—O  God,  who,  by  the 
light  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  didst  this  day  instruct  the 
hearts  of  the  faithful  ;  grant,  by  the  direction  of  the 
same  Holy  Spirit,  that  we  may  relish  what  is  right, 
and  always  enjoy  his  consolation.  Thro1— in  the 
unity  of  the  same,  &c. 

LESSON.    Acts  ii.  i.  n.-— When  the  days  of 
Pentecost  were  accomplished,  they  were  all  together 
in   one   place  ;  and  suddenly  there  came  a  sound 
from  heaven,  as  of  a  mighty  wind  coming,   and  it 
filled  the  whole  house  where  they  were  sitting.  And 
there  appeared  to  them  parted  tongues  as  it  were  of 
fire,  and  it  sat  upon  every  one  of  them :  and  they 
were  all  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  they  began 
to  speak  wiih  divers  tongues  according  as  the  Holy 
Ghost  gave  them  to  speak.     Now  there  were  dwell- 
i'ig  at  Jerusalem  Jews,  devout  men  out  of  every  na- 
tion  under   heaven.     And  when  this   was   noised 
abroad,    the    multitude    came   together,  and  were 
:i  founded  in  mind,   because  that  every  man  heard 
them  speak  in   his  own  tongue.     And  they  were  all 
amazed  and  wondered,  saying:  Behold,  are  not  all 
these,  that  speak,  Galileans,  and  how  have  we  heard, 
every  man  our  own  tongue  wherein  we  were  born  ? 
Parthians,  and  Medes,  and  Elamites,  and  inhabitants 
of  Mesopotamia,   jtidea,  and   Cappadocia,   Pontus 
and  Asia,  Phrygia,  and  Pamphilia,  Kgypt  and  the 
I  i  2 


3/6  WHIT-SUNDAY. 

parts  of  Lybia  about  Cyrene,  and  strangers  of  Rome* 
Jews  also  and  Proselytes,  Cretes  and  Arabians :  we 
have  heard  them  speak  in  our  own  tongues  the 
wonderful  \\  orks  of  God.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Send  forth  thy  spi-         V.  Ps.  ciii.  Emltte  spi- 
rit, and  they  shall  be  ere-     ritum  tuum   et   creabun- 
ated,  and  thou  wilt  renew     tur,   et   renovabis  facicm 
the   face    of  the   earth,     terrt?,  Alleluia. 
Alleluia. 

V.  *  Come,    O  Holy        V.  *  Veni,  Sancte  Spu 
Ghost,    fill  the  hearts  of    ritus,  reple  tuorum  corda 
thy  faithful,  and  kindle  in    fideliu?nt  et  tui  amor  is  in 
them  the  fire  of  thy  love,     eis  igntm  accende. 
The  PROSE. 

VRNI    Sancte  Spiritus,  et  emitte  coelitus  lucis 
tuge  radium. 

Veni  Pater  pauperum ;    veni   dator  munerum : 
veni  lumen  cordium. 

Consolator  optime:  dulcis  hospes  animce:  dulce 
refrigerium. 

In  labore  requies:  in  sestu  temperies,  in  fletu  so- 
latium. 

O  lux  beatissima,  reple  cordis  intima  tuorum  fide- 
lium. 

Sine  tuo  numlne,  nihil  est  in  homine  :  nihil  est  in* 
noxium. 

Lava  quod  est  sordidum,  riga  quod  est  aridum, 
saua  quod  est  saucium. 

Flecte  quod  est  rigidum,  fove  quod  est  frigidum, 
rege  quod  est  devium. 

Da  tuis  tidelibus,  in  te  confitentibus,  sacrum  sep- 
tenarium. 

Da  virtutis  meritum,  da  salutis  exitum,  da  perenne 
gaudium.     Amen.     Alleluia. 

(BO^ptl^.      John  xiv.    23.   31. At  that    time: 

Jesus  said  to  his  disciples;  If  auy  one  love  me,  he 
will  keep  my  word,  and  my  Father  will  love  him, 
At  this  V.  *all  kneel  down  at  every  Mass  till  Sunday  next. 


WHIT-SUNDAY.  377 

and  \ve  will  come  to  him,  and  will  make  our  abode 
with  him:  he  that  loveth  me  not,  keepeth  not  my 
words.  And  the  word  which  you  have  heard,  is  not 
mine  :  but  tiie  Father's  who  sent  me.  These  things 
have  I  spoken  to  you,  abiding  with  you.  But  the 
Paraclete,  the  Holy  Ghost,  whom  the  Father  will 
send  in  my  name,  he  will  teach  you  all  tilings,  and 
bring  alTthings  to  your  mind,  whatsoever  I  shall 
have  said  to  you.  Peace  1  leave  with  you,  my  peace 
I  give  to  you  ;  not  as  the  world  giveth,  do  J  give  to 
you.  Let  not  your  heart  be  troubled,  nor  let  it  be 
afraid.  You  have  heard  that  I  have  said  to  you ; 
1  go  away  and  I  come  again  to  you,  If  you  loved 
me,  you  would  indeed  be  glad,  because  I  go  to  the 
Father:  for  the  Father  is  greater  than  1.  And  now 
I  have  told  you  before  it  come  to  pass :  that  when 
it  shall  come  to  pass,  you  may  believe.  1  will  not 
now  speak  many  things  with  you.  For  the  prince 
of  this  world  cometh,  and  in  me  he  hath  not  any 
thing.  But  that  the  world  may  know  that  I  love 
the  Father:  and  as  the  Father  hath  given  me  com- 
mandment, so  do  I.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixvii.—  Confirm,  O  God,  what 
thou  hast  wrought  in  us,  from  thy  holy  temple, 
which  is  in  Jerusalem:  kings  shall  bring  thee  their 
offerings.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
il;e>e  oblations  and  purify  our  hearts  by  the  light  of 
the  Holy  Ghost.  Thro'-— in  the  unity  of,  &c. 

COMMUNICANTFS.  Being  united  in  communion, 
and  celebrating  the  sacred  day  of  Pentecost,  on  which 
the  Holy  Ghost  appeared  to  the  apostles  under  the 
form  of  innumerable  tongues:  and  honouring  the 
memory,  &c.  a  a  in  the  Ordinary,  page  xxxiv.  Hanc 
Igitur,  o.v  in  the.  Mats  of  Easter  Sunday,  p.  331. 

COMM.     Acts  it. ---Suddenly  there  came  a  noi^e 
from   heaven,  as  of  a  strong  rushing  wind,  where 
they  were  sitting,  Alleluia:  and  they  were  all  filled 
li  3 


37$  WHIT-MONDAY. 

with  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  published  the  wonderful 
works  of  God.     Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Sancti  Spirit  us  —  May  the  pouring 
forth  of  the  Holy  Ghost  into  our  hearts  cleanse 
them,  O  Lord,  and  render  them  fruitful  by  the  in- 
ward dew  of  his  grace.  Thro'  our  Lord—  in  the 
unity  of  the  same,  &c. 


JNTRO1T. 

TTE  hath  fed  them  with  (**IBAV1T  cos  ex  adipe 
the  finest  wheat,  Al-  r**  frumenti,  Alleluia: 
leluia  :  and  filled  them  et  de  petra  mdle  satura- 
with  honey  from  the  vit  cos.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
rock.  Allel.  Allel.  Ps.  Ps.  Exultate  Deo  ad'/u. 
Rejoice  in  God  our  aid  :  tori  nostro  ;  jubilate  Deo 
sing  to  the  God  of  Jacob.  Jacob. 

V.  Glory.  V.   Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.  —  Q  God,  who  didst 
give  the  Holy  Ghost  to  thy  apostles,  hear  the  pray* 
ers  of  thy  people,  that  they  may  enjoy  a  happy 
peace,  who,  by  thy  grace,  have  received  the  gift  of 
true  faith. 

LKSbON.  Acts  x.  42.  48,  —  In  those  days  :  Peter 
opening  hi*  wouth,  said:  Brethren,  the  Lord  com- 
manded us  to  preach  to  the  people,  and  to  testify 
that  it  is  he  who  was  appointed  by  God  to  be 
judge  of  the  living  and  of  the  dead.  To  him  all 
the  prophets  _;ive  testimony,  that  thro*  his  name  all 
receive  remission  of  sins,  who  believe  in  him.  While 
Peter  was  yet  speaking  these  words,  the  Holy  Ghost 
fell  on  all  them  that  heard  the  word.  And  the 
faithful  of  the  circumcision,  who  came  with  Peter, 
were  astonished,  for  that  the  grace  of  the  Holy 
Ghost  was  poured  out  upon  the  Gentiles  also.  For 
they  heard  them  speaking  with  tongues,  and  magni- 
fying God.  Then  Peter  answered:  Can  any  man 
forbid  water,  that  these-  men  should  not  be  baptized, 


WHIT-MONDAY.  379 

who  have  received  the  Holy  Ghost  as  well  as  we  ? 
And  he  commanded  them  to  be  baptized  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

V.  The  apostles  pub-  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  \\ 
lished  in  divers  tongues  3.,oquebantur  variis  tin* 
the  wonderful  works  of  guis  apostoli  magnalia 
God.  Alleluia.  Dei.  Alleluia. 

V.  *  Come,  O  Holy  Ghost,  with  the   Prose,  Veni 

Sancte  Spiritus,  us  in  the  Mass  of  Yesterday,  p,  376. 

(000pCU     John  iii.  16. At   that  time  \  Jesus 

said  to  Xicodemus :  God  so  loved  the  world,  as  to 
give  his  only  begotten  Son;  that  whosoever  believ. 
eih  in  him,  may  not  perish,  but  may  have  life  ever- 
lasting. For  God  sent  not  his  Son  into  the  world, 
to  judge  the  world,  but  that  the  world  may  be  saved 
by  him.  He  that  believeth  in  him,  is  not  judged. 
But  he  that  doth  not  believe,  is  already  judged  :  be- 
cause he  believeth  not  in  the  name  of  the  only  be- 
gotten Son  of  God.  And  this  is  the  judgment ;  be- 
cause the  light  is  come  into  the  world,  and  men  loved 
darkness  rather  than  light :  for  their  works  were  evil. 
For  every  one  that  doth  evil  hateth  the  light,  and 
cometh  not  to  the  light,  that  their  works  may  not 
be  reproved.  But  he  that  doth  truth,  cometh  to 
the  light,  that  his  works  may  be  made  manifest,  be- 
cause  they  are  done  in  God.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xvii.— The  Lord  thundered  from 
heaven,  and  the  Most  High  made  himself  heard: 
the  spring- heads  of  the  waters  appeared.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  sanctity,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  these  offerings,  and,  having  accepted  the 
oblation  of  our  spiritual  victim,  make  ourselves  an 
offering  pleasing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

COMM.     Ju/in   xiv The    Holy  Ghost    shall 

teach  you,  Alleluia,  whatever  I  shall  say  to  you. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  ,;,/W().._.ne!p,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  1  defend,  from  the  fury  of  ihirir 


3?0  WHIT-TUESDAY. 

enemies,  those  whom  thou  hast  fed  with  thy  sacted 
mysteries.  Thro*. 

WHIT-TUESDAY. 

INTROIT.  Receive  your  glory  with  joy,  Alle- 
luia: giving  thanks  to  God,  Alleluia,  who  hath  call- 
ed you  to  a  heavenly  kingdom.  Allel.  Allel.  Allel. 
Ps.  Give  ear  my  people  to  my  law ;  hearken  to  the 
words  of  my  mouth.  F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Aclsit. — Assist  us,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  with  the  power  of  thy  holy  spirit,  that 
our  hearts  may  be  purified,  according  to  thy  mercy, 
and  we  defended  from  all  adversities.  Thro'. 

LESSON.     Acts  viii.   14.   17. In  those   days: 

When  the  apostles  that  were  in  Jerusalem,  had  heard 
that  Samaria  had  received  the  word  of  God  :  they 
sent  to  them  Peter  and  John.  Who  when  they 
•were  come,  prayed  for  them,  that  they  might  re- 
ceive  the  Holy  Ghost.  Tor  he  was  not  as  yet  come 
upon  any  of  them:  but  they  were  only  baptized  in 
the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus.  Then  they  laid  their 
hands  upon  them,  and  they  received  the  Holy  Ghost. 

Alleluia,   Alleluia.     V.   The  Holy   Ghost   shall 
teach  you  whatever  I  shall  say  to  you.     Alleluia. 
V.  *  Come,  O  Holy  Ghost,   with  the  Prose,  Veni 

Sancte  Spiritus,  as  on  Sunday,  p.  376. 
tiDOSptU  John  x.  i.  I'j^—At  that  time  ;  Jesus 
said  to  the  Pharisees :  Amen,  amen  I  say  to  you  : 
he  that  entereth  not  by  the  door  into  the  sheepfold, 
but  climbeth  up  another  way,  the  same  is  a  thief 
and  a  robber.  But  he  that  entereth  in  by  the  door 
is  the  shepherd  of  the  sheep.  To  him  the  porter 
openeth;  and  the  sheep  hear  his  voice:  and  he  call- 
cth  his  own  sheep  by  name,  and  leadeth  them  out. 
And  when  he  hath  let  out  his  own  sheep,  he  goeth 
before  them :  and  the  sheep  follow  him,  because 
they  know  his  voice.  But  a  stranger  they  follow  not, 
but  fly  from  him,  because  they  know  not  the  yoige 


£MBEH-  WEDNESDAY.  381 

of  strangers.  This  proverb  Jesus  spoke  to  them. 
But  they  understood  not  what  lie  was  speaking  to 
them.  Jesus  therefore  said  to  them  again  :  Amen, 
amen  f  say  to  yon,  I  am  the  door  of  the  sheep.  All 
others,  as  many  as  have  come,  are  thieves  and  rob- 
bers :  and  the  sheep  heard  them  not.  I  am  the  door. 
By  me  if  any  man  enter  in,  he  shall  be  saved  :  and 
he  shall  go  in,  and  go  out,  and  shall  find  pastures. 
The  thief  cometh  not,  but  for  to  steal,  and  to  kill, 
and  to  destroy.  I  am  come  that  they  may  have  life, 
and  may  have  it  more  abundantly.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxvii. The  Lord  opened  for 

them  the  gates  of  heaven^  and  rained  down  manna 
for  them  to  cat :  he  gave  them  the  bread  of  heaven, 
men  ate  the  bread  of  angels.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  May  the  oblation  of  this  sacrifice  pu- 
rify us,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  and  make  us  wor- 
thy to  partake  thereof.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Mn  xv The  Spirit  who  proceedeth 

from  tli e  Father,  Alleluia:  shall  glorify  me.  Alle- 
luia, Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Mrutcs. —  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that  the  Holy  Ghost  may  renew  our  souls 
by  these  divine  mysteries,  since  he  is  the  remission 
of  sin.  Thro'— -in  the  unity  of  the  same. 

EMBER-WEDNESDAY. 

INTROIT.  P.v  lxvii.—0  God,  when  thou  didst 
go  forth  before  thy  people,  making  a  way  for  them 
and  dwelling  in  the  midst  of  them.  Alleluia,  the 
earth  shook,  and  the  heavens  dropt  dew,  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  Ps.  Let  God  arise,  and  let  his  enemies  be 
dispersed:  let  those  that  hate  him  fly  before  his 
face.  V.  Glory. 

I.  COLLECT.  Me  files  notfras.T-May  the  Holy 
Ghost,  who  proceedeth  from  thee,  enlighten,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  our  hearts,  and  guide  us  into 


3^2  EMEER- WEDNESDAY. 

all  truth,  according  to  the  promise  of  thy  Son.   Who 
— in  unify  of  the  same. 

I.  LESSON.     Acts  ii.   14.   21.  —  In  those  days  \ 
Peter  standing  up  with  the   eleven,    lifted   up   his 
voice,  and  spoke  to  them :  Ye  men  of  Judea,  and 
all  you  that  dwell  in  Jerusalem,   be  this  known  to 
you   and   with   your  ears  receive   my  words.     For 
these  are  not  drunk,  as  you  suppose,  seeing  it  is  but 
the  third  hour  of  the  day  :  But  this  is  that  which 
was  spoken  of  by  the  prophet  Joe!  :  "  And  it  shall 
come  to  pass  in  the  last  days  (saith  the  Lord)  I  will 

-  pour  out  my  spirit  upon  all  flesh:  and  your  sons 
and  your  daughters  shall  prophesy,  and  your  young 
men  shall  see  visions,  and  your  old  men  shall  dream, 
dreams.  And  upon  my  servants  indeed,  and  upon 
my  handmaids,  will  I  pour  out  in  those'days  o*'  my 
spirit,  and  they  shall  prophesy  :  and  I  will  shew 
wonders  in  the  heaven  above,  and  signs  on  the  earth 
beneath  ;  blood,  and  fire,  and  vapour  of  smoke  : 
the  sun  shall  be  turned  into  darkness,  and  the  moon 
into  blood,  before  the  great  and  manifest  day  of  the 
Lord  come.  And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  who- 
soever shall  call  upon  the  name  of  the  Lord,  shall  be 
saved." 

Alleluia.  V.  Ps.  xxxii.  The  heavens  were  found- 
ed by  the  word  of  the  Lord,  all  their  host  by  the 
breath  of  his  mouth. 

II.  COLLECT.     Prasta,  qu&sumus.  —  Grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  almighty  and  most  merciful  God, 
that  thy  holy  spirit  may  defend  and  dwell  in  our 
souls,  and  so  thoroughly  purify  us,   that  we  may  at 
length  become  the  temple  of  his  glory.     Thro'. 
1'rom  this  day   to  Saturday  next  inclusivtfy,  after  the 

Collect  of  the  day,  is  said  either  the  Collect,  Ec- 
clesiae  tuae,  or  Dens  omnium,  together  tilth  their 
Secrets  and  P.  Comm.  as  on  the  first  Sunday  of 
Advent,  p.  50,  &c« 


EM2ER  WEDNESDAY.  383 

II.  LESSON.  Acts  v.  12.  16.— In  those  fays : 
Were  many  signs  and  wonders  wrought  among  the 
people.  And  they  wr re  all  with  one  accord  in  So- 
lomon's porch.  But  of  the  rest  no  man  durst  join 
himself  with  them  j  but  the  people  magnified  thun. 
And  the  multitude  of  men  and  women  that  believed 
in  the  Lord  was  more  increased  ;  insomuch  thai 
they  brought  forth  the  sick  into  the  street?,  and  laid 
them  on  beds  and  couches,  that  when  Peter  came, 
his  shadow  at  least  might  overshadow  any  of  them, 
and  they  might  be  delivered  from  their  infirmities. 
And  there  came  also  together  to  Jerusalem  a  multi- 
tude out  of  the  neighbouring  cities,  bringing  sick 
persons,  and  such  as  were  troubled  with  unclean 
spirits,  who  were  all  healed. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  *  Come,  O  Holy  Ghost, 
with  ths  Prose  us  fo;i;/r,  />.  376. 

d500pel  +  John  vi.  44.  52.  —  At  that  tiwe\ 
J«-x//s  said  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jews  ;  No  man  can 
come  to  me,  except  the  Father,  who  hath  sent  me, 
draw  him;  and  I  will  raise  him  up  at  the  last  day. 
It  is  written  in  the  prophets:  "And  they  shall  all 
be  taught  of  God.*  Every  one  that  hath  heard  of 
the  Father,  and  hath  learned,  cometh  to  me.  Not 
that  any  man  hath  seen  the  Father,  but  he  who  is  of 
God,  he  hath  seen  the  Father.  Amen,  amen  I  say 
to  you  :  He  that  believeth  in  me  hath  everlasting 
life.  I  am  the  brer-id  of  life.  Your  fathers  did  eat 
manna  in  the  desart,  and  are  dead.  This  is  the 
bread  which  cometh  down  from  heaven:  that  if  any 
man  eat  of  if,  he  may  not  die.  I  am  the  living 
bread  which  came  down  from  heaven.  If  any  man 
eat  of  this  bread,  he  shall  live  for  ever:  and  the  bread 
that  [  will  give,  is  my  flesh  for  the  life  of  the  world. 

OFFERT.  l\i.  xviii.— - 1  will  meditate  on  thy 
commandments,  which  I  have  loved  very  much  ;  and 
I  will  put  in  practice  thy  commandments,  which  I 
>ved,  Alleluia-. 


384  THURSDAY  IN  WHITSUN  WEEK. 

SECRET.  Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  OLord, 
this  offering,  and  grant  that  we  may  celebrate  with 
piety  these  sacred  mysteries.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  xiv.— I  leave  you  peace.  Alleluia. 
I  give  you  my  peace,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Sumciites Having  partaken,  O 

Lord,  of  thy  heavenly  sacraments,  we  beseech  thy 
clemency  that  we  may  enjoy  the  effects  of  the  mys- 
teries we  celebrate  in  time,  in  an  eternity  of  bliss. 
Thro*. 

THURSDAY  IN  WHLTSUN-WEEK. 

Alias  on  Whit-Sunday,  p.  375,  except 
LESSON.  Ads  viii.  5.  9.—  In  those  days  :  Philip 
going  down  to  the  city  of  Samaria,  preached  Christ 
to  them.  And  the  people  with  one  accord  v.  ere  at- 
tentive to  those  things,  which  were  said  by  Philip, 
hearing  and  seeing  the  miracles  which  he  did.  For 
many  of  them  who  had  unclean  spirits,  crying  with 
a  loud  voice  went  out.  And  many  taken  with  the 
palsy,  that  were  lame,  were  healed.  And  there  was 
a  great  joy  in  that  city. 

Cl500p0lf  Luke  \x.  i.  6.— At  that  time:  Jesus 
calling  together  the  twelve  apostles,  he  save  them 
power  and  authority  over  all  devils,  and  to  cure  dis- 
eases. And  he  sent  them  to  preach  the  kingdom  of 
God,  and  to  heal  tne  sick.  And  he  said  to  them  : 
Take  nothing  for  your  journey,  neither  staff,  nor 
scrip,  nor  bread,  nor  money,  neither  have  two  coats. 
And  whatsoever  house  you  shall  enter  into,  abide 
there,  and  depart  not  from  thence.  And  whosoever 
will  not  receive  you  :  when  you  go  out  of  that  city, 
shake  off  even  the  dust  of  your  feet  for  a  testimony 
against  them.  And  going  out  they  went  about 
through  the  towns  preaching  the  gospel  and  healing 
every  where.  CREDO. 


t  385  ) 

feMBER-FRIDAY. 

1NTR01T.  Ps.  Ixx.-  -Lrt  my  mouth  be  filled 
with  thy  praise,  Alleluia:  that  I  may  sing,  Alleluia: 
my  lips  shall  rejoice,  when  I  sing  to  thee,  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  PS*  O  Lord,  in  thee  have  I  hoped,  never 
let  me  be  put  to  shame:  but  deliver  me  and  rescue 
me  according  to  thy  justice.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Da,  guasumus Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  most  merciful  God,  that  thy  Church, 
being  assembled  by  thy  holy  spirit,  may  in  no  man- 
ner be  molested  with  the  disturbance  of  enemies. 
Thro'. 

LESSON.  Jnel\'\.  23.  ij.—T/ms  saith  the  Lord 
God:  And  you,  O  children  ofSion,  rejoice,  and 
be  joyful  in  the  Lord  your  God:  because  he 
hath  'given  you  a  teacher  of  justice,  and  he  will 
make  the  early  and  the  latter  rain  to  come  down 
for  you  as  in  the  beginning,  and  the  floors  shall  be 
filled  with  wheat,  and  the  presses  shall  overflow 
with  wine  and  oil.  And  I  will  restore  to  you  the 
years  which  the  locust,  and  the  bruchus,  and  the 
mildew,  and  the  palmer-worm  hath  eaten:  my 
great  host  which  i  have  sent  upon  you.  And  you 
shall  eat  in  plenty  and  shall  be  filled  :  and  you 
shall  praise  the  name  of  the  Lord  your  God,  who 
hath  done  wonders  with  you,  and  my  people  shall 
not  be  confounded  for  ever.  And  you  shall  know 
that  1  am  in  the  mid«t  of  Israel;  and  I  am  the  Lord 
your  God,  and  there  is  none  besides :  and  my  peo- 
ple shall  not  be  confounded  for  ever,  saith  the  Lord 
Almighty. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  O  how  good  and  sweet  Is 
the  spirit  in  us,  O  Lord!  Alleluia.  V.  *Come,  O 
Holy  Ghost,  &c.  with  Me  Prose,  p.  376. 

d50£»pei,     Luke   v.    17.   26   —  At  that  lime: 
It  came  to  pass  on  a  certain  day,  that  Jesus  sat  teach* 
K  Ic 


KMBER-FKIDAY. 

ing.  And  there  were  Pharisees  and  doctors  of  the 
law  sitting  by,  that  were  come  out  of  every  town  of 
Galilee  and  Judea  and  Jerusalem  ;  and  the  power  of 
the  Lord  was*  to  heal  them.  And  behold  men 
brought  in  a  bed,  a  man  who  had  the  palsy:  and 
they  sought  means  to  bring  him  in,  and  to  lay  him. 
before  him.  And  when  they  could  not  find  by  what 
way  they  might  bring  him  in,  because  of  the  multi- 
tude, they  went  up  upon  the  roof,  and  let  him 
down  through  the  tiles  with  his  bed  in  the  midst, 
before  Jesus.  And  when  he  saw  their  faith,  he  said; 
Man,  thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee.  And  the  Scribes 
and  the  Pharisees  began  to  think,  saying :  Who  is 
this  who  speaketh  blasphemies  ?  Who  can  forgive 
sins,  but  God  alone  ?  And  when  Jesus  knew  their 
thoughts,  answering  he  said  to  them  :  What  is  it 
you  think  in  your  hearts  ?  Which  is  easier  to  say  ? 
Thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee;  or  to  say:  arise  and 
walk  ?  But  that  you  may  know  that  the  Son  of  Man 
hath  power  on  earth  to  forgive  sins,  (he  saith  to  the 
sick  of  the  palsy)  I  say  to  thee,  arise,  take  up  thy 
bed,  and  go  into  thy  house.  And  immediately  ris- 
ing up  before  them,  he  took  up  the  bed  on  which  he 
lay  ;  and  he  went  away  to  his  own  house,  glorifying 
God.  And  all  were  astonished:  and  they  glorified 
God.  And  they  were  filled  with  fear,  saying:  We 
have  seen  wonderful  things  to-day. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxlv. — Praise  the  Lord,  O  my 
soul  j  whilst  I  live  I  will  praise  the  Lord  :  I  will 
sing  praises  to  my  God,  while  I  have  a  being.  Al» 
ieluia. 

SECRET.  May  the  sacrifice  offered  in  thy  pre- 
sence, O  Lord,  be  consumed  by  the  same  divine 
fire,  by  which  the  Holy  Ghost  inflamed  the  hearts 
of  the  disciples  of  the  Christ  thy  Son.  Thro*  the 
same — in  unity  of  the  same. 

COMM.  John  xiv, — I  will  not  leave  you  orphans; 


EMBER. SATURDAY.  3^7 

I  will  come  to  you  again,  Alleluia :  and  your  hearts 
shall  be  glad,  Alleluia. 

P.  CO  MM.  SuMpsitHiit.  —  Having  received,  © 
Lord,  these  sacred  mystic  gifts,  we  humbly  beg, 
that  what  thou  hast  ordered  us  to  do  in  remem- 
brance of  thee.  may  become  a  help  to  our  weakness. 
Thro'. 

EMBER-SATURDAY. 

1NTROIT.  How.  v.-— The  love  of  God  is  pour- 
ed into  our  hearts,  Alleluia,  by  his  spirit  that  dwell- 
ed in  us  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Ps.  cii.  O  my  soul, 
bless  thou  the  Lord,  and  all  that  is  within  me,  bless 
his  holy  name.  V.  Glory, 

I.  COLLECT.     Enrich,  O  Lord,  our  hearts  by  a 
plentiful  effusion  of  thy  Holy  Spirit,  by  whose  wis- 
dom we  were  created,   and  by  whose  providence  we 
are  governed.      Thro*— -in  unity  of  the  same. 

I.  f,ESSON.  Joelu.  28.  ga.— 2%tt*  saith  Hie  Lord 
God;  1  will  pour  out  my  spirit  upon  all  flesh:  and 
your  sons  and  your  daughters  shall  prophesy  ;  your 
old  men  shall  dream  dreams  and  your  young  men 
shall  see  visions.  Moreover  upon  my  servants  and 
handmaids  in  tho^e  days  I  will  pour  forth  my  spirit. 
And  1  will  shew  wonders  in  heaven  ;  and  in  earth, 
biood,  and  fire,  and  vapour  of  smoke.  The  sim 
shall  be  turned  into  darkness,  and  the  moon  into 
blood;  before  the  great  and  dreadful  day  of  the 
Lord  shall  come.  And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that 
every  one  that  shall  call  upon  the  name  of  the  Lord, 
shall  be  saved.  A I  lei. 

/'.  John  vi.  It  is  the  spirit  that  giveth  life:  but  the 
flesh  availeth  nothing. 

II.  COLLECT,   lllo  w\s...-Let  thy  holy  spirit,  O 
Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  kindle  in  our  breasts  that 
lire,  which  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  brought  on  earth, 
and  earnestly  desired  it  should  burn.  \\  ho  llveth. 

Kkz 


338  EMBER-SATURDAY. 

II.  LESSON.     Lev.  xxiii.   9.  21. —  In  those  days0. 
The  Lord   spoke  to  Moses,  saying:  Speak  to  the 
children  of  Israel,  and   thou  shall  say   to   them  i 
When  you  shall  have  entered  into  the  land,  which  1 
will  give  you,  and  shall  reap  your  corn,  you  shall 
bring  sheaves  of  ears,  the  first-fruits  of  your  harvest, 
to  the  priest :  who  shall  lift  up  the  sheaf  before  the 
Lord,  the  next  day  after  the  Sabbath,  that  it  may 
be  acceptable  for  you,  and  shall  sanctify  it.     You 
shall  count  therefore  from  the  morrow  after  the 
Sabbath,  wherein  you  offered  the  sheaf  of  the  first- 
fruits,    seven  full   week?,    even   unto  the  morrow 
after  the  seventh  week  be  expired,  that  is  to  say,  fif- 
ty days,  and  so  you  shall  offer  a  new  sacrifice  to 
the  Lord.      Out  of  all  your  dwellings,  two  loaves 
of  the  first-fruits,  of  two   tenths  of  flour  leavened, 
which  you  shall  bake  for  the  first-fruits  of  the  Lord, 
And  you  shall  call  this  day  most  solemn,  and  most 
holy.     You  shall   do  no  servile  work  therein.     It 
shall  be  an  everlasting  ordinance  in  all  your  dwell- 
ings and  generations,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty.  Allel. 

"/r.  Job  xxvi.     His  spirit  hath  adorned  the  heavens. 

III.  COLL.  Deus — O  God,  who,  for  the  heal- 
ing  our  souls,  commandest  us  to  mortify  our  bodies 
by  fasting  :  mercif  jlly  grant  that  we  may  faithfully 
serve  thee  both  with  body  and  soul.  Thro'. 

ill.  LESSON.  DCM*.  xxvi.  i.  1 1.-~ In  those  days: 
Moses  said  to  the  children  of  Israel :  Hear,  0  Israel, 
what  I  command  you  this  day.  When  thou  art  come 
into  the  land  which  the  Lord  thy  God  will  give  thee 
to  possess,  and  hast  conquered  it,  and  dwellest  in  it; 
thou  shalt  take  the  first  of  all  thy  fruits,  and  put 
them  in  a  basket,  and  shalt  £o  to  a  place  which  the 
Lord  thy  God  shall  choose,  that  his  name  may  be 
invocated  there  ;  and  thon  shalt  go  to  the  priest  that 
shall  be  in  those  days,  and  say  to  him :  I  profess 
this  day  before  the  Lord  thy  God,  who  heard  us, 
and  looked  down  upon  our  aiiiiction,  and  labour, 


IMBER-SATURDAY.  389 

and  Distress:  and  brought  us  out  of  Egypt  with  a 
strong  hand,  and  a  stretched  out  arm,  with  great 
teiror,  with  signs  and  wonders  :  and  brought  us  into 
this  place,  and  gave  us  this  land,  flowing  with  milk 
and  honey.  And  therefore  now  I  offer  the  first- 
fruits  of  the  land  which  the  Lord  hath  given  me. 
And  thou  sbalt  leave  them  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord 
thy  God,  adoring  the  Lord  thy  God.  And  thou 
shalt  feast  in  all  the  good  things  which  the  Lord  thy 
God  hath  given  thee.  Alleluia. 

V.  Acts  ii.  When  the  days  of  Pentecost  were 
completed,  they  were  all  sitting  together. 

IV.  COLLECT.  Prasla,  quaxumus. — Grant,  we 
beseech *thee,  O  Almighty  God,  .hat,  being  instruct* 
ed  by  these  holy  (asts,  we  may  uvoid  all  vice,  and 
more  easily  obtain  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

IV.  LESSON.  Lev.  xxvi.  3.  12. — In  those  days; 
The  Lord  said  to  Moses  :  Speak  to  the  children  of 
Israel,  and  sjj  to  them  :  If  you  walk  in  my  precepts 
and  keep  my  commandments,  and  do  them,  I  will 

five  you  rain  in  due  season.  And  the  ground  shall 
ring  forth  its  increase,  and  the  trees  shall  be  filled 
•with  fruit.  The  threshing  of  your  harvest  shall 
reach  unto  the  vintage,  and  the  vintage  shall  reach 
unto  the  sowing  time;  and  you  shall  eat  your  bread 
to  the  full,  and  dwell  in  your  land  without  fear.  I 
will  give  peace  in  your  coasts:  you  shall  sleep,  and 
there  shall  be  none  to  make  you  afraid.  I  will  take 
away  evil  beasts;  and  the  sword  shall  not  pass 
thro*  your  quarters.  You  shall  pursue  your  enemies, 
and  they  shall  (all  before  you.  Five  of  you  shall 
pursue  a  hundred  others,  and  a  hundred  of  you  ten 
thousand:  your  enemies  shall  tall  before  you  by  the 
5-vord.  I  vvjll  look  on  you,  and  make  you  increase: 
you  shall  be  multiplied,  and  I  will  establish  my  co- 
venant with  you.  You  shall  eat  the  oldest  of  the 
store,  and,  new  coming  on,  you  shall  castaway 
the  olu.  1  will  sst  my  tabernacle  in  the  midst  of 
Kk  3 


390  EMBER-SATURDAY. 

you,  and  my  soul  shall  not  cast  you  off.  I  will 
walk  among  yon,  and  will)  be  your  God,  and  you 
shall  be  my  people,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty.  Allel. 

V.  *Come,  OHoly  Spirit,  fill  the  hearts  of  thy 
faithful,  and  kindle  in  them  the  fire  of  thy  love. 

V.  COLLECT  Pnesta,  £z/#s?///ms.— Grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  whilst  we  fast 
from  meat,  we  may  likewise  f  st  from  all  those 
vices  to  which  we  are  prone.  Thro'. 

V.  LESSON.  Dan.  iii.  49.-. In  those  days:  The 
angel  of  the  Lord  went  down  with  Asarias  and  his 
companions  into  the  furnace:  and  he  drove  the 
flame  of  the  fire  out  of  the  furnace,  and  made  the 
midst  of  the  furnace  like  the  blowing  of  a  wind 
bringing  dew,  and  the  fire  touched  them  not  at  all, 
nor  troubled  them,  nor  did  them  any  harm.  Then 
these  three,  as  with  one  mouth,  praised,  and  glo- 
rified, and  blessed  God 'in  the  furnace,  saying:  Allel. 

V.  Blessed  art  thou,    O  Lord,  the  God  of  our 
forefathers,  and  worthy  of  praise  for  ever. 

VI.  COLLECT.     Deus,    qui   tribus..--O  God, 
who.  in  the   behalf  of  the  three  young  men,    didst 
render  harmless  the  flames  of  fire  :   mercifully  grant, 
that  we  thy  servants  may  not  be  burnt  by  the  flames 
of  vice.     Thro'. 

Hi re  is  said  cither  the  Collect,    EccU  tuse,   or  Deu$ 
omnium,  /;.  50. 

EPISTLE.    Horn.   v.    i.  5 Brethren  ;  Being 

justified  by  faith,  let  us  have  peace  with  God, 
through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  By  whom  also  we 
have  access  through  faith,  into  this  grace  wherein, 
we  stand,  and  glory  in  the  hope  of  the  glory 
of  the  sons  of  God.  And  not  only  so  :  but  we 
glory  also  in  tribulations,  knowing  that  tribula- 
tion worketh  patience  ;  and  patience,  trial ;  and 
trial,  hope.  And  hope  con foundeth  not  j  because 
the  charity  of  God  is  poured  abroad  in  our  hearts 
by  the  Hply  Ghost,  who  is  given  to  us. 


EMBER-SATURDAY.  391 

TRACT.  P.s\  cxvi.—  Praise  the  Lord,  as  p.  327. 
Prose,  Veni  Sancte  Spiritus,  as  before^  p.  376. 
Compel.  Luke  iv.  38.  44,  — 4f  that  tune: 
Jesus  rising  up  out  of  the  synagogue,  vent  into  Si- 
mon's house.  And  Simon's  wife's  mother  was 
taken  with  a  fever;  and  they  besought  him  for  her. 
And  standing  over  her  he  commanded  the  fever, 
and  it  left  her.  And  immediately  rising,  she  minis- 
tered to  them.  And  when  the  sun  was  down,  all 
they  that  had  any  sick  with  divers  diseases,  brought 
them  to  him.  But  he  laying  his  hands  on  every 
one  of  them,  healed  them.  And  devils  went  out 
from  many,  crying  out  and  saying:  Thou  art  the 
Son  of  God.  And  he  rebuking  them  suffered  them 
riot  to  speak:  for  they  knew  that  he  was  Christ, 
And  when  it  was  day,  going  out  he  went  into  a  de« 
?art  place:  and  the  multitude  sought  him,  and 
came  lo  him  :  and  they  stayed  him  that  he  should 
not  depart  from  them.  And  he  said  to  them:  I 
must  preach  the  kingdom  of  God  to  other  cities  also, 
for  therefore  am  I  sent.  And  he  was  preaching  in 
the  synagogues  of  Galilee.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  hxxvii.— O  Lord  God  of  my  saU 
vation,  I  have  cried  out  to  thee  day  and  night:  let 
my  prayer,  O  Lord,  come  before  thee,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  To  the  end  that  our  fasts  may  be 
acceptable  to  thee,  O  Lord,  grant  us,  we  beseech 
thee,  to  offer  thee  a  heart  purified  by  the  efficacy  of 
this  sacnimriit.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Jo/in  ii'u— The  spirit  breatheth  where 
lie  will,  and  )ou  hear  his  voice,  Alleluia,  Alleluia; 
but  you  know  not  whence  he  cometh,  nor  whither 
he  goeth,  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.COMM.     J'r:il.c(wt.  -.-May   thy   sacred    mys- 
trries,  O  Lord,   give  us  divine  fervour,    that  we  may 
i  oth  them  and  their  eifcxt •-.  TUro'. 


(     39*     ) 

TRINITY- SUNDAY. 

SINCE  without  a  belief  of  the  existence  of  Threeador- 
able  Persons  in  the  Godhead,  \ve  cannot  be  Christi- 
ans, let  us  this  day  beseech  Almighty  God  to  strengthen 
our  faith  in  the  mystery  of  the  ever  blessed  Trinity,  and 
teach  us  implicitly  to  submit  to  whatever  other  dogma  the 
Church  proposes  to  our  belief.     Let  us  also  pray  for  those 
who,  taking  weak  reason  for  their  gaide  in  matters  of  re- 
ligion, refuse  to  believe  what  God  himself  has  revealed 
concerning  his  own  incomprehensible  Majesty, 
INTROIT. 

B Lessee!  be  tbe  holy      T>Enedicta    sit    sancta 
Trinity  and  undivid  Trinitas,  alqve  indi- 

ed  Unity:  We  \vill  praise  visa  Unit  as  ;  Confitcbi- 
it,  because  it  hath  shewn  nmr  ei,  qula  fecit  nobis. 
his  mercy  to  us.  Ps.  O  cum  misericordiam  sua?n. 
Lord,  our  God,  how  Ps.  Domine,  Dominus 
wonderful  is  thy  name  nosier,  quam  admirabiie. 
over  the  utmost  bounda-  cst  nomen  tuum  in  unvvtr- 
ries  of  the  earth.  sa  terra. 

F.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotens.—O  almighty  and  ever- 
lasting God,  who  hast  granted  tby  servants,  in  the 
confession  of  the  true  faith,  lo  acknowledge  the 
glory  of  an  Eternal  Trinity,  and  in  the  power  of  ma- 
jesty, to  adore  an  Unity  :  We  beseech  thee  that,  by 
the  strength  of  this  faith,  we  may  be  defended  from 
all  adversity.  Thro'. 

COLLECT  Deus,  in  te,  of  the  I.  Sund.  after  Pen. 
tecost.  -  OGod,  the  strength  of  such  as  hope  in  thee ; 
mercifully  hear  us  calling  on  thee  :  and  since  mortal 
weakness  can  do  nothing  without  thee,  grant  us  the 
assistance  of  thy  grace  j  that  in  observing  thy  com- 
mandments, we  may  please  thee  both  in  will  and 
action.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  'Rom.  xi.  33.  36.  — O  the  depth  of 
the  riches  of  the  wisdom  and  of  the  knowledge  of 
God'  How  incomprehensible  are  his  judgments. 


TRINITY-SUNDAY.  393 

and  how  unsearchable  his  ways  ?  For  who  hath 
known  the  mind  of  the  Lord  ?  Or  who  hath  been 
his  counsellor  ?  Or  who  hath  first  given  to  him,  and 
recompence  shall  be  made  him?  For  of  him,  and 
by  him,  and  in  him  are  all  things;  to  him  be  glory 
for  ever.  Amen. 

GRAD.  Dun.  iii.-.-Blessed  art  thou,  O  Lord, 
who  beholdest  the  deep,  and  sittest  on  the  cheru- 
bim. V.  Blessed  art  thon,  O  Lord,  in  the  firma- 
ment of  the  heaven,  and  worthy  of  praise  forever. 
-Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V  Blessed  art  thou,  O  V.  Benedictus  est  Do. 
Lord,  the  God  of  our  mine,  Deus  Put  rum  nos- 
Fathers,  and  worthy  of  trorum,  et  laudabilis  in 
praise  for  ever.  Alleluia,  sacula.  Alleluia. 

<E>00p£U  Matt,  xxviii.  18.  20.—^  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples :  All  power  is  given  to  me 
in  heaven  and  in  earth.  Go  ye  therefore  and  teach 
all  nations:  BAPTIZING  THEM  IN  THE  NAME  OF 
THE  FATHER,  AND  OF  THE  SON,  AND  OF  THE 
I}OLY  GHOST.  Teaching  them  to  observe  all  things 
whatsoever  I  have  commanded  you:  and  behold  I 
am  with  you  all  days,  even  to  the  consummation 
of  the  world.  CKEDO. 

OMKKT.  Blessed  be  God  the  Father,  and  the 
only  begotten  Son  of  God,  as  likewise  the  Holy 
Ghost ;  icr  he  has  shewn  his  mercy  to  us. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
our  God,  by  the  invocation  of  thy  holy  name,  the 
victim  of  this  oblation  :  and  by  it  make  us  an  eter- 
nal offering  to  thee.  Thro'. 

SECRET  of  the  I.  Sunday  after  Pentecost.  Mer- 
cifully  receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  the  sacri- 
IJce  we  offer  thee,  and  grant  that  it  may  be  a  conti- 
nual help  to  us.  Thro*. 

COMM.  We  bless  the  God  of  heaven,  and  we 
will  praise  him  in  the  si^ht  of  all  the  living  :  because 
he  hath  shewn  us  his  mercy. 


394  CORPUS-CHRISTI. 

P.  COMVT.  Profkiat.—  May  the  receiving  of  this 
sacrament,  O  Lord  our  God,  avail  us  to  the  salva- 
tion of  body  and  soul  :  together  with  the  confession 
of  an  everlasting  Holy  Trinity,  and  of  the  undivided 
unity  thereof.  Thro'. 

P.COMM.  Tautis,  of  the  I.  Sund.  after  Pentecost. 
Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the  great  sa- 
crifice we  have  partaken  of,  may  avail  us  to  sal- 
vation, and  make  us  never  cease  praising  thee.  Thro'. 

(i!50£p£l.  of  the  I.  Sund.  after  Pentecost.  Luke 
vi.  36.  41.—  At  that  time  :  Jesus  said  to  his  disciples: 
Be  ye  merciful,  as  your  Father  also  is  merciful, 
judge  not,  and  you  shall  not  be  judged.  Condemn 
not,  and  you  shall  not  be  condemned.  Forgive, 
and  you  shall  be  forgiven.  Give,  and  it  shall  be 
given  to  you  ;  good  measure  and  pressed  down  and 
shaken  together  and  running  over  shall  be  given  into 
your  bosom.  For  with  the  same  measure  you  shall 
mete  withal,  it  shall  be  measured  to  you  again. 
And  lie  spoke  also  to  them  a  similitude:  Can  the 
blind  lead  the  blind  ?  do  they  not  both  fall  into  the 
ditch?  The  disciple  is  not  above  his  master  :  but 
every  one  shall  be  perfect,  if  he  be  as  his  master* 
And  why  seest  thou  the  mote  in  thy  brother's  eye; 
but  the  beam  that  is  in  thy  own  eye  thou  considerest 
not?  Or  how  canst  thou  say  to  thy  brother:  Bro- 
ther, let  me  pull  the  mote  out  of  thy  eye,  when 
thou  thyself  seest  not  the  beam  in  thy  own  eye? 
Hypocrite,  erst  first  the  beam  out  of  thine  own  eye, 
and  then  thou  shalt  see  clearly  to  take  out  the  mote 
from  thy  brother's  eye.  Deo  gratias. 


THIS  Festival  (instituted  about  the  middle  of  the  thir- 
teenth century  by  a  Bull  of  Urban  IV.]   was  received 
and  confirmed  by  the   General  Council    ot  Vienne,  anno 
1311,  in  opposition  to  the  errors  of  some,  who  then,  as 


CORPUS  CHRIST!.  395 

\vcll  as  now,   preferred  a  false  philosophy  to  the  belief  cf 
all  Christians  in  the  preceding  ages. 

The  rrocfjions  in  Catholic  countries  on  this  day,  and 
during  its  Octave,  were  instituted  as  triumphs  ot  Christ 
and  his  Church  over  the  obstinate  enemies  of  this  adorable 
mystery;  and  as  public  testimonies  of  the  faith,  love  and 
gratitude  of  the  true  children  of  God. 

INTROiT.     Ps.  Ixxx. 

HE  fed  them  with  the  S^lbuiil  cos  ex  adipefru- 
finest  wheat,  Alle-  ^  went  ^Alleluia:  tide 
luia  r  and  filled  them  pcira  mellc  suturazit  eos. 
with  honey  from  the  rock.  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  A  llcl. 
Allel.  Allel.  Allel.  Ps.  Ps.  Exultate Deo adju* 
Exult  in  God  our  help;  tori  nostro :  jubilate  JJco 
joyfully  sing  to  the  God  Jacob. 
of  Jacob.  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dcus  qui..-.O  God,  who,  in  tins 
wonderful  sacrament,  hast  left  us  a  perpetual  memo- 
rial of  thy  Passion  ;  grant  us,  we  beseech  thee,  so 
to  reverence  the  sacred  mysteries  of  thy  body  and 
blood,  that  in  our  souls  we  may  always  be  sensible 
of  the  fruit  of  the  redemption  thou  hast  purchased 
for  us.  Who  livest. 

EP1ST.  i  CV,  xi.  23.— Brethren:  I  have  received 
of. the  Lord,  that  which  also  I  delivered  to  you, 
that  the  Lord  Jesus,  the  same  night  in  which  he  was 
betrayed,  took  bread,  and  giving  thanks,  broke, 
and  said;  Take  ye,  and  cot:  this  is  wy  lady  re  hie  ft 
shall  be  detivtredfor  you  \  this  do  for  the  commemora- 
tion of  me.  In  like  manner  also  the  chalice,  after 
he  had  supped,  saying:  This  Chalice  is  the  Ntze  TiS~ 
tanicnt  in  my  blood:  this  do  yct  as  often  as  you  shall 
drink  it,  for  the  ctonm&noratwn  of  we.  For  as  often 
as  you  shall  eat  this  bread,  and  drink  this  chulio*, 
you  shall  shew  the  death  of  the  Lord,  till  lie  come. 
Wherefore  whosoever  shall  eat  this  bread,  or  drink 
the  chalice  of  the  Lord  unworthily,  shall  be  guilty 
of  the  body  and  blood  of  the  Lord.  But  let  a  man 
prove  himself;  and  so  let-him  eat  of  that  bren. 


396  CORPUS-CHRIST!. 

drink  of  the  chalice.  For  he  that  eateth  and  drinketli 
unworthily,  eateth  and  drinketli  judgment  to  him- 
self, not  discerning  the  body  of  the  Lord. 

GR  AD.  Ps.  cxliv — The  eyes  of  all  hope  in  thee, 
O  Lord,  and  thou  givest  them  food  in  due  season. 
V.  Thou  openest  thy  hand,  and  fillest  every  living 
creature  with  blessings.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  My  flesh  is  truly  V.  Caro  mea  vere  est 
meat,  and  my  blood  is  cibus,  et  sqriguis  mem 


truly  drink  :  he  that  eat- 
eth my  flesh,  and  drink- 
eth  my  blood,  remaineth 
in  me,  and  I  in  him. 


vere  est  potus  :  qui  man- 
ducat  imam  carnem,  et 
bibit  iKeum  sanguinem  in 
me  manet,  et  ego  in  eo, 


The  PROSE. 


LAUDA,     Sion    Sal- 
torem  ;  Lauda  Du- 
cem    et    Pastorem :     In 
hymn  is  et  canticis. 

2.  Quantum     potes, 
tantum  aude;  quia  ma- 
jor omni  laude:  nee  lau- 
dare  sufficis, 

3.  Laudis  thema  speci- 
alis:  panis  vivus  et  vita- 
lis:  hodie  proponitur. 

4.  Quem    in    sacrse 
mensa  coense  j  turbae  fra- 
trum   duodense:    datum 
non  ambigitur. 

5.  Sit  lacs  plena,  sit 
sonora :  sit  jucanda,  sit 
decora:  mentis  jubiliatio: 

6.  Dies  enim  solemnis 
agitur :    in  qua    mensse 
prima    recolitur,     hujus 
institutio. 

7.  In  hac  mensa  novi 


Regis4:  novurh  Pascha 
nov?e  legis  :  phase  vetus 
terminat. 

8.  Vetustatem  novitas: 
umbram    fugat    veritas: 
noctem  lux  eliminat. 

9.  Quod  in  coena  Chris* 
tus     gessit :     faciendum, 
hoc  expressit :  in  sui  me- 
moriam. 

10.  Docti  sacris  insti- 
tntis:    panem,  vinum  in 
salmis  consecramus  hos* 
tiam. 

11.  Dogma      datur 
Christianis  :  -quod  in  car- 
nem    transit    panis :     et 
vinum  in  sanguinem. 

12.  Quod  non  capis, 
quod   non    vides :    ani- 
mosa  firmat  fides:  pias- 
ter rerum  ordinem. 

13.  Sub  diversis  spe- 


_';  J/Y//  .  '  i7ii  'c/i  v'/  in  /v //'//// 

T/u  •  JJt  \  <nl  (  /I  lju/t  '£?  f/tu*  i  *  rntit  /<  //'  ^ ' '/  /&/ '  Z5?.<* '  v 


CORPUS  CHIUSTI.  397 

ciebus:  signis  tantum,  et         20.     Nulla  rei   fit  sis- 


sura:  signi  tantum  fit 
tractura,  qua  nee  status, 
nee  statura  signati  mU 
nuitur. 

21.  Eccepanisangelo- 
rum;     factus   cibus  via- 


noti    rebus  ;    latent    res 
eximise. 

14.  Caro  cibus,  san- 
guis  potus :  manet  tamen 
Chribtus  totus,  sub  utra- 
qu«  specie. 

13.      A  sumente  non     torum  ;  vere  panis  filio- 
concisus:  non  confractus,     rum,  non  mittendus  ca- 
nibus. 

22.  In  figuris  prsesigna- 
tur:  cum    Isaac    imino- 
latur;  Agnus  Paschse  de- 
pntatur ;     datur   Manna 
Patribus. 

23.  Bone  pastor,   pa- 


non  divisus;  integer  ac- 
cipitur. 

16.  Sumit  unus,  su- 
munt    mille:     quantum 
isti,    tantum    ille:     nee 
sumptus  consumitur. 

17.  Summit  boui,  su- 
punt  mali ;  sorte  tamen 
inaequali ;     vitae  vel  in- 
teritus. 

1 8.  Mors  est  malis.vita 
bonis:  vide    paris  sump-     tium. 
tionis :   quam   sit  dispar         24. 
exitus  I 

19.  Fracto  demum  sa- 
cramento:     ne    vacilles, 
sed    memento ;    tantum 


nis  vere:  Jesu  nostri  mise« 
rere:  tu  nos  pasce,  nos 
tuere  :  tu  nos  bona  fac 
videre  :  in  terra  viven- 


Tu  qui  cuncta 
scs,  et  vales  :  qui  nos 
pascis  liic  mortales:  tuos 
ibi  com  mensales,  cohsere- 
des  et  sodales,  fac  sanc- 


essesub fragmento,quan-     torum  civium.      Amen. 


tum  toto  tegitur. 


John 


Alleluia. 
56.     59.  —  At 


that   time  : 


Jesus  satd  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jews:  My  flesh  is 
meat  indeed:  and  my  blood  is  drink  indeed.  He 
that  eateth  my  flesh  and  drinketh  my  blood,  abideth 
in  me,  and  I  in  him.  As  the  living  Father  hath 
sent  me,  and  I  live  by  the  Father ;  so  he  that  eateth 
me,  the  same  also  shall  live  by  me.  This  is  the. 
bread  that  ramj  down  from  heaven.  Not  as  your 
fathers  did  cat  manna  and  are  dead.  He  that  euU 
*th  •.'•  /.j.ill  live  for  ever.  CREDO. 

L  1 


39$  H.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOSf, 

OFFERT.  Lev.  xii.— The  priests  of  the  Lor<! 
offer  to  God  incense  and  loaves:  and  therefore  shall 
they  be  holy  to  their  God,  and  shall  not  defile  his 
name.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  grant  thy  Church,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  thee,  the  gifts  of  Unity  and  Peace,  which 
are  mystically  represented  in  these  offerings.  Thro*. 
On  this  day,  and  during  the  Octave,  is  said  the  Pre- 
face, *  Qtiia   per    Incarnati,  p*  xxx.  and  the  same 
Mass  unless  on  a  Double. 

COMM.  i  Cor.  xxvi.  -As  often  as  you  shall  eat 
this  bread,  and  drink  this  cup,  you  shall  publish  the 
death  of  the  Lord,  till  he  come.  Whosoever  there- 
fore, shall  eat  this  bread,  or  drink  the  cup  of  the 
Lord  unworthily,  shall  be  guilty  of  the  body  and 
blood  of  the  Lord.  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Fac  m;s.--Grant  us,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
fceech  thee,  the  everlasting  possession  of  thyself,  as 
a  pledge  of  which  we  have  received  thy  body  and 
blood.  Wholivest. 

II.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 

TNTROIT.     Ps.  xvil 

HPHE    Lord   hath    be-      J?Actus     est     Dominui 
•*•     come  my  protector,  protector    meux,     et 

and  set  me  at  large  :  he  eduxit  me  in  latituditiem  : 
has  saved  me,  because  he  salvum  me  fecit,  quoniam 
loved  me-  Ps.  I  will  volnit  inc.  Ps.  Diligam 
love  thee,  O  Lord,  my  tc  Domitie,  virtus  mza  ; 
Strength:  the  Lord  is  my  Dominus  finnamentum 
support,  mv  refuge,  and  meutnetrefugium  nn:umtet 
my  deliverer.  V.  Glory,  libtrutor  meus.  V.Oforia. 
COLLECT.  S«c/i^Grant  us,  O  Lord,  both  a 
constant  love  and  lear  of  thy  holy  name  :  since  thou 
never  withdravvest  thy  protection  from  those,  whom 
thou  solidly  groundest  in  thy  love.  Thro*. 
Here  as  zcdil  as  at  the  Secret  and  P.  Co  mm.  is  mudr, 
a  Commem,  o/_* Corpus  Christi,  p.  395. 


II.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  399 

EPISTLE,  i  John  iii.  13.  18.—  Dearly  beloved: 
"Wonder  not  if  the  world  hate  you.  We  knmv  that 
we  have  passed  from  death  to  lite,  because  we  love 
the  brethren.  He  that  luveth  not,  abideih  ia  death. 
Whosoerer  hateth  his  brother,  is  a  murderer.  And 
you  know  that  no  murderer  luuh  eternal  life  abiding 
in  himself.  In  this  we  have  known  the  chanty  of 
God,  because  he  hath  laid  down  his  life  torus; 
and  we  ought  to  lay  down  our  lives  for  the  brethren. 
He  that  hath  the  substance  of  this  wond,  and  shall 
see  his  brother  in  need,  and  shut  up  his  bowels  from 
him:  how  doth  the  charity  of  God  abide  in  him  ? 
My  little  children,  let  us  not  love  in  word,  nor  ia 
tongue,  but  in  deed,  and  in  truth. 

GRAL).  Ps.  ex. — When  1  was  in  distress,  I  cried 
out  to  the  Lord,  and  he  heard  me.  V  Deliver,  O 
Lord,  my  soul  from  the  deceitful  tongue.  Alleluia. 

I''.  O  Lord  my  God,  in  V.  Dotniut  Dt.us  meus, 
thee  have  I  put  my  trust:  in  te  spcruvi:  satr.um  me 
save  me  from  the  se  that  fac  ex  omnibus  pcrscquen* 
persecute  me,  and  rescue  tibus  we,  et  libent  inc. 
me.  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

(BOjSpd,  I///CC  xiv.  16  24.— At  that  time;  Jcsu& 
spoke  thi* parable  to  t/ie  Pharisees:  A  certain  man 
made  a  .-reat  supper,  and  invited  many,  and  he 
sent  his  sf-rvant  at  supper  time  to  say  to  them  that 
were  invited,  that  they  should  com<%  for  now  all 
tilings  are  read)-.  And  they  began  all  at  once  to 
make  excuses.  The  firsi  said  to  him :  I  have  bought 
a  farm,  and  must  needs  go  and  see  it:  I  pray  thee, 
bold  me  excused.  And  another  said  ;  I  have" 
bought  five  yokes  of  oxen,  ami  I  go  ;o  try  them: 
1  pray  thee  hold  me  excused.  And  another  sal 
have  married  a  wife,  and  therefore  I  cannot  come. 
And  the  servant  returning  told  these  things  to  his 
lord.  Then  the  master  of  the  house  being  angry, 
said  to  his  servant:  Go  out  quickly  into  the  streets 
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4®0  III.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

and  lanes  of  the  city,  and  bring  in  hither  the  poor, 
and  the  feeble,  and  the  blind,  and  the  lame.  And 
the  servant  said:  Lord  it  is  done  as  thou  hast  com- 
manded, and  <yet  there  is  room.  And  the  lord  said 
to  the  servant :  Go  into  the  high- ways  and  hedges  ; 
and  compel  them  to  come  in,  that  my  house  may 
be  filled.  But  I  say  to  you,  that  none  of  those 
men  that  were  invited,  shall  taste  of  my  supper. 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  vi.— Turn  again,  O  Lord,  and 
rescue  my  soul:  save  me  for  thy  mercies  sake. 

SECRET.  May  this  sacrifice  offered  to  thy  name 
purify  us,  O  Lord  :  and  make  us  every  day  advance 
towards  a  heavenly  life.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xi.  I  will  sing  to  the  Lord,  who 
hath  bestowed  good  things  on  me:  and  I  will  sing  a 
psalm  to  the  name  of  the  Lord,  the  Most  High. 

P.  COMM.  Sump t is. — Having  received,  O  Lord, 
this  sacred  oblation,  grant  that  by  frequenting  these 
mysteries  we  may  hasten  our  salvation. 

111.   SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 

INTRO  IT.  Ps.  xxiv. 

T  OOK  on  me,  and  have  TfESPICE  in  me,  et 
•*^ mercy  on  me,  OLord,  •*-  -miserere  mei  Do/nine, 
for  I  am  alone  and  poor;  quantum  mucus  et  pauper 
behold  my  abjection  and  su?n  ego  :  vide  humilita- 
my  labour,  O  my  God,  tern  meam,  et  labor  em 
and  forgive  me  all  my  sins,  meum,  tt  dimitte  CHI- 
PS. To  thee,  O  Lord,  nia  feccata  mea,  Deus 
have  I  lifted  up  my  soul:  meus.  Ps.  Ad  te  -Do- 
In  thee,  O  my  God,  1  mine,  kvavi  uniwam  me* 
place  my  trust;  let  me  ami  Dcus  metis,  in-  te 
not  be  put  to  shame,  confido,  non  tntbescam. 
V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Protector.— 4)  God,  the  protector 


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of  those  who  hope  in  thee,  without  whose  aid  no- 
thing is  strong,  nothing  holy;  increase  thy  mercy 
towards  us;  that  under  thy  direction  and  conduct, 
we  may  so  pass  through  the  blessings  of  this  life,  as 
not  to  lose  those  which  are  eternal.  Thro'. 
C£t"  For  £/*eIl.Collect,&c.  see  tke  ORDINARY,  p. xx. 
EPISTLE,  i  Peter  v.  6.  n.-~Dearly  Beloved: 
Be  you  humbled  therefore  under  the  mighty  hand  of 
God,  that  he  may  exalt  you  in  the  time  of  visitation. 
Casting  all  your  care  upon  him,  for  he  hath  caie  of 
you.  lie  sober  and  watch  ;  because  your  adversary 
the  devil,  as  a  roaring  lion,  goeth  about,  seeking 
whom  he  may  devour:  whom  resist  ye,  strong  in 
faith ;  knowing  that  the  same  affliction  befalleth 
your  brethren  who  are  in  this  world.  But  the  God 
of  all  grace,  who  hath  called  us  unto  his  eternal 
glory  in  Christ  Jesus,  after  you  have  suffered  a  little, 
will  himself  perfect  you,  and  confirm  and  establish 
you.  To  him  be  glory  and  dominion  for  ever  and 
ever.  Amen. 

GRAD.  Ps.  liv.— Cast  thy  solicitude  on  the 
Lord:  and  he  will  feed  thee.  V.  When  I  cried  out 
to  the  Lord,  he  heard  my  voice  against  those  who 
were  coming  upon  me.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  God  is  a  just  Judge,  V.  Deus  Justus  judex 
strong  and  patient ;  doth  fort  is  e  t  pattens :  numquid 
his  anger  break  out  every  iruscitur per  singulus  dies? 
day  ?  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

(00$pel»  Luke  xv.  i.  io.—  At  that  time : 
The  publicans  and  sinners  drew  near  unto  him  to 
hear  him.  And  the  Pharisees  and  Scribes  murmur- 
ed, saying :  This  man  receiveth  sinners  and  eateth 
with  them.  And  he  spoke  to  them  this  parable, 
saying:  What  man  is  there  of  you  that  hath  a  hun- 
dred sheep:  and  he  shall  lose  one  of  them,  doth  he 
not  leave  the  ninety-nine  in  the  desart,  and  go  after 
ihu  whkli  was  lost  until  he  find  it  ?  And  when  he 
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402  IV.  SUNDAY  AFIER  PENTECOST. 

hath  found  it,  doth  he  not  lay  it  upon  his  shoulders 
rejoicing:  and  coming  home  calleth  forth  his  friends 
and  neighbours,  saying  to  them:  Rejoice  with  me, 
because  I  have  found  my  sheep  that  was  lost?  I  say 
to  you,  that  even  so  there  shall  be  joy  in  heaven 
upon  one  sinner  that  doth  penance,  more  than  upon 
ninety-nine  just  who  need  not  penance.  Or  what 
woman  having  ten  groats;  if  she  lose  one  groat, 
doth  not  light  a  candle,  and  sweep  the  house,  and 
seek  diligently,  till  she  find  it  ?  And  when  she  hath 
found  it,  call  together  her  friends  and  neighbours, 
saying;  Rejoice  with  me,  because  I  have  found  the 
groat  which  I  had  lost  ?  So  I  say  to  you,  there  shall 
be  joy  before  the  angels  of  God  upon  one  sinner 
doing  penance.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  ix.~- Let  all  hope  in  thee,  O  Lord, 
who  know  thy  name;  for  thou  abandonest  not  those 
who  seek  thee.  Sing  to  the  Lord  who  dwelleth  in 
Sion  ;  for  that  he  hath  not  forgotten  the  prayer  of 
the  poor. 

SECRET,  Look  down,  O  Lord,  on  the  offer- 
ings of  thy  suppliant  Church;  and  grant  that  thy 
faithful  may  always  worthily  partake' thereof  in  or- 
der to  their  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Luke  xv. ~  I  say  to  you:  There  is  joy 
among  the  angeis  of  God  over  one  sinner  doing 
penance. 

P.  COMM.  Saarfa.r-»*May  thy  sacred  mysteries, 
O  Lord,  which  we  have  received,  give  us  life:  and 
cleansing  us  from  our  sins,  make  us  worthy  of  thy 
eternal  mercy.  Thro'. 

IV.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROJT.     P.-?.  xxvi. 

rpHE  Lord  is  my  light&       ryOMlSUSillumiwitio. 

•*•     my  salvation,  whom     *~*     mea,  et   sulus  /wf«, 

shall  I  fear?  The  Lord  is     yuan    timebo.V    DQinutus, 

the  protector  of  my  life,     defensor  vita  ?xe<?9  a  gnu 


IV.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.     403 

who  shall  make  me  trem-  tr-pit/abo  V  Qiii  tr Umlaut 
<!<•?  My  enemies  who  we  iuhnici  tnci,  ipsi  inlir- 
uiHicted  me,  are  weak-  mail  sunt  et  cecii/erunt. 
encd  and  fallen.  Pa.  If  Ps.  Si  consislant  adver- 
a  camp  be  pitched  against  sum  me  cast:  a  ;  uon  time* 
im< ;  my  heart  shall  not  bit  cor  meum.  V.Gloria. 
fear.  T.  Glory. 

COLL.  /)//.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  \\oild,  with  regard  to  us,  may  be  go. 
vcrned  in  peace  by  thy  providence,  and  thy  Church 
j  a\  hfi  devotions  to  thee  in  tranquillity.  Thro\ 

EPiSTLE,  llom.vm.  18.  23.  ...  Brethren  :  I 
reckon  that  the  sufferings  of  this  present  time  are 
not  worthy  to  be  compared  with  the  glory  to  come, 
that  shall  be  revealed  in  us.  For  the  expectation  of 
the  creature  waiteth  for  the  revelation  of  the  sons  of 
God.  For  the  creature  was  made  subject  to  vanity, 
not  willingly,  but  by  reason  of  him  that  made  it 
subject,  in  hope  :  Because  the  creature  also  itself 
shall  be  delivered  from  the  servitude  of  corruption, 
into  the  liberty  of  the  glory  of  the  children, of  God.' 
For  we  know  that  every  creature  groaneth,  and  is  in, 
labour  even  till  now.  And  not  only  it,  but  our- 
selves also,  who  have  the  first  fruits  of  the  spirit, 
even  we  ourselves  groan  within  ourselves,  waiting 
f.ir  the  adoption  of  the  sons  of  God,  the  redemption 
of  our  body  in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord, 

GRAF).  Ps.  lxxviii.-.Be  merciful,  Q  Lord,  to 
our  offences,  that  the  Gentiles  may  never  say  : 
A\  here  now  is  their  God  ?  V.  Help  us,  O  Lord,  our 
Saviour  j  and  for  the  honour  of  thy  name  deliver  us, 
O  Lord.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  O  God,  who  sittest  V.  Ps.  ix.  Dcus  qui, 
on  thy  throne,  and  judg-  stdts  sitpcr  thronnm  ct 
eth  justly,  be  a  refuge  to  judicfis  dquitdtcm,  csto 
the  pooi-'m  distress.  f^fugium  paupcrum  in 

Alleluia.  tribtdatione.  Alleluia. 

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404  IV.   SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

came  to  pass,  that  when  the  multitude  pressed  upon 
him  to  hear  the  word  of  God,  he  stood  by  the  lake 
of  Genesareth.  And  he  saw  two  ships  standing  by 
the  lake  :  but  the  fishermen  were  gone  out  of  them, 
and  were  washing  their  nets.  And  going  up  into 
one  of  the  ships  that  was  Simon's,  he  desired  him  to 
thrust  out  a  little  from  the  land.  And  sitting  down 
he  taught  the  multitudes  out  of  the  ship.  Now  when 
he  had  ceased  to  speak,  he,said  to  Simon:  Launch 
out  into  the  deep,  and  let  down  your  nets  for  a 
draught.  And  Simon  answering,  said  to  him:  Mas. 
ter,  we  have  laboured  all  the  night,  and  have  taken 
nothing:  but  at  thy  word  I  will  let  down  the  net. 
And  when  they  had  done  this,  they  enclosed  a  very 
great  multitude  of  fishes,  and  their  net  broke.  And 
they  beckoned  to  their  partners  that  were  in  the 
other  ship,  that  they  should  come  and  help  them. 
And  they  came  and  filled  both  the  ships,  so  that 
they  were  almost  sinking.  Which  when  Simon 
Peter  saw,  he  fell  down  at  Jesus's  knees,  saying  : 
Depart  from  me,  O  Lord,  for  I  am  a  sinful  man. 
For  he  was  wholly  astonished,  and  all  that  were 
with  him,  at  the  draught  of  the  fishes  that  were 
taken.  And  so  were  also  James  and  John  the  sons 
ofZebedee,  who  were  Simon's  partners.  And  Je- 
sus saith  to  Simon:  Fear  not;  from  henceforth 
thou  shalt  catch  men.  And  when  they  had  brought 
their  ships  to  land,  leaving  all  things  they  followed 
him.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps  xii.— -Enlighten  mine  eyes,  that  I 
may  never  sleep  in  death j  lest  the  enemy  should 
ever  say:  I  have  prevailed  over  him. 

SECRET.  Receive  our  offerings,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  and  be  appeased  thereby :  and  mer- 
cifully compel  our  wills  to  yield  to  thee,  even  when 
they  rebel.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xvii— The  Lord  is  my  support,  my 
refuge,  and  deliverer,  my  God,  and  my 


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P.  COMM.  .M^erw.-.-May  the  mysteries  we 
have  received,  both  purify  and  defend  us,  O  Lord, 
by  the  efficacy  of  what  they  contain.  Thro'. 

V.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
1NTROIT.     Ps.  xxxvi. 

HEAR,  O  Lord,  my  JfXAUDI,  Doming* 
voice,  when  I  cry  -*~*  vocem  mcam,  qua,  da- 
to  thee :  be  thou  my  mavi  ad  te :  acljutor  mcus 
helper;  abandon  me  not,  esto  :  ne,  dcretinquas  met 
nor  slight  me,  O  God,  neque  despicias  me,  Dcus, 
my  Saviour.  Ps.  The  Salutarin'?neus. 
Lord  is  my  light  .and  my  Ps.  Dowinusilluminatio 
salvation:  whom  shall  I  mca,  ct  salus  mca  \  quein 
fear?  V.  Glory.  tiwcfa?  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  hast  pre- 
pared invisible  good  things  for  those  that  love  thee: 
pour  forth  into  our  hearts  an  affectionate  love  for 
thee  :  that  loving  thee  in  all  things,  and  above  all 
things,  we  may  come  to  the  enjoyment  of  thy  pro- 
mises, which  are  above  whatever  we  can  desire. 
Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  iii.  8.  15.—  Dearly  beloved  : 
Be  ye  all  of  one  mind,  having  compassion  one  of 
another,  being  lovers  of  the  brotherhood,  merciful, 
modest,  humble :  not  rendering  evil  for  evil,  or  rail- 
ing for  railing,  but  contrariwise  blessing ;  for  unto 
this  you  are  called,  that  you  may  inherit  a  blessing. 
"  For  he  that  will  love  life,  and  see  pood  days,  let 
him  refrain  his  tongue  from  evil,  and  his  lips  that 
they  speak  no  guile.  Let  him  decline  from  evil  and 
do  good  :  let  him  seek  after  peace,  and  follow  it : 
because  the  eyes  of  the  Lord  are  upon  the  just,  and 
his  ears  unto  their  prayers  :  but  the  countenance  of 
the  Lord  is  against  them  that  do  evil  things."  And 
who  is  he  that  can  hurt  you,  if  you  be  jealous  of 
good  ?  But  if  also  you  suffer  any  thing  for  justice 


406  V.  SUNDAY   AFTER  PENTECQST* 

sake,  blessed  are  ye.  And  be  not  afraid  of  their 
terror,  and  be  not  troubled.  But  sanctify  the  Lord 
Christ  in  your  hearts. 

GRAB,  Fs.  Ixxxv.— Look  down,  O  God,  our 
protector:  look  down  up~>n  thy  servants.  V.  O 
Lord  God  of  hosts,  hear  the  prayers  of  thy  servants. 
AHeluia,  Alleluia. 

r.  O  Lord,  in  thy  V.  PS.  20.  Domine  invir- 
might  shall  the  king  re-  tute  tua  l(C.!>ib>tur  JRex: 
joice;  and  in  thy  salva-  ft  sup^r  ait/ufurt'  tuum 
tion  shall  he  exult  ex-  exnltabit  rchcwtntur.  Al* 
ceedinplv.  Alleluia.  hi  id  a. 

CpQjSpfcl*  Matt.  v.  20.  24.  .«  At  that  time; 
Jesus  said  :o  his  disciples :  Unless  your  justice  exceed 
that  of  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees,  you  shall  not  enter 
into  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  You  have  heard  that 
it  was  said  to  them  of  old  ;  Thou  shalt  not  kill. 
And  whosoever  shall  kill,  shall  be  in  danger  of  the 
judgment.  But  1  say  to  you,  that  whosoever  is 
angry  with  his  brother,  shall  be  in  dungtr  if  the 
judgment.  And  whosoever  shall  say  to  his  brother, 
Kaca,  shall  be  in  danger  of  the  council.  And  who- 
soever shall  say,  Thou  fool,  shall  be  in  danger  of 
hell  fire.  Therefore  if  thou  bring  thy  gift  to  the 
altar,  and  there  shalt  remember  that  thy  brother 
hath  any  thing  against  thee;  leave  there  thy  gift  be- 
fore the  altar,  and  go  first  to  be  reconciled  to  thy 
brother:  and  then  come  and  offer  thy  gift.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps*  xv.~-l  will  bless  the  Lord  who 
luth  given  as  understanding. 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  by  our  humble 
prayers,  and  mercifully  receive  these  offerings  of  thy 
servants:  that  what  each  hath  offered  to  the  honour - 
of  thy  name,   may  avail  to  the  salvation  of  all. 

COMM.  Ps\  vi.~-  One  thing  have  I  asked  of  the 
Lord,  and  will  continue  to  ask:  that  I  may  dwell 
in  the  house  of  the  Lord  all  the  days  of  my  life. 


VI.  SUNDAY  AFTfen  PENTECOST.  407 

P.COMM.  Quos  calcsti.-.- Grant,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee  ;  that  we,  whom  thoa  hast  fed  with  this 
heavenly  sacrifice,  may  be  cleansed  from  our  hid- 
den.  sins,  and  delivered  from  the  snares  of  our  ene- 
mies. Thro'. 

VI.  SUNDAY  aflcr  PHNTECOST. 
JNTROIT.  Ps.  xxvii. 

THE  Lord  is  the  T\0minus  fortitudo  pit- 
strength  of  his  peo-  -*~^  Us  sua  ;  et  Prolec* 
pie;  the  Protector  of  the  tcr  Sa-'ytftrinm  Christi 
Salvation  of  his  anointed,  sui  t.»r.  Salvum  fac  po~ 
Save,  O  Lord,  thy  peo-  pulum  tuum  Dorrunc,  tt 
pie,  and  bless  thy  inheri-  bencdic  /t&reditali  tux,  tt 
tance,  and  govern  them  rei'e  evs  usque  in  s&cutum* 
forever.  Ps.  To  thee,  Ps.  Ad  it  Domine,  cla- 
O  Lord,  will  I  cry  out,  mabo,  Dcus  mcu*  ne  «'• 
O  my  God,  be  not  silent;  teas  a  me:  ne  gaando  ta» 
refuse  not  to  answer  me,  etas  a  me,  ct  assimilvbcr 
Jest  I  become  like  those  ' Aus  in  lacum» 

who  descend  into  the  pit.     V.  'Gloria. 
V.  Glory. 

COLLEC  I'.  Dcus  virlutum.  —  O  God  of  all 
power,  to  whom  entirely  belongeth  whatever  is 
best:  implant  in  our  hearts  the  love  of  thy  name, 
and  grant  us  an  increase  of  religion,  that  thou  may- 
est  improve  in  us  what  is  pood,  and  preserve  what 
thou  thus  improvest  by  the  practice  o\  piety.  Thro'. 

EP1ST.  R<wu  vi.  $.—.Br&thrtJi :    All  we  who  are 

baptized  in   Christ  Jesus,  are  baptized  in  his  death. 

For  w«  ?re   buried  together  with  him  by  b  pt 'srri 

unto  death  :  that  as  Christ  is  risen  from  the  dead  by 

:,>ry   of  the  Father,  so  we  also  may  walk  ia 

newness  of  life.      For  if  we  have  been  planted  to- 

pei her  in  the  likeness  of  his  death,  we  shall  also  be 

in  the  iii;cn<,ss  of  his  resurrection.  Knowing  this,  that 

•d   man  is  crucified  with  him,   that  the  body 

of  sin  may  be  destroyed,  and  that  we  may  save 


4oS  VI,  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

sin  no  longer.  For  he  that  is  dead  is  justified 
from  sin.  Now  if  we  be  dead  with  Christ,  we  be- 
lieve that  we  shall  live  also  together  with  Christ, 
Knowing  that  Christ,  rising  again  from  the  dead, 
dieth  now  no  more,  death  shall  no  more  have  do- 
niinionover  him.  For  in  that  he  died  to  sin,  he 
died  once  :  but  in  thai  he  liveth,  he  liveth  unto 
God.  So  do  you  also  reckon  yourselves  to  be  dead 
indeed  to  sin,  but  alive  to  God  in  Christ  Jesus  our 
Lord. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  Ixxxix.— Turn  to  us  a  little,  O 
Lord,  and  be  appeased  with  thy  servants.  V.  Lord, 
thou  hast  been  our  refuge  from  generation  to  gene- 
ration. Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Ps.  Inthee,  O  Lord,  V.  Ps.  30.... In  te,  Do- 
have  I  placed  my  trust,  mine,  speravi,  nun  confun. 
let  me  never  be  put  to  dar  in  a -tcrnum :  in  just i- 
shame  :  save  me  by  thy  tia  tna  liber  a  me  et  tripe 
justice,  and  rescue  me:  me:  inctina  ad  me  aureui 
bend  thine  ear  to  me:  tuam  i  accel-cru  ut  eripias 
make  haste  to  save  me.  me.  Alleluia. 
Alleluia. 

d500pCU  Mark  viii.  i.  91—  At  that  time: 
When  there  was  a  great  multitude  with  Jesus,  and 
had  nothing  to  eat :  calling  his  disciples  together,  he 
saith  to  them:  1  have  compassion  on  the  multitude, 
for  behold  they  have  now  been  with  me  three  days, 
and  have  nothing  to  eat  :  and  if  I  send  them  away 
fasting  to  their  own  houses,  they  will  faint  in  the 
way ;  for  some  of  them  came  afar  off.  And  his  dis- 
ciples answered  him;  From  whence  can  any  one 
satisfy  them  here  with  bread  in  the  wilderness?  And 
he  asked  them:  How  many  loaves  have  ye?  And 
they  said  :  Seven*  And  he  commanded  the  people 
to  sit  down  on  the  ground  :  and  taking  the  seven 
loaves,  giving  thanks  he  broke,  and  gave  to  his  dis- 
ciples to  set  before  them,  and  they  set  them  before 
the  people.  And  they  had  a  few  little  fishes;  and 


VII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  4^9 

he  blessed  them,  and  commanded  them  to  be  set 
before  them.  And  they  did  eat  and  were  filled, 
and  they  took  up  that  which  was  left  of  the  frag- 
ments, seven  biskets.  And  they  that  had  eaten 
were  about  tour  thousand  :  and  he  sent  them  away. 
CHEDO- 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xvi.—  Make  my  steps  perfect  m 
thy  paths,  that  my  feet  slip  not:  bend  thine  ear  and 
l.enr  my  words:  display  the  \\o-idersof  thy  mercy, 

-a'vest  those  that  hope  in  thee,  O  Lord. 
SECRET.  B?  appeased,  O  Lord,  by  our  hum- 
ble  prayers,  and  mercifully  receive  the  offerings  of 
thy  people  :  and  that  the  vows  and  prayers  of  none 
may  be  i;i  vain,  grant  we  may  effectually  obtain 
what  we  ask.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xxiv.-"I.  will  go  up,  and  sacrifice 
in  his  tabernacle,  a  victim  of  praise  ;  I  will  sing  and 
repeat  a  psalm  to  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  LV/;/ea..  -Weare  filled,  O  Lord,  with 
thy  gifts:  grant,  therefore,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we 
may  be  cleansed  by  their  efficacy,  and  strengthened 
by  tueir  aid.  Thro'. 


VII.  SUNDAY  fl/fcr  PENTECOST. 
1NTROIT.     Ps.  xlvi. 

CLAP  your  hands,  all     S)MNES   Gcntcs  plan. 
ye  Gentiles  j  sing  to  di*c  manibus  :    jubi* 

God  with  a  joyful  voice,  late  Deo  in  voce  exulta- 
Pi.  For  the  Lord  is  the  tionis.  Ps.  Qiconiajn  Do^ 
high  and  awful  One:  minus  excdsus,  tcrribilisi 
he  is  tlie  great  King  over  Rex  magnus  super  omnem 
all  the  earth.  V.  Glory,  terrain.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus  cujus.  —  O  God,  whose  provi- 
dence is  never  deceived  in  what  it  appointeth  :  we 
humbly  beseech  thee  to  remove  whatever  may  be 
prejudicial  to  us:  and  grant  us  whatever  may  be  to 
the  advantage  of  our  souls.  Thro'* 
M  m 


410  VII.    SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

EPIST.  Rom.  vi.  1 9, — Brethren  :  I  speak  a  hu- 
man thing  because  of  the  infirmity  of  your  flesh: 
for  as  you  have  yielded  your  members  to  serve  un- 
cleanness  and  iniquity  unto  iniquity;  so  now  yield 
your  members  to  serve  justice,  unto  sanctification. 
For  when  you  were  the  servants  of  sin,  you  were  free 
from  justice.  What  fruit  therefore  had  you  then  in 
those  things  of  which  you  are  now  ashamed  ?  For 
the  end  of  them  is  death.  But  now  being  made  free 
from  sin,  and  become  servants  to  God,  you  have 
your  fruit  unto  sanctification,  and  the  end  everlast- 
ing life.  For  the  wages  of  sin  is  death.  But  the 
grace  of  God,  everlasting  life  in  Christ  Jesus  our 
Lord. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiii. — Come,  children,  hearken  to 
me:  I  will  teach  you  the  fear  of  the  Lord.  V.  Draw 
near  to  him,  and  he  enlightened;  and  your  faces 
shall  not  be  covered  with  shame.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
V.  Clap  your  hands  V.  Omnes  Gentes  plau- 
all  ye  Gentiles:  sing  to  dite  manibmi  jubilate  Deo 
God  with  a  joyful  voice,  in  roce  exultation-is.  Allc- 
Alleluia.  lnia% 

d500ptL    Matt.  vii.   15.  21 At  that  time: 

Jesus  said  to  /its  disciples  :  Beware  of  false  prophets, 
who  come  to  you  in  the  cloathing  of  sheep,  but  in- 
wardly they  are  ravening  wolves.  By  their  fruits 
you  shall  know  them.  Do  men  gather  grapes  of 
thorns,  or  figs  of  thistles?  Even  so  every  good  tree 
bringeth  foi\h  good  fruit,  and  the  evil  tree  bringeth 
forth  evil  fruit;  A  good  tree  cannot  bring  forth  evil 
fruit,  neither  can  an  evil  tree  bring  forth  good  fruit. 
Every  tree  that  bringeth  not  forth  good  fruit,  shall 
be  cut  down,  and  shall  be  cast  into  the  fire.  Where- 
fore by  their  fruits  you  shall  know  them.  Not  every 
one  that  saith,  Lord,  Lord,  shall  enter  into  the 
kingdom  of  heaven:  but  he  that  doth  the  will  of 
my  Father  who  is  in  heaven,  he  shall  enter  into  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.  CREDO. 


VIII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  i  ENTECOST*  411 

OFFERTORY.  Dan.  iii.  -  \s  a  whole  burnt- 
offering  of  rams  and  bulls  and  the  isands  of  fat  sheep, 
so  let  our  sacrifice  be  this  day  I  thy  sight,  that  it 
may  please  thee  :  for  there  is  no  s  .ame  to  those  who 
put  their  trust  in  thee,  O  Lord* 

SECRET.  O  God,  who  in  one  perfect  sacrifice 
hast  united  all  the  various  sacrifices  of  the  law;  ac- 
cept from  thy  devout  servants  this  sacrifice,  and 
sanctify  it  by  the  like  blessing,  as  thou  didst  the 
offering  of  Abel;  that  what  each  hath  offered  to 
thy  divine  Majesty,  may  avail  to  the  salvation  of  all. 
Thro'. 

COMMUNION.  P*  XXX.— Lend  thine  ear, 
make  haste  to  rescue  me. 

P.  COMM.  Tua  w».— Grant,  O  Lord,  that  the 
healing  efficacy  of  these  thy  mysteries  may,  thro* 
thy  mercy,  free  us  from  all  our  sins,  and  bring  us  to 
the  practice  of  what  is  right.  Thro'. 

VIII.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
1NTROIT.*    Ps.  xlvii. 

WE  have  received  VUsccjji?nu!>  Deus  mi* 
thy  mercy,  O  ^  sericordium  tuwn  iti 
God,  in  the  midst  of  thy  medio  tcmpli  tui  :  secun* 
temple:  thy  praise,  like  dum  noinen  tuumt  ita  ct 
thy  name,  is  spread  over  laus  tua  in  fines  terra; 
the  earth  :  thy  right  Justitia  plena  est  dextcra 
hand  is  full  of  justice,  tua. 
Ps.  The  Lord  is  great,  Ps.  Magnus  Dominus 
and  worthy  ef  praise  in  et  laudabitis  nimis  :  '  in 
the  city  of  our  God,  on  civitatc  Dei  nustri,  in 
his  holy  mount.  montc  sancto  ejus* 

V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT^  Largirc  nobis.  —  Grant  us,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  thee,  the  spirit  of  thinking  and  doing 
what  is  right,  that  we,  who  cannot  even  subsist 
without  thee,  may  live  according  to  thee.     Thro', 
*  Introitfor  Candlemas -Day  also. 
M  m  2 


4*  2  VIJI.  SUNDAY  AFTER  P£^T£COST« 

EPIST.  jR.w/.  viii%  12.—  Brethren  :  We  arc  deb- 
tors, not  to  tlie  flesh,  to  live  according  to  the  flesh. 
For  if  you  live  according  to  the  flesh,  you  shall  die; 
but^  if  by  ihe*  spirit  you  mortify  the  deeds  of  the 
flesh,  you  bh.il  1  live.  For  whosoever  are  led  by 
the  Spirit  of  God,  they  are  the  sons  of  God.  For 
you  have  not  received  the  spirit  of  bondage  again 
in  fear  :  but  you  have  received  the  spirit  of  adop. 
tion  of  sons,  whereby  we  cry  :  Abba,  (Father.) 
For  the  Spirit  himself  giveth  testimony  to  our  spi- 
rit, that  we  are  the  sons  of  God.  And  if  sons, 
heirs  also  :  heirs  indeed  of  God,  and  joint- heirs  with 
Christ. 

GRAD.  P.?.  xxx.— -Be  to  me  a  protecting  God, 
and  a  place  of  n-fujze  to  save  me.  V.  O  God,  on 
thee  have  I  relied ;  let  me  never,  O  Lord,  be  put  to 
shame.  Alleluia,  A!!e  uia. 

V.    Great  is  the  Lord,         V«    ^Magnus  Dominun, 
and    greatly    worthy    of    e t  laudubttis  raide^  in  cm- 
praise,  in  the  city  of  our     tatt  Dei  nostn,  in  niunle 
God,  on  his  holy  mount-     wucto  ejus. 
Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

(300p0L  Luke  xv!.  i.  9.—  At  that  time  :  Jesus 
spoke  to  his  disciples  this  parable  ;  There  was  a  cer- 
tain rich  man  who  had  a  steward  :  and  the  same 
was  accused  unto  him,  that  he  had  wasted  his 
goods.  A  lid  he  called  him,  and  said  to  him  ;  How 
is  it  that  1  hear  this  of  ihee  ?  give  an  account  of  thy 
stewardship-  for  now  thou  canst  be  steward  no  lon- 
gt  r.  Arid  .d  s,'.id  within  himself:  What 

shall  I  uo,  for  my  ion;  tukeih  away  from  me  the 
tte\\aidship  ?  To  dig  I  am  not  able  ;  to  beg  I  am 
oshniTied.  I  know  what  I  will  do,  that  when  I 
shall  be  put  out  of  ?he  stewardship,  they  may  receive 
me  I'IKO  their  houses.  Therefore  calling  together 
every  cue  of  i.is  lord's  debto.s,  he  said  to  the  tint  ; 
How  much  dost  thou  owe  my  lord  ?  But  he  said  ; 
A  hundred  barrels  of  oil.  And  he  said  to  him  ; 


IX.    SUNDAY  AFTER    PENTECOST.  413 

Take  thy  bill  and  sit  down  quickly,  and  write  fifty? 
Then  he  said  to  another :  And  how  much  dost  thou 
owe  ?  U'ho  said  :A  hundred  quarters  of  wheat*  lie 
said  to  him  take  thy  bill,  and  write  eighty.  And 
thr  lord  commended  the  unjust  steward,  forasmuch 
as  he  had  done  wisely  :  for  the  children  of  this 
world  are  wiser  in  their  generation,  than  the  child- 
ren ot  light-  And  I  say  to  you  :  Make  to  yourselves 
friends  of  the  mammon  of  iniquity,  that  when 
you  shall  rail,  they  may  receive  you  into  everlasting 
dwellings.  CUE  DO. 

OITERT.  Ps.  xvii.— Thou  wilt  save  the  people 
that  U  humble,  O  Lord:  and  thou  wilt  humble 
the  eyes  of  the  proud  ones:  for  who  is  God  besides 
thee,"  O  Lord. 

SECRET.  Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  we  brm«,  which  are  the  gifts  of  thine 
own  bounty  :  that  these  most  holy  mysteries  may, 
by  the  power  of  thy  grace,  make  our  conduct  in 
this  life  holy,  and  bring  us  to  those  jo;s  that  will 
never  end.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps  xxxiii. — Taste,  and  see,  how  sweet 
is  the  Lord:  blessed  is  the  man  who  putteth  his 
trust  in  him. 

P.  COMM.  Sit  jiobis.—  May  this  heavenly  mys- 
tery, O  Lord,  renew  us  both  in  soul  and  body  :  that 
we  may  find  in  ourselves  the  effects  of  what  we  ce- 
leurate.  Thro*. 

IX.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
LNTROIT.    Ps.  li. 

BEhold     God     is    my       T^CCE     ,:  'urat 

help:   and  the  Lord      •*-*    nit;    c t  1  A> •/ ..'/<«:'  sus- 
is    the    support    of    my     ccptor     tst    i; 
soul :  turn  the  evil  on  my     a'ccrfc  tutda  iui^ic-x  .v/a/, 
enemies,  and    according     ct  tti  i-tritufe  •>•.«  ^. 
to    thy    promise   destroy     dlos  prvtu'tyr  wcus, 
them,  O  Lord,  mv   pro-     mine. 
M  in 


4T4  IX,    SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

lector.  Ps.  Save  me,  O  Ps.  Deus,  in  nomine 
God,  by  thy  name :  and  tuo  salvum  me  fac  ;  et  in 
by  thy  might  deliver  me.  virtute  tua  libera  inc. 

K  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Pateantt—May  the  ears  of  thy 
mercy,  O  Lord,  be  open  to  the  prayers  of  thy  sup- 
pliants: and,  that  they  may  succeed  in  their  desires, 
make  them  ask  those  things  that  are  agreeable  to 
thee.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  x.  6.  1 3,— Brethren:  Let  us 
not  covet  evil  things,  as  they  also  coveted.  Neither 
become  ye  idolaters,  as  some  of  them  :  as  it  is 
written  :  "  The  people  sat  down  to  eat  and  drink, 
and  rose  up  to  play."  Neither  let  us  commit  fornU 
cation,  as  some  of  them  committed  fornication,  and 
there  fell  in  one  day  three-and-twenty  thousand. 
Neither  let  us  tempt  Christ:  as  some  of  them 
tempted,  and  perished  by  the  serpents.  Neither  do 
you  murmur:  assomeof  them  murmured,  and  were 
destroyed  by  the  destroyer.  Now  all  these  things 
happened  to  them  in  figure :  and  they  are  written 
for  our  correction,  upon  whom  the  ends  of  the 
world  are  come.  Wherefore  let  him  that  thinketh 
himself  to  stand,  take  heed  lest  he  fall.  Let  no 
temptation  take  hold  on  you  but  such  as  is  human. 
And  God  is  faithful,  who  will  not  suffer  you  to  be 
tempted  above  that  which  you  are  able  :  but  will 
make  also  with  temptation  issue,  that  you  may  be 
able  to  bear  it. 

GRAD.  Ps.  li.— O  Lord,  our  Lord,  how  won- 
derful  is  thy  name  over  the  whole  earth  !  V.  For 
thy  majesty  is  above  the  heavens.  Alleluia,  Alleluia, 

Ps.  Rescue  me,  O  my         Ps.    Eripe    me  de  ini- 
God,  from  my  enemies :     micis'  meis,    Deus  meus : 
and  from  those  that  rise     et  ab  insurgent ibus  in  me, 
up   against   me,    deliver     libera  me.  Alleluia. 
me.  Alleluia. 


X.   SUNDAY   AFTER    PENTECOST.  415 

(E>0£fp£l«.  Luke  xix.  41.  47.— At  that  time  : 
When  he  drew  near  Jerusalem,  seeing  the  city,  he 
wept  over  it,  saying  :  if  thou  also  hadtt  known,  and 
that  in  this  thy  day,  the  things  that  are  for  thy 
peace:  but  now  they  are  hidden  from  thy  eyes.  F 
the  days  shall  come  upon  thee :  and  thy  enemies 
shall  cast  a  trench  about  thee,  and  compass  thee 
round,  and  straiten  thee  on  every  side,  and  beat 
thee  flat  to  the  ground,  and  thy  children  who  are  irtf 
thee  :  and  they  shall  not  leave  in  thee  a  stone  upon 
a  stone :  because  thou  hast  not  known  the  time  of 
thy  visitation.  And  entering  into  the  temple,  he 
began  to  cast  out  them  that  sold  therein,  and  them 
that  bought.  Saying  to  them;  It  is  written:  "  My 
house  is  the  house  of  prayer :  but  you  have  made 
it  a  den  of  thieves."  And  he  was  teaching  daily  in 
the  temple.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  P.s.  xviii.— The  ordinances  of  the  Lord 
are  right,  and  gladden  the  heart;  and  his  precepts 
are  sweeter  than  honey  and  the  honey-comb;  and 
therefore  doth  thy  servant  observe  them. 

SECRET.  Grant  us,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
frequently  and  worthily  to  celebrate  these  mysteries : 
for  as  many  times  as  this  commemorative  sacrifice  is 
celebrated,  so  often  is  the  work  of  our  redemption 
performed.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Joint  vi. — He  that  eateth  my  flesh, 
and  drinketh  my  blood,  abideth  in  me,  and  I  in 
him,  saith  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Tui  nohis. — May  the  participation  of 
this  thy  sacrament,  ()  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  both 
purify  us,  and  unite  us.  Thro'. 

X.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
1NTROIT.     h.  xlviii.  P<.  liv. 

WHEN  I  cried  out,     /~>t/M      clamarem       ad 
the  Lord  heard     ^    Uwunum,    eraudivit 


4?  6  X,    tiUSDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

my  complaint  against  voccm  meant,  ab  his  qu\ 
those  that  were  coming  appropiriquunt  mihi :  ct 
against  me:  and  he  that  humiliavit  cos,  qui  cut 
\vas  before  alh  age?,  and  ante  seccula,  ct  maud  in 
\vili  be  forever,  humbled  (Cttrnnnr.jacta  cogitatum 
them  :  cast  thy  care  on  tuum  in  JJumino,  ct  ipse 
the  Lord,  and  he  will  feed  te  enutrict. 
thee.  Ps.  Hear,  O  God,  t*s.  Exaudi,  Devr,  ora- 
1)1}'  pvajer,  and  despi>e  tloncm  mcam,  et  ne  <ks- 
not  my  petition:  look  pc vcris  deprecatiortem  me- 
down  upon  me,  and  hear  am  :  intcnrle  wi/ri,  et  ex- 
me.  V.  Glory.  tiudt  me.  V.Gloria. 

COLLECT'.  DM*,  qui.—O  God,  who  chiefly 
manifestest  thy  Aliir/igluy  power  in  pardoning  and 
shewing  mercy,  increase  thy  goodness  towards  us : 
that  having  recourse  to  thy  promises,  we  may  be 
partakers  of  thy  heavenly  blessing.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  xii  2.  ii.  —  brethren:  You 
know  that,  when  you  Were  heathens,  you  went  to 
dumb  idols,  according  as  you  were  led.  Wherefore 
I  give  you  to  understand,  that  no  man,  speaking  by 
the  spirit  of  God,  saith  anathema  to  Jesus.  And  no 
man  can  say  the  Lord  JCSUP,  but  by  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Now  there  are  diversities  of  graces,  but  the  same 
spirit.  And  there  are  diversities  of  ministeries,  but 
ihe  same  Lord.  And  there  are  diversities  of  opera- 
tions, but  the  same  God  who  worketh  all  in  all. 
I5ut  the  man  if*  station  of  the  Spirit  is  given  to  every 
man  unto  profit.  To  one  indeed,  by  the  Spirit;  is 
given  the  word  of  wisdom:  and  to  another,  the 
word  of  knowledge,  according  to  the  same  spirit  : 
to  another,  faith  In  the  same  spirit;  to  another,  the 
irr^.ce  of  healing  in  one  spirit :  to  another,  the  work- 
ing of  miracles;  to  another,  prophecy;  to  another, 
tU^  discerning  of  spirits:  to  another,  divers  kinds  of 
tongues:  to  another,  interpretation  of  speeches.  But 
in  nil  these  thin.ir-  one  and  the  same  spirit  worketh, 
.n^  t  »  r/w  one  according  as  he  will. 


X.    SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  417 

GR  AD.  Ps.  xvi.  —  Guard  me,  O  Lord,  as  the 
apple  of  thine  eye:  and  protect  me  under  the  sha- 
dow of  thy  wings.  lr.  Let  my  cause  be  tried  in  thy 
presence :  let  my  eyes  see  justice  done.  All  el. 

V.    A  hymn  is  due  to         V.      Te  decet  hymnus, 
thee,  O   God,  in    Sion :     I>eu*,    in    Sion:    tt   tibi 
ana  in  Jerusalem  shall  a     rcddetur  votum  in  Jtrusa- 
vow    he    paid    to   thee.     Itm.  Alleluia. 
Alleluia. 

(EoSpeL  Luke  xviii.  9.  14-  —  At  that  time  i 
Jesus  spake  this  parable  to  some  who  trusted  in 
themselves  as  just,  and  despised  others  Two  men 
went  up  into  the  temple  to  pray;  the  one  was  a 
Pharisee,  and  the  other  a  Publican.  The  Pharisee 
standing,  prayed  thus  with  himself:  O  God,  I  give 
thee  thanks  that  I  am  not  as  the  rest  of  men,  extor- 
tioners, unjust,  adulterers,  as  also  is  this  publican.  I 
fast  twice  in  the  week:  I  give  tithes  of  all  that  I 
possess.  And  the  publican  standing  afar  off  would 
jiot  so  much  as  lift  up  his  eyes  towards  heaven  :  but 
struck  his  breast,  saying:  O  God,  be  merciful  to  me 
a  sinner.  I  say  to  you,  this  man  went  down  to  his 
house  justified  rather  than  the  other,  because 
every  one  that  exalteth  himself,  shall  be  humbled; 
and  he  that  humbleth  himself,  shall  be  exalted. 
CREDO. 

Oh'RttlT,  Ps.  xxiv.— -To  thee,  O  Lord,  have  I 
raised  up  my  soul:  my  God,  I  put  my  trust  in 
thee,  let  me  not  be  put  to  shame ;  neither  let  my 
enemies  scoff  at  me :  for  none  that  rely  on  thee, 
shall  ever  be  confounded. 

SKCRET.  May  the  sacrifice,  we  offer,  OLord, 
be  presented  before  thee;  which  thou  hast  ap- 
pointed to  be  offered  in  honour  of  thy  name ;  ^and  at 
th<-  same  time  become  a  remedy  to  us.  Thro 

COMM.  7Y  1.— Thou  wilt  accept  a  sacrifice  of 
righteousness,  oblations,  and  whole  burnt-orferin^s 
on  thy  altar,  O  Lord. 


4*8  XI.   SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST, 

P.  COMM.  Qu<esumus.—  We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord  our  God,  that  in  thy  mercy  thou  wouldst  never 
deprive  those  of  thy  help,  whom  thou  continually 
strengthenest  by  these  divine  mysteries.  Thro'. 

XL  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROIT.    P*.  Ixvii. 

GOD  in  his  sanctuary:  T\EUS  in  loco  sancto 
God,  who  maketh  "*~*  suo:  Deus  qui  in- 
brethren  abide  together  habitare  facit  uncmimes 
in  concord  ;  he  will  give  in  domo :  ipse  dabit  vir- 
might  and  strength  to  tutem  et  fortitudinem 
his  people.  Ps.  Let  God  plebi  sua. 
arise,  and  his  enemies  Ps.  Exurgat  Deus,  et 
shall  be  dispersed:  and  let  dmipentur  inimici  ejus ; 
those  that  hate  him,  flee  et  fugiant  qui  oderunt 
before  his  face.  V.  Glory,  eum  a  facie  ejus. 

V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotens. — O  Almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  who,  in  the  abundance  of  thy  goodness, 
exceedest  both  the  merits  and  requests  of  thy  sup- 
pliants ;  pour  forth  thy  mercy  upon  us:  and  both 
pardon  what  our  consciences  dreadeth,  and  grant 
such  blessings  as  we  dare  not  presume  to  ask.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  xv.  i.  10.  —  Brethren :  I 
make  known  unto  you  the  gospel  which  I  preached 
to  you,  which  also  you  have  received,  and  wherein 
you  stand,  b)  which  also  you  are  saved :  if  you  hold 
fast  after  what  manner  I  preached  to  you,  unless 
you  have  believed  in  vain*  For  I  delivered  to  you 
first  of  all,  which  I  also  received:  how  that  Christ 
died  for  our  sins  according  to  the  scriptures :  and 
that  he  was  buried,  and  that  he  rose  again  the  third 
day  according  to  the  scriptures:  and  that  he ^was 
seen  by  Cephas  5  and  after  that  by  the  eleven.  Then 
was  he  seen  by  more  than  five  hundred  brethren  at 
once :  of  whom  many  remain  until  this  present,  and 


XT.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST,     419 

some  are  fallen  asleep.  After  that  he  was  seen  by 
James,  then  by  all  the  apostles:  and  last  of  all,  he 
was  seen  also  by  me,  as  by  one  born  out  of  due 
time.  'For  1  am  the  least  of  the  apostles,  who  am 
not  worthy  to  be  called  an  apostle,  because  I  per- 
secuted the  Church  of  God.  But  by  the  grace  of 
God  I  am  what  I  am  j  and  his  grace  in  me  hath  not 
been  void. 

GRAD.  P$  xxvii. — My  heart  trusted  in  God,  and 
I  was  relieved:  and  my  body  hath  recovered  its 
strength:  and  I  will  praise  him  with  my  whole 
heart.  V.  To  thee,  O  Lord,  have  I  cried  out:  be 
not  silent,  O  my  God,  nor  depart  from  me.  Allel. 

V.  Ps.  Exult  in  God  V.  Ps.  xix.  Exultatt 
our  hope;  joyfully  sing  Deo  adjutori  nostro,  jubi- 
to  the  God  of  Jacob:  late  Deo  Jacob;  sumite 
sing  a  hymn  of  joy  upon  psalmum  jucundum  cam 
the  harp.  Alleluia.  cithara.  Alleluia. 

C?0^pCU  Mark  vii.  3^.  37. —  At  that  time: 
Jesus  going  out  of  the  coast  of  Tyre,  he  came  by 
Sidon  to  the  sea  of  Galilee  through  the  midst  of  the 
coasts  of  Decapolis.  And  they  bring  to  him  one 
that  was  deaf  and  dumb :  and  they  besought  him  to 
lay  his  hand  upon  him.  And  taking  him  aside  from: 
the  multitude,  he  put  his  fingers  into  his  ears,  and 
spitting,  he  touched  his  tongue  ;  and  looking  up  to 
heaven,  he  groaned,  and  said  to  him  ;  Ephphetha, 
that  is,  Be  opened.  And  immediately  his  ears  were 
opened,  and  the  string  of  his  tongue  was  loosed, 
and  he  spoke  right.  And  he  charged  them  that 
they  should  tell  no  man.  But  the  more  he  charged 
them  so  much  the  more  a  great  deal  did  they  pub- 
lish it.  And  so  much  the  more  did  they  wonder, 
saying;  He  hath  done  all  things  well;  he  hath 
made  both  the  deaf  to  hear  and  the  dumb  to  speak. 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  P/.  xxix,—  I  will  extol  thee,  O  Lord. 


420  XII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

because  thou  hast  upholden  me,  and  hast  not  grati- 
fied the  desire  of  my  enemies  against  me;  Lord,  I 
cried  out  to  thee,  and  thou  didst  hear  me. 

SECRET.*  Look  down,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  on  our  homage;  that  the  offerings  we  make 
may  be  acceptable  to  thee,  and  a  help  to  our  weak- 
ness. Thro'. 

COMM.  Prov.  iii, —  Honour  the  Lord,  out  ©f 
thy  substance,  and  with  the  first  fruits  of  thy  crops  ; 
and  thy  barns  shall  be  filled  abundantly,  and  thy 
wine- presses  shall  overflow. 

P.  COMM.  Senliamus. — May  we  receive,  by  the 
participation  of  these  thy  mysteries,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  help  in  body  and  mind  :  that  in  the 
salvation  of  both  we  may  enjoy  the  Call  eifect  of 
this  heavenly  remedy.  Thro*. 

XII.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
1NTROIT.     Ps.  Ixix. 

COME  to  my  assist-  T^EUS  in  adjutorium 
ance,  O  God :  O  ^-^  meum  intcnde  :  DJ- 
Lord,  make  haste  to  mine,  ad  adju'Candurn  ?/>e 
help  me:  let  my  ene-  festina :  confnudantur  et 
mies  who  seek  my  soul,  revereantur  iuimici  mei, 
be  put  to  shame  and  qui  qugrunt  animam 
confusion*  P.s'.  Let  them  meum. 
be  put  to  flight  and  Ps.  Avertantur,  rctror- 
shame,  who  conceive  evil  sum  et  crubcscant^  qui 
against  me.  cvgitant  mihimald* 

V.  Glory.  V.    Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Ownipotem.— O  A.I  mighty  and  mer- 
ciful God,  from  whose  gift  it  procee-leth  that  thy 
people  worthily  serve  thee  ;  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  we  may  run  on,  without  stumbling,  to 
the  obtaining  the  effects  of  thy  promises.  Tb.ro'. 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  iii,  4,  <).— Brethren  ;  We  have 


XIK  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  42  £ 

confidence  through  Christ  towards  God.  Not  that 
we  are  sufficient  to  think  any  thing  of  ourselves  as  of 
ourselves  ;  but  our  sufficiency  is  from  God.  ^  Who 
also  hath  made  us  fit  ministers  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment, not  in  the  letter  but  in  the  spirit.  For  the 
letter  killeth  :  but  the  spirit  giveth  life.  Now  if  the 
ministration  of  death,  engraven  with  letters  upon 
stones,  was  so  glorious,  that  the  children  of  Israel 
could  not  steadfastly  behold  the  face  of  Moses,  for 
the  glory  of  his  countenance,  which  is  done  away  ; 
how  shall  not  the  ministration  of  the  Spirit  be  ra- 
ther in  glory?  For  if  the  ministration  of  condemna- 
tion be  glory,  much  moreaboundeth  the  ministration 
of  justice  in  glory. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiil— I  will  bless  the  Lord  at  all 
times:  his  praise  shall  ever  be  in  my  mouth.  V. 
My  soul  shall  glory  in  the  Lord  :  let  the  meek  hear 
and  rejoice.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  O  Lord,  the  God  V.  Donrine,  Deus  sa~ 
of  my  salvation,  I  have  lutis  mea  ;  in  die  cla» 
cried  out  to  thee  day  ntavi,  et  nocte  cor  am  te. 
and  night.  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

0£>0#pCl«.  Luke  x.  23.  37.  —  At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  Blessed  are  the  eyes  that 
see  the  things  which  you  see.  For  \  say  to  you, 
thnt  many  prophets  and  kings  have  desired  to  seethe 
things  that  you  see,  and  have  not  seen  them ;  and 
to  hear  the  things  that  you  hear,  and  .have  not  heard 
them.  And  behold  a  certain  lawyer  stood  up, 
tempting  him  ;  and  saying:  Master,  what  must  I  do 
to  possess  eternal  life?  But  he  said  to  him  :  What  is 
written  in  the  raw  ?  how  readest  thou  ?  He  answer- 
ing, said  :  "  Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God 
with  thy  whole  heart,  and  with  thy  whole  soul,  and 
with  all  thy  strength,  and  with  all  thy  mind  ;  and 
thy  neighbour  as  thyself."  And  he  said  to  him  : 
Thou  hast  answered  right;  this  do  and  thou  shalt  live. 
N  n 


422  XII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

But  he  willing  to  justify  himself,  said  to  Jesus :  and 
who  is  my  neighbour  ?  But  Jesus  answering,  said  : 
A  certain  man  went  down  from  Jerusalem  to  Jerico, 
and  fell  among  robbers,  who  also  stripped  him,  and 
having  wounded  him  went  away  leaving  him  half 
dead.  And  it  chanced  that  a  certain  priest  went 
down  the  same  way ;  and  seeing  him,  he  passed  by. 
Jn  like  manner  also  a  levite,  when  he  was  near  the 
place,  and  saw  him,  passed  by.  But  a  certain  Sa- 
maritan being  on  his  journey,  came  near  him;  and 
seeing  him,  was  moved  with  compassion.  And 
going  up  to  him,  bound  up  his  wounds,  pouring  in 
oil  and  wine:  and  setting  him  upon  his  own  beast 
brought  him  to  an  inn,  and  took  care  of  him.  And 
the  next  day  he  took  out  two  pence,  and  gave  to  the 
host,  and  said ;  Take  care  of  him  ;  and  whatsoever 
thou  shalt  spend  over  and  above,  [  at  my  return 
will  repay  thee.  Which  of  these  three  in  thy  opinion 
was  neighbour  to  him  that  fell  among  robbers  ?  But 
he  said:  He  that  shewed  mercy  to  him.  And  Jesus 
said  to  him:  Go,  and  do  thou  in  likemanner.CREDo. 

OFFERT.  Exod.  xxxii.  — Moses  prayed  in  the 
presence  of  the  Lord  his  God,  and  said :  Why,  O 
Lord,  art  thou  angry  at  thy  people?  Spare  the  wrath 
of  thy  soul :  remember  Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Jacob, 
to  whom  thou  didst  swear  to  give  a  land  flowing 
with  rnilk  and  honey  :  and  the  Lord  was  appeased, 
and  did  not  do  the  mischief  he  had  threatened  his 
people. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  ont 
the  offerings  we  lay  on  thy  holy  altar  :  that  they 
may  fye  to  the  honour  of  thy  name,  by  obtaining 
pardoii  for  us.  Thro/ 

COMM.  P.s  ci  —The  earth,  O  Lord,  shall  be 
filled  with  the  fruits  of  thy  works;  that  thou  mayest 
bring  forth  bread  from  the  earth,  and  wine  may  re- 
joice  the  heart  of  man  :  that  his  face  may  shine  with 
oil,  and  bread  may  strengthen  his  heart- 


XIII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.          423 

P.  COMM.  Vivificet. — May  the  sacred  parti ci pa* 
tion  of  these  thy  mysteries,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  give  us  life:  and  be  to  us  both  an  expiation 
and  protection.  Thro'. 

XIII.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROiT.    Ps.  Ixxiii. 

HAVE  regard  to  thy  Z)Espice,     Domine,     in 

covenant,  O  Lord,  •**     test  amentum    tuum, 

and    abandon    not    the  et  animas  pauper  urn  tuo- 

souls  of  thy  poor;  arise,  rum   ne     dereltnquas     in 

O    Lord,     judge    thine  fmem:    exurge,    Domine, 

own  cause,    and    forget  etjudica  cauxam  tuam,  et 

not   the    cries   of   those  ne  vbli-oiscaris  voces  qua- 

who  seek  thee.  Ps.Why,  rentium  te. 

0  God,    hast  thou  cast  Ps.  Ut  quid,  Dcust  re* 
ps  off  to  the  end  ?    why  pulisti    in  jinem  :    iratus 
is  thy  wrath  kindled  a-  est furor   tuns  super  ove$ 
gainst  the  sheep  of  thy  pascua  iu<z. 

pasture.     V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotent.— O  Almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  grant  us  an  increase  of  faith,  hope,  and 
charity;  and,  that  we  may  obtain  what  thou  pro- 
misest,  make  us  love  what  thou  commandest.Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Gal.  iii.  16.  22.  —  Brethren:  To 
Abraham  were  the  promises  made  and  to  his  seed. 
He  saith  not,  and  to  his  seeds,  as  of  many:  but  as 
of  one,  and  to  thy  seed,  which  is  Christ.  Now  this 

1  say,  that  the  testament  which  was  confirmed  by 
God,  the  law  which  was  made  after  four  hundred 
and  thirty  years,  doth  not  disannul,  or  make  the 
promise  of  no  effect.     For  if  the  inheritance  be  of 
the  law,  it  is  no  more  of  promise.     But  God  gave 
it  to  Abraham  by  promise.  Why  then  was  the  law  ? 
It  was  set  because  of  transgressions,  until  the  seed 
should  come,  to  whom  he  made  the  promise,  being 
ordained  by  angels  in  the  hand  of  a  mediator.  Now 

Nai 


424  XIII.    SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

a  mediator  is  not  of  one  ;  but  God  is  one.  Was  the 
law  then  against  the  promise  of  God  ?  God  forbid. 
For  if  there  had  been  a  law  given  which  could  give 
life,  verily  justice  should  have  been  by  the  law. 
But  the  scripture  hath  concluded  all  under  sin,  that 
the  promise  by  the  faith  of  Jesus  Christ  might  be 
given  to  them  that  believe. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  Ixxii.— Look  down,  O  Lord, 
on  thy  covenant,  and  forget  not  for  ever  the  souls  of 
thy  poor  ones.  V.  Arise,  O  Lord,  judge  thy  own 
cause :  remember  how  thy  servants  are  upbraided, 
Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Thou,  O  Lord,  art  V.  Domine,  refugium 
our  refuge  from  genera-  factus  es  nobis  a  genera- 
tion to  generation.  Allel.  'tione  et  progenii.  Allcl. 

(000p0U  Lukexvii.  n.  19.  —  At  that  time: 
As  Jesus  was  going  to  Jerusalem,  he  passed  through 
the  midst  of  Samaria  and  Galilee.  And  as  he  en- 
tered into  a  certain  town,  there  met  him  ten  men 
that  were  lepers,  who  stood  a-far  orlj  and  lifted  up 
their  voice,  saying  ;  Jesus,  master,  have  mercy  on 
us.  Whom  when  he  saw  he  said  :  Go,  shew  your- 
selves to  the  priests.  And  it  came  to  pass,  that  as 
they  went,  they  were  made  clean.  And  one  of  them 
when  he  saw  that  he  was, made  clean,  went  back, 
and  with  a  loud  voice  glorified  God.  And  fell  on 
his  face  before  his  feet,  giving  thanks :  and  this 
was  a  Samaritan.  And  Jesus  answering,  said : 
Were  not  ten  made  clean,  and  where  are  the  nine  ? 
There  is  no  one  found  to  return  and  give  glory  to 
God,  but  this  stranger.  And  he  said  to  him:  Arise, 
go  thy  way  j  for  thy  faith  hath  male  thee  whole. 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxv. — Tn  thee  have  I  put  my 
trust,  O  Lord:  thou  art  my  God,  and  my  lite  is  in 
thy  hands. 

SECRET.  Be  thou  propitious,  O  Lord,  to  thy 
people:  and  mercifully  receive  their  offerings:  that 


XIV.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  4^ 

being  appeased  thereby,  thou  mayest  grant  us  par- 
don, and  hear  our  requests.  Thro'. 

COMM.  THW.  xvi Thou  hast  given  us  bread 

from  heaven,  O  Lord,  containing  whatever  is  deli- 
cious and  sweet. 

P.  COMM.  Xiuiipfis. — May  th.^se  heavenly  mys- 
teries, O  Lord,  which  we  have  received,  advance 
our  eternal  redemption.  Thro'. 

XIV.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTR01T.     7^.  Ixxxiii. 

BEhold  us,     O    God,      TpRntector  nosfer  aspice, 
our  protector,  and  Dcus,  et  rcsjjice   in 

look  on  the  face  of  thy    Jaciem   Christi    ti/i:   guia 
Christ :   for  better  is  one     mtlior  e*t  dies  una  in  atriis 
day   in   thy  courts    than     tuts  super  imlia. 
ages  elsewhere.     Ps.How        Ps.  Qtcam  dilecta  tabcr- 
lovely  are  thy  tabernacles,     nacida  tuu,   Domine  vir- 
O   Lord    oi    hosts!     My     tutum !     Concupiscit)    et 
soul  longeth  and  tainteth     deficit  atiima  mca  in  atria 
arter   the  courts   of   the     IJowini. 
Lord.     V.  Glory.  V.   Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Custodi.  —  Preserve,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  thy  Church  by  thy  constant  mercy  ; 
and  since  our  weak,  mortality  is  continually  tailing 
without  thy  assistance,  may  thy  grace  withdraw  it 
from  what  is  hurtful,  and  direct  it  in  the  ways  of 
salvation.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Gal.v  16.  24..-.Brethreni  Walk 
in  the  spirit,  and  you  shall  not  fulfil  the  lusts  of  the 
flesh.  For  the  flesh  lusteth  against  the  spirit >  and 
the  spirit  against  the  flesh:  for  these  are  contrary 
one  to  another :  so  that  you  do  not  the  things  that 
you  would.  But  if  you  are  led  by  the  spirit,  you 
are  not  under  the  law.  Now  the  works  of  the  flesh 
are  manifest,  which  are,  fornication,  uncleanness, 
N  n  3 


4^6  XIV.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

immodesty,  luxury,  idolatry,  witchcrafts,  enmities, 
contentions,  emulations,  wraths,  quarrels,  dissensi- 
ons, sects,  envy,  murders,  drunkenness,  revellings, 
and  such  like..  Of  the  which  I  foretell  you,  as 
1  have  foretold  to  yon,  that  they  who  do  such  things 
shall  not  obtain  the  kingdom  of  God.  But  the  fruit 
of  the  Spirit  is  charity,  joy,  peace,  patience,  be. 
nignity,  goodness,  longanimity,  mildness,  feithp 
modesty,  continency,  chastity.  Against  such  there 
is  no  law.  And  they  that  are  Christ's,  have  cruci- 
fied their  flesh  with  the  vices  and  concupiscences. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxvii.—  It  is  better  to  trust  in  the 
Lord,  than  to  trust  in  man.  V.  It  is  better  to  hope 
in  the  Lord,  than  to  hope  in  princes-  Alleluia. 

V.   Come  let  us  rejoice         V.      Vtnite,    exultemus 
iti  the  Lord;  let  us  joy-     Domino;  jubilemn*  Deo 
fully  sing  to  God  our  Sa-     Salutarl  nostro.  Alleluia. 
viour.     Alleluia. 


Matt.  vi.  24.  33.—  At  that  timei 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  No  man  can  serve  two 
masters.  For  either  he  will  hate  the  one,  and  love 
the  other:  or  he  will  hold  to  the  one,  and  despise 
the  other.  You  cannot  serve  God  and  mammon. 
Therefore  I  say  to  you,  be  not  solicitous  for  your 
life,  what  you  shall  eat,  nor  for  your  bodv,  what 
you  shall  put  on.  Is  not  the  life  more  than  the 
meat,  and  the  body  more  than  the  raiment  ?  Behold 
the  birds  of  the  air,  for  they  neither  sow,  nor  do 
they  reap,  n©r  gather  into  barns:  yet  your  heavenly 
Father  feedeth  them.  Are  not  you  of  much  more 
value  than  they?  Aad  which  of  you,  by  taking 
thought,  can  add  to  his  stature  one  cubit  ?  And  for 
raiment  why  are  you  solicitous  ?  Consider  the  lilies 
of  the  field  how  they  grow  :  they  labour  net,  nei» 
ther  do  they  spin.  And  yet  I  say  to  you,  that  not 
even  Solomon  in  all  his  glory  was  arrayed  like  one 
of  these.  Now  if  God  so  clothe  the  grass  of  the 
field,  which  is  to-day,  and  to-morrow  is  cast 


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into  the  oven,  how  much  more  you,  O  ye  of 
little  faith.  Be  not  solicitous  therefore,  saying, 
what  shall  we  eat,  or  what  shall  we  drink,  or 
wherewith  shall  we  be  cloathed?  For  after  all  these 
things  do  the  heathens  seek.  For  your  Father 
knoweth  that  you  have  need  of  all  these  things. 
Seek  ye  therefore  first  the  kingdom  of  God,  and  his 
justice,  and  all  these  things  shall  be  added  unto  you. 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxiii.— The  angel  of  the  Lord 
will  guard,  on  every  side,  those  who  fear  him, 
and  he  will  rescue  them:  taste  and  see  how  sweet 
the  Lord  is. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  this  victim  of  salvation  may  both  cleanse  us 
from  our  sins,  and  render  thy  Majesty  propitious  to 
us.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt,  vi.— Seek  first  the  kingdom  of 
God,  and  al!  these  things  shall  be  given  to  you  over 
and  above,  saith  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Purificent.—  May  these  thy  mys- 
teries, O  God,  continually  purify  us  and  strengthen 
us;  and  procure  us  eternal  salvation.  Thro'. 

XV.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROIT.  Ps.  Ixxxv. 

ATTEND  to  me,  O  JNCLIX^.Dowine^v. 

Lord,  and  hear  me:  -*•    rein  tuwn  <ul  me,    <•/ 

save  thy  servant,   O   my  cxaudi    nic :    SU/THM  fac 

God,     who    hopeth    in  serritm  tuun^  Dr.u*  mcvit, 

thee:  have  mercy  on  me,  spcrantew  in  ie,  :  •////- 

0  Lord,  for  to  thee  have  wihi,    J)<wiinr,     quoniaw 

1  cried   out    the   whole  ad  ft  claiuuvi  iot<t  (in . 
day.      Ps.   Gladden  the         Ps.     Lattjica    anhnaw 
soul  of  thv  servant :    for  ser-ci    lui  :    qu'w    ad    tft 
to  thee,  O   Lord,    have  Donrinc,    Icvuri    at.. 

1  lifted  up  my  soul.     T.     mtum*     V,   G'uriu. 
Glory. 


423     XV.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

COLLECT.  Ecclesiam. — May  thy  continual  mer- 
cy purity  and  defend  thy  church  •.  and  since  without 
thee  it  cannot  be  safe,  may  it  always  be  directed  by 
the  influence  ofjhy  grace.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Gal.  v.  25.  vi.  i.  10.  —  Brethren: 
If  we  live  in  the  Spirit,  let  us  also  walk  in  the  Spi- 
rit. Let  us  not  be  made  desirous  ot  vain-glory, 
provoking  one  another,  envying  one  another. 
(Chap,  vi.)  Brethren,  if  a  man  be  overtaken  by  any 
fault,  you,  who  are  spiritual,  instruct  such  a  one  in 
the  spirit  of  meekness,  considering  thyself,  lest  tliou 
also  be  tempted.  Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens; 
and  so  ye  shall  fulfil  the  law  of  Christ-  For  if  any 
man  think  himself  to  be  something,  whereas  he 
is  nothing,  he  deceueth  himself.  But  let  every 
one  prove  his  own  work,  and  so  he  shall  have  glory 
in  himself  only,  and  not  in  another.  For  every  one 
shall  bear  his  own  burden.  And  let  him,  that  is 
instructed  in  the  word,  communicate  to  him,  that 
instructeth  him,  in  all  good  things.  Be  not  de- 
ceived. God  is  not  mocked.  For  what  things  a 
man  shall  sow,  those  also  shall  he  reap.  For  he 
that  soweth  in  his  flesh,  of  the  flesh  also  shall  reap 
corruption.  But  he,  that  soweth  in  the  spirit,  of 
the  spirit  shall  reap  life  everlasting.  And  in  do- 
ing good,  let  us  not  fail.  For  in  due  time  we 
shall  reap  not  failing.  Therefore,  whilst  we  have 
time,  let  us  work  ^ood  to  all  men,  but  especially  to 
those  who  are  ot  the  household  or  the  faith. 

GR  AD.  .P*.  xci- — It  is  good  to  praise  the  Lord  : 
and  10  sing  to  thy  name,  O  ihou  the  Must  High.  V. 
To  publish  thy  mercy  in  the  morning,  and  thy  sure 
promise  at  midnight.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  For  the  Lord  is  the  V.  Quoiuam  iJem  mag. 
great  God,  and  the  great  nus  Dominus,  et  Rex 
King  over  all  the  earth,  magnus  super  omtiem  tcr* 
Alk-luia.  ram.  Alleluia. 

Luke  vii.— seep.  202. 


XVI.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  4*1 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxix.  —  i  have  patiently  waited 
for  the  Lord,  and  he  hath  looked  down  upon  me: 
he  hath  heard  my  prayer,  ami  put  a  new  canticle  iii 
niy  mouth ;  a  hymn  to  our  God. 

SECRET.  May  thy  mysteries,  O  Lord,  preserve 
us,  and  always  defend  us  against  the  attacks  of  the 
devil. 

COMM.  Johnvl— The  bread  which  I  will  give 
is  my  flesh  for  the  life  of  the  world. 

P,  COMM.  Mcntts.— May  the  efficacy  of  these 
divine  mysteries,  O  Lord,  possess  both  our  souls 
and  bodies ;  that  their  effects,  not  our  own  sen- 
suality,  may  always  take  the  lead  in  us.  Thro*. 

XVI.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROIT.    Ps.lxxxv. 

HAVE  mercy  on  me,  Jl/flscrcre  mihi,  Domi- 
OLord,  for  tothee  •*"-*  ?/e,  quoniam  ud  te 
have  1  cried  out  all  the  clumari  tulu  die:  quia  tu9 
day  ;  for  thou,  O  Lord,  Domiue,  suavis  ac  mitis 
art  sweet  and  mild,  and  cs,  ct  copiusus  in  miseri- 
plenteous  in  merry  to  all  cordia  oumibus  invocant i* 
who  call  on  thee.  Ps.  te  tc. 
Bend  thine  ear  to  me,  Ps.  Inclhia,  Domine9 
O  Lord,  and  liear  me:  anrcm  titaw  mihi,  tt  ex~ 
ior  I  am  needy  and  poor,  audi  me:  quoniam  inops  et 
1.  Glorv.  pauper  sum  ego.  V. Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Tua  TKW.— May  thy  grace,  O  Lord, 
always  prevent  and  lollow  us ;  and  make  us  con- 
stantly /ealous  in  the  practice  of  good  works.  Thro.' 

EPIST.  E/ihes.  iii.  13.  ti.^&rcthreh:  1  pray 
you  not  to  faint  at  my  tribulations  for  you,  which  is 
your  glory.  For  this  cause  I  bow  my  knee  to  tne 
Father  of  our  Lord  J.  Christ,  of  whom  all  paternity 
in  heaven  and  earth  is  named,  that  he  would  grant 
you,  according  to  the  riches  of  his  glory,  to  be 
strengthened  with  might  by  his  Spirit  unto  the  in- 


43°  XVI.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST, 

ward  man.  That  Christ  may  dwell  by  faith  in  your 
hearts ;  that  being  rooted  and  founded  in  chanty,  you 
may  be  able  to  comprehend,  with  all  the  saints,  what 
is  the  breadth  and  length,  and  height  and  depth,  to 
know  also  ihe  charity  of  Christ,  which  surpassed!  all 
knowledge,  that  you  may  be  filled  unto  all  the  ful- 
ness of  God.  Now  to  him  who  is  able  to  do  all 
things  more  abundantly  than  we  desire  or  under- 
stand, according  to  the  power  that  worketh  in  us  ; 
to  him  be  glory  in  the  church,  and  in  Christ  Jesus, 
unto  all  generations  world  without  end.  Amen. 

GRAD.  Ps.  ci.— -  The  Gentiles,  O  Lord,  shall 
fear  thy  name,  and  all  the  kings  of  the  earth  thy 
glory.  V  For  the  Lord  has  built  up  Sion  :  and  he 
shall  be  there  seen  in  his  glory.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Sing  to  the  Lord  a  V.  Cantate  Domino 
new  song  5  for  the  Lord  canticum  ntroum  :  quia 
hath  done  wonderful  mirabilia  fecit  Dominus. 
things.  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

dJOgfptl*      Luke  xiv.   i.    n At  that  time: 

When  Jesus  went  into  the  house  of  one  of  the  chief  ot 
the  Pharisees  on  the  Sabbath-day  to  eat  bread,  they 
watched  him.  And  behold  there  was  a  certain  man 
before  him  that  had  the  dropsy.  And  Jesus  an- 
swering, spoke  to  the  lawyers  and  Pharisees,  saying; 
Is  it  lawful  to  heal  on  the  Sabbath-day  ?  But  they 
held  their  peace.  But  he  taking  him,  healed  himt 
and  sent  him  away.  And  answering  them,  he  said  ; 
Which  of  you  shall  have  an  ass  or  an  ox  fall  into  a 
pit;  and  will  not  immediately  draw  him  out  on  the 
Sabbath-day  ?  And  they  could  not  answer  him  to 
these  things.  And  he  spoke  a  parable  also  to  them 
that  were  invited,  marking  how  they  chose  the  first 
seats  at  the  table,  saying  to  them  :  When  thou  art 
invited  to  a  wedding,  sit  not  down  in  the  first  place, 
lest  perhaps  one  more  honourable  than  thou  be  in. 
vited  by  him  ;  and  he  that  invited  thee  and  him, 
come  and  say  to  thee,  Give  this  man  place:  and 


XVII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  431 

then  thou  begin  with  shame  totake  the  lowest  place. 
But  when  thou  art  invited,  go,  sit  down  in  the  low- 
est place  :  and  when  he  who  invited  thee  cometh, 
he  may  say  to  thee,  Friend,  go  up  higher.  Then 
shalt  thou  have  glory  before  them  that  sit  at  table 
with  thee :  because  every  one  that  exalteth  himself, 
shall  be  humbled  :  and  he  that  humbleth  himself, 
shall  be  exalted.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxix.— Look  down,  O  Lord,  to 
help  me  :  let  them  be  put  to  confusion  and  shame, 
who  seek  to  take  away  my  life :  look  down,  O  Lord, 
to  help  me. 

SECRET.  Cleanse  us,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
by  the  efficacy  of  this  sacrifice :  and  by  thy  mercy 
make  us  worthy  to  partake  thereof.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixx 1  will  remember  thy  justice 

alone,  OLord:  O  God,  thou  hast  instructed  me 
from  my  youth  :  abandon  not  me  in  my  old  age, 
and  at  the  end  of  n;y  life. 

P.  COMM.  Pz/r//7<-a.---'Mercifully,  OLord,  we 
beseech  thee,  purify  our  souls,  and  renew  them  by 
these  holy  m\  steries;  that  we  may  receive  help  there- 
by, both  while  we  are  in  these  mortal  bodies  and 
hereafter.  Thro'. 

XVII.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 

1NTROIT.     Ps.  cxviii. 

•pHOU  art  just,  O  Lord,  TUSTUS  es,  Damine,  et 
•*•  and  thy  judgments  rectum judicium  tnum: 
are  right:  deal  with  thy  fac  cum  servo  tuo  secun- 
servant  according  to  thy  dum  ntHericorduum  tuum. 
mercy.  Ps.  Blessed  are  Ps.  Beati  immaculati  in 
the  undefiled  in  the  way:  via  :  qui  ambulant  in  lege 
who  walk  in  the  l«w  of  Domini. 
the  Lord.  V.  Glory.  V.Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Da,  qn&sumus. — Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  that  thy  people  may  avoid  all  conta- 


4j2  XVII.  SUNDAY  AFTER    PENTECOST. 

gion  of  the  devil:  and   with  a  clean  heart  follow 
thee,  the  only  true  God.     Thro'. 

EPISTLE^  Ephcs.  iv.  i.  6 — Brethren:  I  who 
am  a  prisoner  in  the  Lord,  beseech  you  that  you 
walk  worthy  of  the  vocation  in  which  you  are  call- 
ed. With  all  humility  and  mildness,  with  patience, 
supporting  one  another  in  charity,  Careful  to  keep 
the  unity  of  the  Spirit  in  the  bond  of  peace.  One 
body  and  one  spirit:  as  you  are  called  in  one  hope 
of  your  calling.  One  Lord,  one  faith,  one  baptism. 
One  God  and  Father  of  all,  who  is  above  all,  and 
through  all,  and  in  us  all,  who  is  blessed  for  ever 
more. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxii. —Blessed  is  the  nation  that 
hath  the  Lord  for  its  God :  the  people  whom  he 
hath  chosen  for  his  inheritance.  V.  By  the  word  of 
the  Lord,  and  the  breath  of  his  mouth,  were  the  hea- 
vens formed,  and  the  whole  host  thereof.  Alleluia. 

Ps.  O  Lord,  hear  my  Ps.  Domine,  exaudi 
prayer,  and  let  my  cry  orationem  meam,  et  clamor 
come  unto  thee.  Alle-  wens  ad  te  perveaiat. 
luia.  Alleluia. 

(BO^ptU  Matt.  xxii.  35.46 — At  that  time: 
The  Pharisees  came  to  Jesus;  And  one  of  them,  a 
doctor  of  the  law,  asked  him,  tempting  him  :  Mas- 
ter, which  is  tfie  great  commandment  of  the  law  ? 
Jesus  said  to  him  :  Thou  shaft  love  the  Lord  (hy  God 
with  thy  whole  heart 9  a))d  with  thy  whole  soul,  and 
with  thy  whale  mind.  This  is  the  greatest  and  trie 
first  commandment:  and  the  second  is  like  this: 
u  shalt  love  thy  neighbour  6-9  thyself.  On  these 
two  commandments  dependeth  the  whole  law  and 
the  prophets.  And  the  Pharisees  being  gathered  to- 
gether, Jesus  asked  them,  saying:  What  think  you 
of  Christ  ?  whose  son  is  he?  They  say  to  him  :  Da- 
vid's. Hesaith  to  them:  How  then  doth  David  in 
spirit  call  him  Lord,  saying;  The  Lord  said  to  ivy 
Lord,  sit  on  wii  right  hand  until  I  make  thy  enemies 


WEDNESDAY  IN  EMBER-WEEK. 

thy  footstool?  If  David  then  call  him  Lord,  how  i* 
he  his  son  ?  And  no  man  was  able  to  answer  him 
a  word;  neither  durst  any  man  from  that  day  forth 
ask  him  any  more  qutstions.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Dan.  ix  —  I  Daniel  prayed  unto  my 
God,  saying:  Hear,  O  Lord,  the  prayers  of  thy  ser- 
vant:  look  favourably  on  thy  sanctuary;  and  mer- 
cifully look  down  upon  this  thy  people,  who  are 
called  by  thy  name,  O  God. 

SECRET.  We  humbly  beseech  thy  Majesty,  O 
Lord,  that  the  sacred  m vsteries  we  celebrate  may 
cleanse  us  from  all  past  oftences,  and  from  those  we 
may  hereafter  be  guilty  of.  Thro*. 

COMM.  P*.  Ixxv. — Make  your  vows,  and  per- 
form them  to  the  Lord  your  God,  all  you  who 
bring  offerings  around  his  altar:  to  him,  who  is  the 
awful  One;  to  him,  who  taketh  away  the  breath  of 
princes:  to  him,  who  is  awful  to  all  the  kings  of 
the  earth. 

P.  CO  MM.  Snncfijicationibus.'—  May  our  vic<"? 
be  cured,  O  almighty  God !  and  an  eternal  remedy 
procured  for  us  by  these  sacred  mysteries.  Thro'. 

EMBER-WEEK  IN  SEPTEMBER. 

WEDNESDAY. 

INTRO1T.  Ps.  lx\x.~-.Exult  in  God  our  help, 
joyfully  sing  to  the  God  of  Jacob  :  take  the  pleasing 
psaltery  and  harp;  sound  the  trumpet  in  the  begin- 
ning  of  the  month,  for  it  is  an  ordinance  in  Israel, 
and  a  precept  of  the  God  of  Jacob.  Ps.  He  gave 
the  commandment  to  Joseph,  when  he  came  out  of 
the  land  of  Egypt;  he  heard  a  tongue  he  knew  not. 
T.  Glory. 

After  the  Kyrie  eleison,  ix  said, 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 
I.  COLLECT.  Mttmcof<&r»-~-Mky  our  weakness, 
(>  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  be  supported  bv  the  relief 
II  mercy;  that  as  we  are  continually  decaying 
O  o 


434  WEDNESDAY  IN  EMBER-WEEK. 

by  our  own  nature,  we  may  be  strengthened  by  thy 
goodness.     Thro'. 

T.  LESSON.  Amosix.  13.— Thus  saitk  the  Lord 
God :  Behold  the  days  come,  when  the  ploughman 
shall  overtake  the  reaper,  and  the  treader  of  grapes 
him  that  soweth  seed  ;  and  the  mountains  shall  drop 
sweetness,  and  every  hill  shall  be  tilled.  And  I  will 
bring  back  the  captivity  of  my  people  Israel ;  and 
they  shall  build  the  abandoned  cities,  and  inhabit 
them  ;  and  they  shall  plant  vineyards,  and  drink  the 
wine  of  them;  and  shall  make  gardens,  and  eat  the 
fruits  of  them.  And  I  will  plant  them  upon  their  own 
land ;  and  I  will  no  more  pluck  them  out  of  their  land, 
which  I  have  given  them,  saith  the  Lord  thy  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxii. — Who  is  like  the  Lord  our 
God,  who  dwellest  on  high;  and  looketh  down  on 
what  is  below  in  heaven  and  on  earth  ?  V.  Who  rais- 
eth  from  the  earth  the  needy  one;  and  the  poor  one 
from  the  dunghill. 

II.  COLLECT.  Pr&star— Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  the  humble  request  of  thy  family  ; 
that  whilst  they  observe  abstinence  from  bodily  food, 
their  souls  may  fast  from  sin.  Thro'. 

Here  is  said  the  II.  and  III.  Collects,  as  p.  xx. 

II.  LESSON.  2  Esdr.  viii.  i.  10.—  In  those  days; 
All  the  people  were  gathered  together  as  one  man, 
in  the  street  which  is  before  the  water  gate,  and  they 
spoke  to  Esdras  the  scribe,  to  bring  the  book  of  the 
law  of  Moses,  which  the  Lord  had  commanded  to 
Israel.  Then  Esdras  the  priest  brought  the  law  be- 
fore the  multitude  of  women,  and  all  those  that  could 
understand,  on  the  first  day  of  the  beventh  month. 
And  he  read  it  plainly  in  the  street  that  was  before 
the  water  gate,  from  the  morning  until  mid-day,  be- 
fore the  men  and  the  women,  and  all  those  that 
could  understand.  And  the  ears  of  all  the  people 
were  attentive  to  the  book.  And  Esdras  the  scribe 
stood  upon  a  step  of  wood,  which  he  made  to  speak 


WEDNESDAY  IN  EMBER-WEEK:.  435 

upon.  And  he  opened  the  book  before  all  the  peo- 
ple, for  he  was  above  all  the  people;  and  when  he 
had  opened  it,  all  the  people  stood.  And  Esdras 
blessed  the  Lord  the  great  God  :  and  all  the  people 
answered:  Amen,  amen;  lifting  up  their  hands. 
And  they  bowed  down,  with  their  faces  to  the 
ground.  Now  the  Levites  made  silence  among  the 
people  to  hear  the  law  ;  and  the  people  stood  in 
their  place.  And  they  read  in  the  hook  of  the  law 
of  God  distinctly  and  plainly  to  be  understood;  and 
they  understood  when  it  was  read.  And  Nehemias, 
and  Esdras  the  priest  and  scribe,  and  the  Levites  who 
interpreted  to  all  the  people,  said :  This  is  a  holy 
day  to  the  Lord  our  God,  do  not  mourn,  nor  weep. 
For  all  the  people  wept  when  they  heard  the  words 
of  the  law.  And  he  said  to  them:  Go,  eat  fat 
meats,  and  drink  sweet  wine,  and  send  portions  to 
them  that  have  not  prepared  for  themselves ;  because 
it  is  the  holy  day  ot  the  Lord,  and  be  not  sad,  for  the 
joy  of  the  Lord'is  our  strength. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxii.— Blessed  is  the  nation,  whose 
God  is  the  Lord;  the  people,  whom  the  Lord  hath 
chosen  for  his  inheritance.  V.  The  heavens  were 
formed  by  the  word  of  the  Lord,  and  by  the  breath 
of  his  mouth  the  whole  host  thereof. 

(000p£l.  Mark  ix.  16. — At  that  time  :  One  of 
the  multitude  speaking  to  Jesus,  said :  Master,  I  have 
brought  to  thee  my  son,  who  hath  a  dumb  spirit, 
and  wheresoever  he  taketh  him,  he  dasheth  him,  and 
he  foameth,  and  gnasheth  with  his  teeth,  and  pineth 
away  ;  and  I  spoke  to  thy  disciples  to  cast  him  out, 
and  they  could  not.  And  Jesus  answering  them, 
said:  O  incredulous  generation,  how  long  shall  I  be 
with  you  ?  how  long  shall  I  suffer  you  ?  bring  him 
to  me.  And  they  brought  him.  And  when  he  had 
seen  him,  immediately  the  spirit  troubled  him;  and 
being  thrown  down  upom  the  ground,  he  rolled 
about  foaming.  And  he  asked  his  father;  How 
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4jb  WEDNESDAY  IN  EMBER-WEEK. 

long  is  it  since  this  hath  happened  unto  him  ?  But 
lie  said,  From  his  infancy :  and  oftentimes  hath  he 
cast  him  into  the  fire,  and  into  waters,  to  destroy 
him.  But  if  tKou  canst  do  any  thing,  have  compas- 
sion on  us,  and  help  us.  And  Jesus  saith  to  him :  If 
thou  canst  believe,  all  things  are  possible  to  him  that 
believeth.  And  immediately  the  Father  of  the  boy 
crying  out,  with  tears  said  ;  I  do  believe,  Lord :  help 
thou  my  unbelief.  And  when  Jesus  saw  the  multi- 
tude running  together,  he  threatened  the  unclean 
spirit,  saying  to  him  ;  Thou  deaf  and  dumb  spirit,  1 
command  thee,  go  out  of  him;  and  enter  no  more 
into  him.  And  crying  out,  and  greatly  tearing  him, 
he  vvent  out  of  him,  and  he  became  as  one  dead  j 
insomuch  that  many  said:  He  is  dead.  But  Jesus 
taking  him  by  the  hand,  lifted  him  up;  and  he 
arose.  And  when  he  was  come  into  the  house,  his 
disciples  asked  him  privately  :  Why  could  not  we 
cast  him  out?  And  he  said  to  them  :  This  kind  can 
go  out  by  nothing,  but  by  prayer  and  fasting. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxvii — I  will  meditate  on  thy 
commandments,  which  I  have  loved  exceedingly  ; 
and  I  will  put  forth  my  hands  to  thy  command- 
ments, which  I  have  loved. 

SECRET.  May  this  oblation,  O  Lord,  we  be. 
seech  thee,  cleanse  away  our  sins;  and  sanctify  both 
the  bodies  and  souls  of  thy  servants  for  the  celebrat- 
ing of  this  sacrifice.  Thro'. 

CO  AIM.  2  Esdr,  viii.— Eat  your  fat  meats,  and 
drink  your  sweet  wine,  and  send  some  to  those  who 
have  not  prepared  any  for  themselves;  for  this  is  a 
holy  day  of  the  Lord,  be  not  therefore  sad  j  for  to 
rejoice  in  the  Lord  is  our  strength. 

P.  COMM.     Sumentes. Having  received,  O 

Lord,  these  heavenly  gifts,  we  humbly  beseech  thee, 
that  what  by  thy  mercy  we  celebrate  with  due  ho* 
mage,  we  may  also  receive  with  dispositions  worthy 
of  thy  presents.  Thro*. 


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FRIDAY  IN  EMBER-WEEK. 

INTROiT.  Ps.  civ.— Let  the  hearts  of  thos? 
\vho  seek  the  Lord,  rejoice:  seek  the  Lord,  and  b? 
strengthens  d  ;  for  ever  seek  his  presence.  Ps.  Praise 
the  Lord,  and  call  upon  his  name  5  publish  his  works 
among  the  Gentiles  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.     Prasta.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 

0  Almighty  God,  that  whilst  with  >early  devotion 
we  keep   these  holy  appointed  times,  we  may  be 
well-pleasing  to  thee  in  body  and  mind.     Thro'. 

LESSON.  Osee  xiv.  2.—  Thus  saith  the  Lord: 
Return,  O  Israel,  to  the  Lord  thy  God  ;  for  them  hast 
fallen  down  by  thy  iniquity.  Take  with  you  words, 
and  return  to  the  Lord,  and  say  to  him  :  Take  away 
all  iniquity,  and  receive  the  good  j  and  we  will  ren- 
der the  calves  of  our  lips.  Assyria  shall  not  save  us, 
we  will  not  ride  upon  horses,  neither  will  we  say  any 
more:  the  works  of  our  hands  are  our  gods;  for 
thou  wilt  have  mercy  on  the  fatherless  that  is  in  thee. 

1  will  heal  their  breaches,  I  will  love  them  freely; 
for  my  wrath  is  turntd  away  from  them.     1  will   be 
as  the  dew,  Israel  shall   spring  as  the  lily,   and  his 
root  shall    shoot   forth   as  that  of   Libanus.     His 
branches  shall  spread,  and  his  glory  shall  be  as  the 
olive-tree  ;  and  his  smeil  as  that  of  Libanus.     They 
shall  be  converted  that  sit  under  his  shadow;  they 
shall  live  upon  wheat,  and  they  shall   blossom  as  a 
vine:  his  memorial  shall  be  as  ihe  wine  of  Libanus. 
Kphraim  shall  say,  What  have  I  to  do  any  more  with 
idols  ?  1  will  hear  him,  and  1  will  make  him  flourish 
like  a  green   fir-tree:  from  me  is  thy   fruit  found. 
M  ho  is  wise,  and  he  shall  understand  these  tilings  ? 
prudent,  and  he  shall  know  these  things?-. -For  ihe 
ways  of  the  Lord  are  right,  and  the  just  shall  walk 
in  them;   but  the  transgressors  shall  fail  in  them. 

GRAD.     />;.    Kxx.x Turn   to  us,  O  Lord,  a 

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while,  and  hear  thy  servants.     F.  Thou,  O  Lord, 

hast  been  our  refuge  from  generation  to  generation. 

d£>Q#p£l.».      Xw/cevii.  36.  50*  as  in  p.  221. 

OFFERT.  -Ps.  cii.—Bless  the  Lord,  O  my  soul, 
and  forget  not  all  that  he  hath  done  for  thee:  and 
thy  youth  shall  be  renewed  like  the  eagle. 

SECRKT.  May  the  sacrifice  we  offer  on  this 
fast,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  be  well-pleasing  to 
thee;  that  cleansing  away  our  sins,  it  may  make  us 
worthy  of  thy  grace,  and  bring  us  to  thy  eternal 
promises.  Thro*. 

COMM.     Ps.  cxviii Take  from  me  reproach 

and  contempt,  for  I  have  sought  thy  ordinances,  O 
Lord  -9  and  thy  law  is  my  study. 

P.  COMM.  Quasumus.— -We  beseech  thee,  O 
almighty  God,  that  while  we  return  thee  thanks  for 
what  we  have  received,  we  may  receive  those  bless- 
ings, which  are  still  greater.  Thro'. 

SATURDAY  IN  EMBER- WEEK. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xciv.— Come  let  us  adore  God, 
let  us  fall  prostrate  before  the  Lord,  let  us  weep  in 
the  presence  of  him,  who  made  us;  for  he  is  the 
Lord  our  God.  Ps.  Let  us  exult  before  the  Lord  j 
let  us  joyfully  sing  to  God  our  Saviour.  V.  Glory. 

After  the  Kyrie  eleison,  is  said, 
Let  us  pray.    Let  us  kneel  down    R.  Stand  up  again. 

I.  COLLECT.  O  almighty  and  everlasting  God, 
who,  by  a  wholesome  abstinence,  healest  both  body 
and  soul;  we  humbly  beseech  thy  Majesty,  that,  be- 
ing appeased  by  our  prayers  and  fasts,  thou  mayest 
grant  us  present  and  future  help.  Thro'. 

I.  LESSON.  Lev.  xxiii.  -26.— In  those  days  :  The 
Lord  spake  to  Moses  saying ;  Upon  the  tenth  day  of 
the  seventh  month  shall  be  the  day  of  atonement  j 
it  shall  be  most  solemn,  and  shall  be  called  holy  : 
and  you  shall  afflict  your  souls  on  that  day,  and 
shall  offer  a  holocaust  to  the  Lord.  You  shall  do  no 


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servile^work  in  the  time  of  this  day  ;  because  it  is  a 
day  of  propitiation,  that  the  Lord  our  God  may  be 
merciful  unto  you.  Every  soul  that  is  not  afflicted 
on  this  day,  shall  perish  from  among  his  people: 
and  every  soul  that  shall  do  any  work,  the  same  will 
I  destroy  from  among  his  people.  You  shall  do  no 
work,  therefore  on  that  day  :  it  shall  be  an  everlast- 
ing ordinance  unto  -you  in  all  your  generations  and 
dwellings.  It  is  a  Sabbath  of  rest,  and  you  shall  af- 
flict your  souls,  beginning  on  the  ninth  day  of  the 
month  :  from  evening  until  evening  you  shall  cele- 
brate your  Sabbaths,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty.  . 

GRAD.     Ps.  Ixxviii Pardon  us,  O  Lord,  our 

sins:  never  let  the  Gentiles  say  ;  Where  is  now  their 
God  ?     V.  Help  us,  O  God  our  Saviour;  and  deli- 
ver ns  for  the  honour  of  thy  own  name,  O  Lord. 
Let  us  pray.    Let  us  kneel  down.  Ju  Stand  up  again. 

II.  COLLECT.  .Dane's.-— Grant,  we  beseecb 
thee,  O  almighty  God,  that  by  fasting  we  may  be 
filled  with  thy  grace;,  and  by  abstinence  become 
stronger  than  all  our  enemies.  Thro'. 

II.  LESSON.  Lev.  xxiii.  39.  4^. — In  those  days : 
The  Lord  spoke  to  Moses,  saying:  From  the  fifteenth 
day  of  the  seventh  month,  when  you  shall  have  ga- 
thered in  all  the  fruits  of  your  land,  you  shall  cele- 
brate the  feast  of  the  Lord  seven  days,  on  the  first 
day  and  the  eighth  shall  be  a  Sabbath,  that  is  a  day 
of  rest.  And  you  shall  take  to  you  on  the  first  day 
the  fruits  of  the  fairest  tree,  and  branches  of  palm- 
trees,  and  boughs  of  thick  trees,  and  willows  of  the 
brook,  and  you  shall  rejoice  before  the  Lord  your 
God.  And  you  shall  keep  the  solemnity  thereof 
seven  days  in  the  year.  It  shall  be  an  everlasting  or- 
dinance in  your  generations.  In  the  seventh  month 
shall  you  celebrate  this  feast.  And  you  shall  dwell 
in  bowers  seven  days,  every  one  that  is  of  the  race  of 
Israel,  shall  dwell  in  tabernacles :  that  your  poste- 
rity may  know  that  I  made  the  children  of  Israel  to 


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dwell  in  tabernacles,  when  I  brought  them  out  of 
the  land  of  Egypt.     I  am  the  Lord  your  God. 

GR AD.     Pi,  Ixxxiii.— Look,  O  God,  our  Protec- 
tor, look  down  on  thy  servants.     V.  Lord  God  of 
Hosts,  hear  the'prayers  of  thy  servants. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  11.  Stand  up  again. 

111.  COLLECT.  Tuerc.— Defend,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  thy  family  ;  that  by  thy  bounty,  we 
may  obtain  those  helps  of  salvation,  which,  by  thy 
inspiration,  we  seek  after.  Thro\ 

III.  LESSON.     Micheas  vii.    14.— O   Lord  our 
God:  Feed  thy  people  with  thy  rod,  the  flock  of 
thy  inheritance,  them  that  dwell  alone  in  the  fo- 
rest,  according  to  the  days  of  old.     The  nations 
shall   se'e,    and   shall    be   confounded   at  all   their 
strength.     Who  is  a  God  like  to  thee,  who  takest 
away  iniquity,  and  passest  by  the  sin  of  the  remnant 
of  thy  inheritance  ?    he  will   send   his  fury  in  no 
more,    because  he    delighteth  in  mercy,     He  will 
turn  again  and  have  mercy  on  us:  he  will  put  away 
our  iniquities;  and  he  will  cast  all  our  sins  into  the 
bottom  of  the  sea.     Thou  wilt  perform  the  truth 
to  Jacob,  thy  mercy  to  Abraham  :  which  thou   hast 
sworn  to  our  fathers,  from  the  days  of  old,  O  Lord 
our  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxxix.— -Turn  to  us,  O  Lord,  a 
while,  and  hear  thy  servants.  V.  Thou,  O  Lord, 
hast  been  our  refuge  from  generation  to  generation. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 

IV.  COLLECT.     Prvertfl.—- Grant,   O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  we  may  so  abstain  from  corpo- 
real food,  as  to  fast  from  all  tho:>e  vices  {hat  attack 
us.    Thro*. 

IV.  LESSON.  Zach.  viii.  14— -Zu  those  days: 
The  tcord  of  the  Lord  came  to  me,  saying  ;  Thus  saith 
the  Lord  of  Hosts:  As  I  purposed  to  afflict  you, 
when  your  fathers  had  provoked  me  to  wrath,  and 
]  had  no  mercy  :  so,  turning  again,  1  have  thought 


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in  these  days  to  do  good  to  the  house  of  Juda,  and 
Jerusalem  ;  fear  not.  These  then  are  the  things 
which  you  shall  do  ;  Speak  ye  truth  every  one  to 
his  neighbour;  judge  ye  truth  and  judgment  ot 
peace  in  your  gates.  And  let  none  of  you  imagine 
eril  in  your  hearts  against  his  friend  ;  and  love  not 
a  false  oath :  for  all  these  are  the  things  that  I  hate, 
saith  the  Lord.  And  the  word  of  the  Lord  of  Hosts 
came  to  me,  saying  :  Thus  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts: 
The  fast  of  the  fourth  month,  and  the  fast  of  the 
fifth,  and  the  fast  of  the  seventh,  and  the  fast  of  the 
tenth,  shall  be  to  the  house  of  Juda,  joy,  and  glad- 
ness, and  great  solemnities;  only  love  ye  truth  and 
peace,  saith  the.  Lord  of  Hosts. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxl.— Let  my  prayer,  O  Lord,  as- 
cend like  incense  "m  thy  sight,  F/And  let  the  lift- 
ing up  of  my  hands  be  an  evening  sacrifice. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  kneel  down.  R.  Stand  up  again. 
V.  COLLECT.  Ut  wo&w.—As  it  is  by  thy  grace, 
O  Lord,  we  render  thee  the  tribute  of  this  solemn 
fast;  so  grant  us,  we  beseech  thee,  the  favour  of  thy 
mercy  and  pardon.  Thro'. 

V.  LESSON.  Dan.  iii.  49.— In  those  days  :  The 
angel  of  the  Lord  went  down  with  Azarias  and  his 
companions  into  the  furnace;  ami  he  drove  the 
flame  of  the  fire  out  of  the  furnace,  and  made  the 
midst  of  the  furnace  like  the  blowing  of  a  wind 
bringing  dew,  and  the  fire  touched  them  not  at  al!, 
nor  troubled  them,  nor  did  them  any  harm.  Then 
these  three,  as  with  one  mouth,  praised  and  glori- 
fied, and  blessc-d  God  in  the  furnace,  saying : 
Here  follow  the  Canticle  and  VI.  Collect,  pp.  66,  67, 

with  t he  Collect,  A  cunctis,  p  xx. 
EPISTLE.  Ilcb.  ix.  2.  12.— Brethren:  There 
Was  a  tabernacle  made  the  first,  wherein  were  the 
candlesticks,  and  the  table,  and  the  setting  forth  of 
loaves,  which  is  called  the  Holy.  And  after  the 
second  veil,  the  tabernacle,  \\hich  is  called  the 
Vlo\y  of  Holies;  having  the  golden  censer,  and  the 


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ark  of  the  covenant  covered  about  on  every  part  with 
gold,  in  which  was  the  golden  pot  that  had  manna, 
and  the  rod  of  Aaron  that  had  blossomed,  and  the 
tables  of  the  covenant;  and  over  it  were  the  cheru- 
bims  of  glory  over  shadowing  the  propitiatory:  of 
which  it  is  not  needful  to  speak  now  particularly. 
Now  these  things  being  thus  ordered  ;  into  the  first 
tabernacle  the  priests  indeed  always  entered,  accom- 
plishing the  offices  of  sacrifices.  But  into  the  se- 
cond, the  high-priest  alone,  once  a  year  ;  not 
without  blood,  which  he  ofFereth  for  his  own,  and 
the  people's  ignorance  :  the  Holy  Ghost  signifying 
this,  that  the  way  into  the  Holies  was  not  yet  made 
manifest,  whilst  the  former  tabernacle  was  yet 
standing.  Which  is  a  parable  of  the  time  then  pre- 
sent: according  to  which  gifts  and  sacrifices  are  of- 
fered,  which  cannot,  as  to  conscience,  make  him 
perfect  that  serveth,  only  in  meats  and  drinks,  and 
divers  washings,  and  justices  of  the  flesh,  laid  on 
them  until  the  time  of  correction.  But  Christ  be- 
ing  come  a  high-priest  of  the  good  things  to  come, 
by  a  greater  and  more  perfect  tabernacle  not  made 
with  hands,  that  is,  not  of  this  creation  :  neither  by 
the  blood  of  goats,  or  of  calves,  but  by  his  own 
blood,  entered  once  into  the  Holies,  having  obtained 
eternal  redemption, 

TRACT.    Ps.  cxvi.—  Praise    the    Lord   all   ye 
nations  ;    praise  him  all  ye  people:  for  his  mercy  is  '. 
confirmed  upon  us  j  and  the  truth  of  the  Lord  re- 
main eth  for  ever. 


U  Lukexiu.  6.  1.7.—  At  that  time  : 
Jems  spoke  to  the  multitude  this  parable:  A  certain 
man  had  a  fig-tree  planted  in  his  vineyard,  and  he 
came  seeking  fruit  on  it,  and  found  none.  And  he 
.  said  to  the  dresser  of  the  vineyard  :  Behold  these 
three  years  I  come  seeking  fruit  on  this  fig-  tree,  and 
I  find  none.  Cut  it  down  therefore  ;  why  cumbereth 
It  the  ground?  But  he  answering,  said  to  himf: 


SATURDAY  IN  EMBER-W1EK.  443 

Lord,  let  it  alone  this  year  also  until  I  dig  about  it, 
and  dung  it.  And  if  happily  it  bear  fruit;  but  if 
not,  then  after  that  thou  shalt  cut  it  down.  And 
he  was  teaching  in  their  synagogue  on  the  Sabbath. 
And  behold  there  was  a  woman  who  had  a  spirit  of 
infirmity  eighteen  years;  and  she  was  bowed  toge- 
ther, and  could  not  look  upwards  at  all.  And 
when  Jesus  saw  her,  he  called  her  to  him,  and  said 
to  her :  Woman,  thou  art  delivered  from  thy  infir- 
mity. And  he  laid  his  hands  upon  her,  and  imme- 
diately she  was  made  straight,  and  glorified  God. 
And  '(he  ruler  of  the  synagogue  (being  angry  that 
Jesus  had  healed  on  the  Sabbath)  answering,  said 
to  the  multitude:  There  are  six,  days  wherein  you 
ought  to  work.  In  them  therefore  come,  and  be 
healed,  and  not  on  the  Sabbath-day.  And  the  Lord 
answering  him,  said:  Ye  hypocrites,  doth  not 
every  one  of  you  on  the  Sabbath-day  loose  his  ox 
or  his  ass  from  the  manger,  and  lead  them  to  water? 
And  ought  not  this  daughter  of  Abraham,  whom 
Satan  had  bound,  lo,  these  eighteen  years,  be  loos- 
ed from  this  bond  on  the  Sabbath-day  ?  And  when 
he  said  these  things,  all  his  adversaries  were  asham- 
ed :  and  all  the  people  rejoiced  for  all  the  things 
that  were  gloriously  done  by  him, 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxxiii.— O  Lord  God  of  my  sal. 
vation,  I  have  cried  out  in  thy  presence  day  and 
night:  let  my  prayer,  O  Lord,  come  before  thee. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  almighty 
God,  that  the  offerings  presented  before  the  eyes  of 
thy  Majesty,  may  obtain  for  us  the  grace  of  devo- 
tion, and  everlasting  life.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Lev.  xxiii. — Tn  the  seventh  month  you 
shall  keep  feasts,  because  I  made  the  children  of 
Israel  dwell  in  tents,  when  I  brought  them  out  of 
the  land  of  Egypt :  I  am  the  Lord  your  God, 

P.  COMM,  Ptrjlciant, — May  thy  sacraments,  O 
Lord,  effect  in  us  what  they  contain  :  that  we  may 


444         XVHI,  SUNDAY   AFTER  PENTECOST^ 

enjoy  in  reality  what  we  now  celebrate  in  represen- 
tation.    Thro'. 

XV11L'  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTR01T.    Eccles.  xxxvi. 

GIVE  peace,  O  Lord,  T)A  poccm9  Domine, 
to  those  who  pati-  *^  smtinentibus  te,  ut 
ently  wait  for  thee,  that  prophets  tui  fideles  iitve* 
thy  prophets  may  be  niantur :  exaudi  prices 
found  faithful :  hear  the  servi  tui,  et  plcbis  tua  h- 
prayers  of  thy  servant,  rael. 
and  of  thy  people  Israel,  Ps.  Lalatus  sum  in 
Ps.  I  rejoiced  at  what  his  qua  did  a  sunt  mild  : 
had  been  told  me :  we  in  domum  Domini  ibi- 
are  to  go  up  to  the  house  W/MS. 
of  the  Lord.  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT,  Dirigut. — May  the  influence  of  thy 
mercy,  O  Lord,  direct  our  souls:  for  without  thy 
help  we  can  do  nothing  well  pleasing  to  thee.Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  i.  4.  8.-  -brethren:  I  give 
thanks  to  my  God  always  for  you,  for  the  grace  of 
God,  that  is  given  you  in  Christ  Jesus;  that  in  all 
things  you  are  made  rich  in  him,  and  in  all  utter- 
ance,  and  in  nil  knowledge,  as  the  testimony  of 
Christ  was  confirmed  to  you.  So  that  nothing  is 
wanting  to  you  in  any  grace,  waiting  for  the  mani- 
festation of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Who  also  will 
confirm  you  unto  the  end  without  crime,  in  the 
day  of  the  coming  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxi.—I  rejoiced  at  what  hath  been 
told  me:  we  are  to  go  up  to  the  house  of  the  Lord. 
V.  May  peace  be  on  thy  ramparts,  and  plenty  with, 
in  thy  walls.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

K.  The  Gentiles  shall         V.  Timcbitnt  Gentcsrio- 
fear  thy  name,   O  Lord  ;     men    tvum,  Dovdnc  ;    et 
and    all     the     kings     of    onines  Regcs  terra  glori- 
the  earth  thy  glory.     Al-     am  tuam.    Alleluia. 
leluia. 


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Matt.  ix.  i.  9.— At  that  Lime  :  Jesus 
entering  into  a  boar,  he  passed  over  the  water  and 
came  into  his  own  city.  And  behold  they  brought 
to  him  one  sick  of  the  palsy,  lying  on  a  bed.  And 
Jesus  seeing  their  faith,  said  to  the  man  sick  of  the 
palsy:  Be  of  good  heart,  son,  thy  sins  are  forgiven 
thee.  And  behold  some  of  the  Scribes  said  within, 
themselves.;  He  blasphemeth.  And  Jesus  seeing 
their  thoughts,  said;  Why  do  you  think  evils  in  your 
hearts?  Whether  is  it  easier  to  say,  Thy  sins  are 
forgiven  thee  :  or  to  say,  Arise  and  walk.  But 
that  you  may  know  that  the  Son  of  Man  hath 
power  on  earth  to  forgive  sins,  (then  said  he  to  the 
man  sick  of  the  palsy)  Arise,  take  up  thy  bed,  and 
go  into  thy  house.  And  he  arose  and  went  into  his 
house.  And  the  multitudes  seeing  it,  feared,  and 
glorified  God  that  gave  such  power  to  men.  CREDO, 

Oi'T'EUT.  Exod.  xxiv. — Moses  consecrated  an. 
altar  to  the  Lord,  offering  whole  burnt-offerings 
thereon,  and  slaying  victims :  he  made  an  evening 
sacrifice-;  for  a  sweet  odour  to  the  Lord  God  ia  the 
sight  of  the  children  of  Israel. 

SIX' RET.  OGod,  who  by  the  participation  of 
this  august  sacrifice  makest  us  partakers  of  the  one 
supreme  divine  nature:  grant,  we  beseech  thee> 
that  as  we  know  thy  truth,  so  we  may  shew  it  by  a 
worthy  conduct  of  life.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xci. — Take  with  you  offerings,  and 
enter  his  courts:  adore  the  Lord  in  his  holy  place. 

P.  COMM.  Gratwt.—Being  fed,  O  Lord,  with 
this  holy  sacrifice,  we  give  thee  thanks,  humbly  be- 
seeching thy  mercy:  that  thou  wouldst  make- us 
worthy  of  what  we  have  received.  Thro*. 

XIX.    SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTRO  IT.    Ps.  Ixxvii. 

I    AM   the  Saviour  of     OAltis  popiili   ego  sum, 
my  people,  ?aith  the    *•*  dicti  JDominusi  de  qua* 


44$  XIX.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

Lord:  in  whatever  dis«  cumque  tribulations  da- 
tress  they  call  on  me,  I  waver int  ad  me,  cxaudiam 
will  hear  them  :  and  will  cos  :  et  ero  illorum  Domi* 
be  their  Lord*  for  ever,  nus  in  pcrpetuum. 
Ps.  Attend  to  my  law,  Ps.  Attendite,  papule 
O  my  people  :  give  ear  to  nieus,  hgem  meam:  indi» 
the  words  of  my -mouth,  nateaurem'uestramin'oer. 
V.  Glory.  ba  oris  mei.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotent. —  O  almighty  and  mer- 
ciful God,  favourably  defend  us  from  all  adversity  : 
that  being  free  both  in  soul  and  body,  we  may  with 
security  of  mind  perform  thy  service.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Eph.  iv.  23.  28. — Brethren:  Be  re- 
newed  in  the  spirit  of  your  mind;  and  put  on  the 
new  man,  who,  according  to  God,  is  created  in 
justice,  and  holiness  of  truth.  Wherefore  putting 
away  lying,  speak  ye  the  truth  every  man  to  his 
neighbour:  for  we  are  members  one  of  another.  Be 
angry  and  sin  not.  Let  not  the  sun  go  down  upon 
your  anger.  Give  not  place  to  the  devil.  He  that 
stole,  let  him  now  steal  no  more :  but  rather  let 
him  labour  working  with  his  hands  the  thing  which 
is  good,  that  he  may  have  something  to  give  to  him 
that  suffereth  need. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxl. — Let  my  prayer  ascend  like  in- 
cense in  thy  sight,  O  Lord.  V.  And  the  raising  up 
my  hands  be  like  the  evening  sacrifice.  AHel.  Allel. 

V.  Praise  the  Lord,  V.  Confitemini  Doud- 
and  call  upon  his  name  :  no,  tt  invocatenomenejus  : 
publish  his  .vorks  among  annuntiatc  inter  Gentcs 
the  Genii1!  s.  Alleluia.  opera  gas.  Alleluia. 

(J50$p0L  Matt.\\i\.  i.  14.—  ^  that  time. 
Jesus  spoke  to  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees  in  a  para- 
ble, saying  :  The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  likened  to 
a  king,  who  made  a  marriage  (or  his  son.  And  he 
sent  his  servants,  to  call  them  that  were  invited  to 
the  marriage -,  and  they  would  not  come.  Again  he 
seat  other  servants,  saying ;  Tell  them  that  were  in* 


XXI.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.     447 

vite4;  Behold,  I  have  prepared  my  dinner;  my 
beeves  and  fallings  are  killed,  and  all  things  are  rea- 
dy :  come  ye  to  the  marriage.  But  they  neglected, 
and  went  their  ways,  one  to  his  farm,  and  another 
to  his  merchandize.  And  the  rest  laid  hands  on  his 
servants,  and  having  treated  them  contumeliously 
put  them  to  death.  But  when  the  king  had  heard 
of  it,  he  was  angry,  and  sending  his  armies,  he  de- 
stroyed those  murderers,  and  burnt  their  city.  Then 
he  saith  to  his  servants:  The  marriage  indeed  is 
ready ;  but  they  that  were  invited,  were  not  wor- 
thy. Go  ye  therefore  into  the  high- ways  j  and  as 
many  as  you  shall  find,  call  to  the  marriage.  And 
the  servants  going  forth  into  the  high- ways,  gathered 
together  all  that  they  found,  both  bad  and  good : 
and  the  marriage  was  filled  with  guests.  And  the 
king  went  in  to  see  the  guests  j  and  he  saw  there  a 
man  who  had  not  on  a  wedding  garment.  And  he 
saith  to  him :  Friend,  how  earnest  thou  in  hither 
not  having  on  a  wedding  garment  ?  But  he  was  si- 
lent. Then  the  king  said  to  the  waiters  ;  Bind  his 
hands  and  his  feet,  and  cast  him  into  the  exterior 
darkness:  there  shall  be  weeping  and  gnashing  of 
teeth.  For  many  are  called,  but  few  are  chosen. 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxxvii.— Though  I  should  walk 
in  the  midst  of  distress,  thou,  O  Lord,  wouldst  pre* 
serve  my  life  ;  for  thou  wilt  stretch  thy  hand  against 
the  wrath  of  my  enemies,  and  thy  right  hand  will 
save  me.  < 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  offerings  we  bring  before  thy  divine  Majesty, 
may  avail  to  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  cxviii.— Thou  hast  ordered  thy 
commandments  to  be  strictly  kept :  O  that  my  ways 
may  be  directed  to  keep  thy  ordinances! 

P.  COMM.  Tua  720$.-- May  the  healing  efficacy 
of  these  thy  mysteries,  O  Lord,  mercifully  free  us 


44$  XX.  SUNDAY  AFTER    PENTECOST, 

from  our  perverseness,  and  make  us  always  obedi- 
ent to  thy  commandments.     Thro'. 

xx.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 

IN TROIT.  Dan.  iii. 

WHatever  thou  hast  /~\Mnia  qu#  fecisti  no* 
done  to  us,  O  »/  bis,  JUoniine,  in  vero 
Lord,  thou  hast  done  judiciofecisti:  quia  pecca- 
by  a  just  judgment:  for  mmus  tibi,  ct  wan.dati& 
we  have  sinned,  and  dis*  tuis  non  ubedivi?tnist  scd da 
Obeyed  thy  command-  g/oriam.?wmini  tuo,  etfac 
ments:  but  glorify  thy  nobiscum  stcundum  -multi* 
name,  and  deal  with  us  tud'mcm  misericordia  tutc* 
according  to  thy  great  Ps.  cxviii.  Beati  imma- 
mercy.  Ps.  Blessed  are  culati  inviai.qui  ambu« 
the  un defiled  in  the  way,  lant  m  lege  Domini. 
who  walk  in  the  law  of'  V.  Gloria  Patri9  ct 
the  Lord,  V.  Glory.  Filio,  $c. 

COLLECT.  Largire.  —  Favourably  grant,  we 
"beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  thy  servants  both  pardon 
and  peace;  that,  being  cleansed  from  the  guilt  of 
all  their  offences,  they  may  serve  thee  with  secure 
minds.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Eph.v.  \$.  *\. --Brethren  :  See  how 
you  walk  circumspectly ;  not  as  unwise,  but  as  wise : 
redeeming  the  time,  because  the  days  are  evil. 
Wherefore  become  not  unwise,  but  understanding 
\vhat  is  the  will  of  God.  Ami  be  not  drunk  with 
wine,  wherein  is  luxury,  but  be  filled  with  the  holy. 
Spirit,  speaking  to  yourselves  in  psalms  and  hymns, 
and  spiritual  canticles,  singing  and  making  melody 
in  your  hearts  to  the  Lord  ;  giving  thanks  always  for 
all  things,  in  the  name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  to 
C>od  and  the  Father.  Being  subject  one  to  another 
in  the  fear  of  Christ. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxiv— -The  eyes  of  all  creatures 
look  up  to  thee,  O  Lord}  and  thou  givest  them  food 


XX.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  44$ 

in  due  season.   V.  Thou  openest  thy  hand,  and  fillest 
every  animal  with  blessings.     Alleluia,    Alleluia. 

V.  My  heart  is  ready,         V.  Paratum  cor  mcum9 
O  God,  my  heart  is  rea-     Dens,  paratum  cor  maun : 
dy:    I   will   sing  oil  the     cantabo    ct   p&allam  tibi+ 
psaltery   to  thee,  O   my    gloria  mea.  Alleluia* 
glory.     Alleluia. 

CBOSpCU  John  iv.  46.  53.  —  At  that  time' 
There  was  a  certain  ruler  whose  son  was  sick  at  Ca- 
pharnaum.  He,  having  heard  that  Jesus  was  come 
from  Juclea  into  Galilee,  went  to  him,  and  prayed 
him  to  come  down  and  heal  his  son ;  lor  he  was  at 
the  point  of  death.  Jesus  therefore  said  to  him  : 
Unless  you  see  signs  and  wonders,  you  believe  not. 
The  ruler  saith  to  him:  Lord,  come  down  before 
my  son  die.  Jesus  saith  to  him  :  Go  thy  way,  thy 
son  liveth.  The  man  believed  the  word  which 
Jesus  said  to  him,  and  went  his  way.  And  as  he  was 
going  down,  his  servants  met  him  ;  and  they  brought 
word,  saying,  that  his  son  lived.  He  asked  there- 
fore  of  them  the  hour  wherein  he  grew  better.  And 
they  said  to  him:  yesterday  at  the  seventh  hour  the 
fever  left  him.  The  father  therefore  knew  that 
it  was  at  the  same  hour  that  Jesus  said  to  him,  Thy 
son  livtth  ;  and  himself  believed,  and  his  whole 
house.  CREDO. 

OFFER T.  Ps.  136.  On  the  rivers  of  Babylon 
we  sat  and  wept,  whilst  we  remembered  thee,  O 
Sion  ! 

SECRET.  May  these  mysteries,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  procure  us  a  heavenly  remedy,  and 
cleanse  away  the  vices  of  our  hearts.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  118.  —  Remember,  O  Lord,  what 
thou  saidst  to  thy  servant,  and  by  which  thou 
gavest  me  hopes:  this  hatli  comforted  me  in  my  dis- 
tress. 

P.  COMM.    Ut  sacris. — That  we  may  be  worthy 
PP3 


450  XXI.  SUNDAY   AFTER    PENTECOST* 

of  thy  sacred  gifts,  O  Lord:  grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
we  may  always  obey  thy  commandments.  Thro'. 

XXI.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROIT.     Esther  xiu. 

ALL  things,  O  Lord,  TN  wluntate  tua>  Do. 
are  at  thy  disposal ;  •*  mine,  universa  sunt  po* 
and  no  one  can  resist  thy  sita :  et  non  est  qui  possit 
will:  for  thou  madest  resistere  voluntati  tucci 
all  things :  heaven  and  tu  enimfecisti  omnia,  c#« 
earth,  and  whatever  is  lum  et  terrain,  et  universa, 
contained  within  the  yua  call  ambitu  continen* 
compass  of  the  heavens:  tur  :  Dominus  universo* 
thou  art  the  Lord  of  all.  rum  tu  es. 
Ps.  Blessed  are  the  unde-  Ps.  Beati  immaculati  in 
filed  in  the  way:  who  t>iati  qui  ambulant  in  lege 
walk  in  the  law  of  the  Domini. 
Lord.  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLEC  I'.  Familiam.— Preserve  thy  family,  O 
Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  by  thy  constant  mercy; 
that,  under  thy  protection,  it  ma}1  be  freed  from  all 
adversity ;  and,  by  the  practice  of  good  works,  con. 
tinue  devoted  to  thy  name.  Thro1. 

EPISTLE.  Ephes*  vi.  10.  17.—  Brethren:  Be  ye 
strengthened  in  the  Lord,  and  in  the  might  of  his 
power.  Put  on  the  armour  of  God,  that  you  may 
be  able  to  stand  against  the  deceits  of  the  devil.  For 
0ur  wrestling  is  not  against  flesh  and  blood ;  but 
against  principalities  and  powers,  against  the  rulers 
of  the  world  of  this  darkness,  against  the  spirit  of 
wickedness  in  the  high  places.  Therefore  take  unto 
you  the  armour  of  God,  that  you  may  be  able  to 
resist  in  the  evil  day,  and  to  stand  in  all  things  per- 
fect. Stand  therefore  having  your  loins  girt  about 
with  truth,  and  having  on  the  breast-plate  of  justice, 
and  your  feet  shod  with  the  preparation  of  the 


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gospel  of  peace:  in  all  things  taking  the  shield  of 
faith,  wherewith  you  may  be  able  to  extinguish  all 
the  fiery  darts  of  the  most  wicked  one.  And  take 
unto  you  the  helmet  of  salvation,  and  the  sword  of 
the  spirit,  which  is  the  word  of  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxxix.— Thou,  O  Lord,  hast  been 
our  refuge  throughout  all  generations.  V.  Before 
the  mountains  were  made,  or  the  earth,  or  world 
were  formed:  thou  art  God  for  ever  and  ever.  Allel. 

V.  When  Israel  went  V.  In  exitu  Israel  de 
out  of  Egypt,  the  house  Egyp  °>  downs  Jacob  de 
of  Jacob  from  a  harba-  populo  barbaro.  Alleluia* 
rous  people.  Alleluia. 

(£>00p0U  Matt,  xviii.  2>  35.  —  At  that  time  ; 
Jesus  spoke  to  his  disciples  this  parable ;  The  king, 
dom  of  heaven  is  likened  to  a  king  who  would  take 
an  account  of  his  servants.  And  when  he  had  begun 
to  take  the  account,  one  was  brought  to  him  that 
owed  him  ten  thousand  talents.  And  as  he  had  not 
wherewith  to  pay  it,  his  lord  commanded  that  he 
should  be  sold,  and  his  wife  and  children,  and  all 
that  he  had,  and  payment  to  he  made.  But  that 
servant  falling  down,  besought  him,  saying:  Have 
patience  with  me,  and  1  will  pay  thee  all.  And 
the  lord  of  that  servant  being  moved  with  pity,  let 
him  go  and  forgave  him  the  debt.  But  when  that 
servant  was  gone  out,  he  found  one  of  his  fellow- 
servants  that  owed  him  an  hundred  pence;  and  lay- 
ing  hold  of  him,  he  throttled  him",  saying;  Pay  what 
thou  owest.  And  his  fellow-servant  falling  down, 
besought  him,  saying:  Have  patience  with  me,  and 
I  will  pay  thee  all.  And  he  would  not ;  but  went 
and  cast  him  into  prison,  til!  he  paid  the  debt.  Now 
his  fellow  servants  seeing  what  was  done,  were  very 
much  grieved,  and  they  came  and  told  their  lord 
all  that  was  done.  Then  his  lord  called  him,  and 
said  to  him ;  Thou  wicked  servant,  1  forgave  thee  all 


4<2  XXII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

the  debt,  because  thou  besoughtest  me  :  shouldst 
not  thou  then  have  had  compassion  also  on  thy 
fellow-servant,  even  as  I  had«compassion  on  thee  ?  • 
And  his  lord*  being  angry  delivered  him  to  the 
torturers,  until  he  paid  all  the  debt.  So  also  shall 
my  heavenly  Father  do  to  you,  if  you  forgive  not 
every  one  his  brother  from  your  hearts.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Job  i.— There  was  in  the  land  of  Hus 
a  man  called  Job  ;  a  simgle  and  upright  man,  fearing 
God :  and  Satan  asked  to  tempt  him  5  aiul  power 
was  given  him  by  the  Lord  over  his  possessions,  and 
over  his  flesh  :  and  he  destroyed  ail  his  substance, 
and  his  sons ,  and  he  wounded  his  flesh  with  a 
grievous  ulcer. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  these 
offerings,  by  which  thou  art  pleased  to  be  appeased, 
and  restore  us  to  salvation  by  thy  powerful  good* 
ness.  Thro'. 

COMIM.  Ps.  cxviii.— -My  soul  hath  looked  to  be 
saved  by  thee,  and  hath  relied  on  thy  word  :  when 
wilt  thou  judge  those  who  persecute  me?  The 
\vicked  ones  have  long  persecuted  me,  help  me,  O 
Lord  my  God. 

P.  COMM.  Iwmortalitatis.— Having  received  the 
food  of  immortality,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  what  we  have  taken  with  our  mouths,  we  may 
receive  with  pure  souls.  Thro'. 

XXIL  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
INTROIT.     Ps.  cxxix. 

SKouldst  thou  observe  Ctl  iniguitates  abservaw. 

iniquities,    O  Lord  !  M   ris,  Domino!  Domine, 

Lord,  who  shall  stand  it?  gui&     smtinebit  ?      Quia 

For  with  thee  there  is  pro-  a  pud    t-e  propitiatio    cst> 

pitiation,  O  God  of  Is-  Dens  Israel. 

rael.  PA'«  From  the  deep  Ps.  De  profundis  eld" 


XXII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.  453 

I  cried  to  thee,  O  Lord,     mavi  ad  te,  Doming  Do. 
Lord  hear  my  voice.     V.     mine  exaudi  vocem  meant. 
Glory.  >'•  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dem  refugiuin.—*)  God,  our  re- 
fuge ami  strength,  fountain  of  all  goodness,  merci- 
fully give  ear  to  the  fervent  prayers  of  thy  church, 
and  grant,  that  what  we  ask  with  faith,  we  may 
effectually  obtain.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Philip. i.  6.  IT.—  Brethren;  We 
are  confident  of  this  very  thing,  that  he,  who  hath, 
begun  a  good  work  in  you,  will  perfect  it  unto  the 
day  of  Christ  Jesus.  As  it  is  meet  tor  me  to  think 
this  for  you  all:  for  that  I  have  you  in  my  heart : 
and  that  in  my  bands,  and  in  the  defence  and 
confirmation  of  the  gospel,  you  all  are  partakers  ot 
my  joy.  l<or  God  is  my  witness,  how  1  long  after 
you  all  in  the  bowels  of  Jesus  Christ.  And  this  I 
pray,  that  \  our  chanty  may  more  and  more  abound 
in  knowledge,  and  in  all  understanding;  that  you 
may  approve  the  better  things,  that  you  maybe, 
sincere  and  without  offence  unto  the  day  of  Christ. 
Tilled  with  the  fruit  of  justice,  through  Jesus  Christ, 
unto  the  glory  and  praise  of  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxii.— Behold  how  good  and 
pleasant  it  is  for  brethren  to  live  together  in  peace. 
F.  It  is  like  the  sweet  perfume,  which,  from  the 
head,  came  down  all  over  the  beard  of  Aaron.  Al- 
leluia, Alleluia. 

V.  Let  those  who  fear  V.  Qui  timent  Doun~ 
the  Lord,  put  their  trust  num  spcrent  ineo:  adju. 
in  him  :  he  is  their  help  tor  ct  protector  cvrum  est. 
and  protector.  Alleluia.  Alleluia. 

OD00peU  Matt.  xxii.  15.  Zi.—At  that  time: 
The  Pharisees  going,  consulted  among  themselves 
how  to  ensnare  Jesus  in  his  speech.  And  they  sent 
to  him  their  disciples,  with  the  Herodians,  saying: 
Master,  we  know  that  thou  art  a  true  speaker,  ami 


454        XXIH.   SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

teachest  the  way  of  God  in  truth,  neither  carest  thou 
for  any  man  ;  for  thou  dost  not  regard  the  person  of 
men.  Tell  us  therefore  what  dost  thou  think  :  Is  it 
lawful  to  give  tribute  to  Cgesar,  or  not  ?  But  Jesus 
knowing  their  wickedness,  said:  Why  do  you 
tempt  me,  ye  hypocrites  ?  Shew  me  the  coin  or 
the  tribute.  And  they  offered  him  a  penny.  But 
Jesus  saith  to  them  :  Whose  image  and  superscrip- 
tion is  this?  They  say  to  him  Caesar's.  Then  he 
saith  to  them  :  Render  therefore  to  Caesar  the  things 
that  are  Csesai-'s ;  and  to  God,  the  things  that  are 
God's.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Esther  xiv.-.-Remember  me,  O  Lord, 
who  art  above  all  power ;  and  put  a  proper  speech 
in  my  mouth,  that  my  words  may  be  pleasing  when 
I  come  before  the  prince. 

SECRET,  Grant,  O  merciful  God,  that  this  sa- 
crifice of  salvation  may  constantly  both  free  us  from 
our  sins,  and  protect  us  from  all  adversity.  Thro'. 

COMM.  P*.  xv.  —  I  cried  out,  because  thou 
liearedst  me,  O  God ;  bend  now  thine  ear,  and  hear 
my  words. 

P.  COMM.  Sumpsimus. ...  Having  received,  O 
Lord,  the  sacred  mysteries,  we  humbly  beseech  thee, 
that  what  thou  hast  ordered  us  to  do  in  remembrance 
of  thee,  may  be  a  help  to  our  weakness.  Thro'. 

XXIII.  SUNDAY  after  PENTECOST. 
$^>  Should  there  be  but  23  Sundays  after  Pentecost, 
the  Mass  of  the  24th  is  said  to  day,  and  this  on  the 
preceding  Saturday,  (if  it  be  neither  a  double  or 
semi-double)  in  which  case,  it  is  said  on  some  va- 
cant day  before  it. 

INTROIT.  Jer.  xxix. 

f-p HE  Lord  saith:  I  en-      r\ICITDominus:  Ego 
•*•     tertain  thoughts  of    *~*    cogito    cogitations 


XXIII.    SUNDAY  AFTER   PENTECOST.         455 

peace,  not  of  affliction:     pacis,  ef  non  afllictiimis: 
you  shall  call  on  me,  and     invocabitis  me,   et  ego  ex- 
I    will    hear   you:     and     audlnm  vos:   tt  reducaiu 
bring  back  your  captive     captivitatem    vcstram    dc 
people   from  all  places,     citnctis  loci*. 
Pa.  Thou,  O  Lord,  hast      Ps.  Benedixisti  Dominc, 
blessed   thy  land :    thou     terram    tuum  :     avertisli 
hast   brought    back    the     captimtatem  Jacob. 
captive  children  of  Jacob.         V.  Gloria. 

V.  Glory. 

COLLECT  Absolve.—  Pardon,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  the  sins  of  thy  people:  that  we  may  be 
delivered  by  thy  goodness  from  the  guilt  we  have 
contracted  by  our  own  weakness.  Thro\ 

EPISTLE.  Philip*  Hi.  17.  21.  iv.  i.  3. —  Brethren: 
Be  followers  of  me,  and  observe  them  who  walk  so 
as  you  have  our  model.  For  many  walk,  of  whom 
I  have  told  you  often  (and  now  tell  you  weeping) 
that  they  are  enemies  of  the  cross  of  Christ;  whose 
end  is  destruction,  whose  God  is  their  belly,  and 
whose  glory  is  their  shame:  who  mind  earthly 
things,  But  our  conversation  is  in  heaven  ;  from 
whence  also  we  look  for  the  Saviour,  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  who  will  reform  the  body  of  our  low- 
ness,  made  like  to  the  body  of  his  glory,  according 
to  the  operation  whereby  also  he  is  able  to  subdue 
all  things  unto  himself.  (Chap,  iv.)  Therefore,  my 
dearly  beloved  breihren,  and  most  desired,  my  joy, 
and  my  crown:  so  stand  fast  in  the  Lord,  my  dearly 
beloved.  1  beg  of  Evodia,  and  I  beseech  Syntyche, 
to  be  of  one  mind  in  the  Lord.  And  I  entreat  thee 
also  my  sincere  companion,  help  those  women  that 
have  laboured  with  me  in  the  gospel,  with  Clement 
and  the  rest  of  my  fellow  labourers,  whose  names 
are  in  the  book  of  life. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliii.— Thou  hast  delivered  us,  O 
Lord,  from  those  who  afflicted  us:  and  thou  hast 
put  to  shame  those  who  hated  us.  V.  In  thee,  O  God, 


45^         XXIII.  SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST. 

will  we  glory  all  the  day:  and  praise  thy  name  fo? 
ever.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

K  From  the  deep  I  V.  Ps.  cxxix.  De  pro* 
cried  unto  thee,  O  Lord  :  fundis  clamavi  ad  te9  Do- 
Lord,  hear  my  prayer,  minez  Domine9  exaudi 
Alleluia.  vocem  meam.  Alleluia. 

(BOgpel.  Matt.  ix.  18.  26.  —  At  that  time*. 
As  Jesus  was  speaking  to  the  multitude:  Behold  a 
certain  ruler  came  up,  and  adored  him,  saying  ; 
Lord,  my  daughter  is  even  now  dead  ;  but  come 
lay  thy  hand  upon  her,  and  she  shall  live.  And  Je- 
sus rising  up  followed  him,  with  his  disciples.  And 
behold  a  woman  who  was  troubled  with  an  issue  of 
blood  twelve  years,  came  behind  him,  and  touched 
the  hem  of  his  garment  For  she  said  within  her- 
self: If  I  shall  touch  only  his  garment,  I  shall  be 
healed.  But  Jesus  turning  and  seeing  her,  said:  Be 
of  good  heart,  daughter/ thy  faith  hath  made  thee 
whole.  And  the  woman  was  made  whole  from 
that  hour.  And  when  Jesus  was  come  into  the 
house  of  the  ruler,  and  saw  the  minstrels  and  the 
multitude  making  a  rout,  he  said:  Give  place  :  for 
the  girl  is  not  dead,  butsleepeth.  And  they  laugh, 
ed  him  to  scorn-.  And  when  the  multitude  was  put 
forth,  he  went  in  and  took  her  by  the  hand.  And 
the  maid  arose.  And  the  fame  hereof  went  abroad 
into  all  that  country.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxix.  —  From  the  deep  have  I 
cried  out  to  thee,  O  Lord  ;  Lord,  hear  my  prayer ; 
from  the  deep  have  I  cried  out  to  thee,  O  Lord. 

SECRET/  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  this  sacrifice 
of  praise,  as  a  repeated  token  of  our  homage  ;  that 
thou  mayest  accomplish  in  us  what  thou  hast  already 
granted  beyond  our  deserts.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Mark  xi. — Verily  I  say  to  you,  what, 
ever  you  ask  in  prayer,  believe  that  you  shall  receive 
it,  and  it  shall  be  granted  you. 

P.  COMM,    Qu&umus*  —  We  beseech  thee,  O 


SUNDAY  AFTER  PENTECOST.          457 

Almighty  God,  that  thon  wouldst  not  leave  exposed 
to  the  dangers  of  this  life,  those  whom  thou  hast  joy- 
fully made  partakers  of  this  divine  food.     Thro'. 
(^  As  there  cannot  be  less  than  23,  nor  more  than  28 
Sundays  after  Pentecost,  it  is  to  be  observed,  that 
the  Mass  of  the  24th  is  atwai/s  said  on  that  Sunday 
which  immediately  precedes  Advent.       When  there- 
fore it  happens   that   there   are    am/    intervening 
Sundays  between  the  23d  and  the  last,  the  \n- 
troit,  Gradual,   Offertory,  and  Communion,  are 
taken  from  the  2^1,  and  the  rest  of  the  Masgjfopi 
the  Sundays  which  were  omitted  after  Epiphany  : 
for  instance,  if  but  one  Sunday,  the  Mass  is  of  the 
6th  after  Epiphany  ;  if  too,  of  the  5th  and  6th;  if 
three,  of  the  4th,  <;th,  and  6th;   and  if  four,  of 
the  3d,  4th,  5th,  and  6th, 

XXIV.  Or  last  SUNDAY<?/J?tT  PENTECOST. 
All  (is  on  the  twenty- third  Sunday,  except 

COLLECT.  Exc.it a.— Stir  up,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  the  hearts  of  the  faithful ;  that,  becoming 
more  zealous  in  the  performance  of  good  works, 
they  may  receive  from  thy  goodness  more  effectual 
remedies  (or  their  disorders.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Colas  i,  9.  14..  — Brethren:  We  cease 
not  to  pray  for  yon,  and  to  beg  that  you  may 
be  filled  with  the  knowledge  of  his  will,  in  all  wis- 
dom, and  spiritual  understanding  :  that  you  may 
walk  worthy  of  God,  in  all  things  pleasing:  being 
fruitful  in  every  good  work,  and  increasing  in  the 
knowledge  of  God:  strengthened  with  all  might, 
according  to  the  power  of  his  glory,  in  all  patience 
and  long- suffer  ing  with  joy.  Giving  thanks  to  God 
the  Father,  who  'hath  made  us  worthy  to  be  par- 
takers of  the  lot  of  the  saints  in  light :  who  hath 
delivered  us  from  the  power  of  darkness,  and  hath 
translated  us  into  the  kingdom  of  the  Son  of  his  love. 
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4$8         XXIV.    SUNDArANTER  PENTECOST. 

Jn  whom  we  have  redemption  through  his  blood, 
the  remission  of  sins. 


Matt.  xxiv.   15.  35.—  At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  hit  disciples  :  When  you  shall   see  the 
abomination  of  desolation,  which  was  spoken  of  by 
Daniel  the  prophet,  standing  in  the  holy  place:  he 
thatreadeth,  let  him  understand.     Then  they  that 
are  in  Judea,  let  them  flee  to  the  mountains;  and 
he  that  is  on  the  house-  top  let  him  not  come  down 
to  take  any  thing  out  of  his  house  ;  and  he  that  is  in 
the  field,  let  him  not  go  back  to  take  his  coat.     And 
wo  to  them  that  are  with  child,  and  give  suck  in 
those  days.     But  pray  that  your  flight  be  not  in 
•  the  winter,  or  on  the  Sabbath.     For  there  shall  be 
then  great  tribulation,  such  as  hath  not  been  from 
the  beginning  of  the  world  until  now,  neither  shall 
be.     And  unless  those  days  had  been  shortened,  no 
flesh  could  be  saved  :    but  for  the  sake  of  the  elect, 
those  days  shall  be  shortened.    Then  if  any  man 
shall  say  to  you  :    Lo  here  is  Christ,  or  there,  do 
not  believe  him.     For  there  shall  arise  false  Christs, 
and  false  prophets,  and  shall  shew  great  signs  and 
wonders,  insomuch  as  to  deceive  (if  possible)  even 
the  elect.      Behold  I  have  told  it  you  before  hand. 
If  therefore  they   shall  say  to  you;   Behold  he  is 
in  the  desart;  go  ye  not  out  :   Behold  he  is  in  the 
closets  ;   believe  it  not.     For  as  the  lightning  cometh 
out  of  the  east,  and  appeareth  even  unto  the  west;  so 
shall  also  tlu  coming  of  the  Son  of  Man  be.  Where. 
soever  the  body  shall  be,   there  shall  the  eagles  also 
be  gathered  together.     And  immediately  after  the 
tribulation  of  those  days,  the  sun  shall  be  darkened, 
and  the  moon  shall  not  give  her  light,  and  the  stars 
shall  fall  from  heaven,  and  the  powers  of  the  heavens 
shall  be  moved:  and  there  shall  appear  the  sign  of 
the  Son  of  Man  in  heaven  ;    and  then  shall  all  tribes 
of  the  earth  mourn:  and  they  shall  see  the  Son  of 


VIGIL  OF  AN   APOSTLE.  45f 

Man  coming  in  the  clouds  of  heaven  with  much 
power  and  majesty.  And  he  shall  send  his  angels 
with  a  trumpet,  and  a  great  voice;  and  they  shall 
gather  together  his  elect  from  the  four  winds,  from 
the  farthest  parts  of  the  heavens  to  the  utmost 
bounds  of  them.  And  from  the  fig-tree  learn  a  pa. 
rable:  when  the  branch  thereof  is  now  tender,  and 
the  leaves  now  come  forth,  you  know  the  summer 
is  nigh.  So  you  also,  when  you  shall  see  those 
things  know  ye  that  it  is  nigh  even  at  the  doors. 
Amen,  I  say  to  you,  that  this  generation  shall  not 
pass,  till  these  things  be  done.  Heaven  and  earth 
shall  pass,  but  my  words  shall  not  pass.  CREDO. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  the 
prayers  and  offerings  of  thy  people;  turn  our  hearts 
tothee;  that  being  freed  from  earthly  concupis- 
cence, we  may  desire  heavenly  pleasures.  Thro*. 

P.  CO  MM.  Concede*.— Giant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that  whatever  vice  our  souls  are  subject  to, 
may  be  cured  by  the  virtue  of  the  sacrament  we  have 
received.  Thro'. 

COMMON  OF  SJIINTS* 

SI  NCE  the  Church  of  Christ,  under  theimmediate  direo 
tionof  the  Holy  Ghost,  has  instituted  festivals  in  honour 
of  the  Apostles,  Martyrs,  Confessors,  &c.  &c.  who,  either 
by  their  preaching — their  miracles — the  shedding  of  their 
blood,  or  the  purity  of  their  lives,  have  borne  ample  tes- 
timony to  the  truth  of  our  holy  religion,  let  us  regard 
them  as  our  Ancestors,  from  whom  the  precious  inheritance 
oj  fatl  has  descended  to  us  :  let  us  thank  God  on  their 
several  anniversaries,  for  having  made  us  members  of  his 
enet  hol)'t  catholic  and  apostolic  Church:  and  whilst  we  submit 
our  reason  and  understanding  to  the  sublime  mysteries  the 
teaches,  let  us  bend  our  stubborn  wills  to  the  practice  of 
the  heavenly  precepts  she  iuculcates. 

MASS  on  the  VIGIL  of  an  APOSTLE. 
INTR01T.    J»i.  li.— I  am  like  a  fruitful  olive  in 

QC,2 


4&0  VIGIL  OF    AN  APOSTLE.1 

the  house  of  the  Lord  :  I  have  placed  my  hopes  in. 
the  mercy  of  my  God :  1  will  look  for  thy  name 
because  it  is  good  in  the  sight  of  thy  saints. 

Ps.  Why  tiost  thou  glory  in  mischief,  who  art 
powerful  in  wickedness  ?  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.     Daqiusstunus Grant,  we  beseech 

thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  venerable  solemnity 
of  thy  blessed  Apostle  N.  which  we  are  now  prepar- 
ing to  celebrate,  may  increase  our  devotion  and 
advance  our  salvation.  Thro'. 
i  LESSON.  JEcc/e*.  xliv.  <wd  xlv.— The  blessing  of 
the  Lord  is  on  the  head  of  the  righteous  man. 
Therefore  did  the  Lord  give  him  an  inheritance,  and 
assign  him  a  part  among  the  twelve  tribes;  and  he 
found  grace  in  the  sight  of  all  flesh.  And  he  made 
him  great  to  the  terror  of  his  Enemies,  and  by  his 
words  he  tamed  monsters.  He  rendered  him  glori- 
ous in  the  presence  of  kings,  and  gave  him  his  com- 
mandments in  the  sight  of  his  people,  and  shewed 
him  his  glory.  For  his  faith  and  meekness  he  sanc- 
tified him,  and  made  choice  of  him  among  all  iiesh: 
and  publicly  gave  him  his  precepts,  and  the  law  of 
life  and  discipline,  and  highly  exalted  him.  He 
settled  with  him  an  eternal  covenant,  and  encom- 
passed him  with  the  girdle  of  righteousness :  and  the 
Lord  hath  put  on  him  a  crown  of  glory. 

GRAD.  PS.  xxi.  —  The  righteous  man  shall 
flourish  like  the  palm-tree:  he  shall  thrive  like  the 
Cedar  of  Lib™ us  in  the  house  of  the  Lord.  V.  To 
declare  thy  mercies  in  the  morning,  and  the  ful- 
filling of  thy  promise  by  night, 

<15Q0p£U  John  xv.  12,  16.- — At  that  time  : 
Jesus  said  tolas  disciples :  This  is  my  commandment, 
that  you  love  one  another,  as  I  have  loved  you. 
Greater  love  than  this  no  man  hath,  that  a  man  lay 
down  his  life  for  his  friends.  You  are  my  friends, 
jf  you  do  the  things  that  I  command  you.  I  will 
pot  now  call  you  servants  5  for  the  servant  knoweth 


MASS  I.    STATU1T,  &C.  „    46* 

not  what  his  lord  doth.  But  1  have  called  you 
friends:  because  all  things  whatsoever  I  have  heard 
of  my  Father,  I  have  made  known  to  you.  You  have 
not  chosen  me:  but  I  have  chosen  you;  and  have 
appointed  yoa  that  you  should  go,  and  should  bring 
forth  fruit;  and  your  fruit  should  remain;  that 
whatsoever  you  ask.  of  the  Father  in  my  name,  he 
may  give  it  you. 

OFFERTf  Pf>  viii. — Thou  hist  crowned  him 
with  glory  and  honour,  and  hast  placed  him  over 
the  works  of  thy  hands,  O  Lord. 

SECRET.  Whilst  with  respect  for  the  Apost©.. 
lie  dignity,  we  offer  these  sacred  mysteries,  grant, 
we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  (by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  N.  thy  'Apostle,  whose  triumphs  we  are 
preparing  to  celebrate)  that  thy  people  may  ever 
pray  to  thee,  and  obtain  their  desires.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  xx. — Great  is  his  glory  in  being 
saved  by  thee,  O  Lord ;  thou  wilt  crown  him  with 
glory  and  great  honour. 

P.  COMM.  Sancti — Being  appeased,  O  Lord, 
by  the  prayers  of  thy  holy  Apostle  N.  grant  us  for* 
giveness,  and  a  remedy  against  all  future  relapses 
Thro'. 

MASS  I.  Statuit,  of  a  MARTYR  and  BP. 
INTROIT.     Exit's,  xiv. 

THE  Lord  settled  with  ^TATUITeiDominus 

him   a  covenant  of  Otestamentum  pad*,  et 

peace,   and  made  him  a  principem      fecit    eum  ; 

Chief,     that    he     might  ut  sit  illi  Sacerdotii  dig. 

have  the  honour  of  Priest-  nitas  in  seternum.      A-. 

hood  for  ever.      Ps.   O  cxxxi.  Memento   Domi- 

Lord,  remember  David,  ne,  David,  et  omnis  mail* 

and  all  his  meekness.  suetudinis  eius, 
F.  Glory,  V.  Glo:-. 

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462  MASS  I.  STATUIT, 

COLLECT.  Injirmiiatem.  —  Have  regard,  O 
Almighty  God,  to  our  weakness  j  and,  as  we  sink 
under  the  weight  of  our  doings,  let  (he  glorious 
intercession  of  %blessed  N.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop, 
be  a  protection  to  us*  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  James  \.  12.  i  8.  ---  Dearly  beloved  i 
Blessed  is  the  man  that  endureth  temptation  ;  for 
when  he  hath  been  proved,  he  shall  receive  the 
crown  of  life,  which  God  hath  promised  to  them 
that  love  him.  Let  no  man,  when  he  is  tempted, 
say  that  he  is  tempted  of  God.  For  God  is  not  a 
tempter  of  evils,  and  he  tempteth  no  man.  But 
every  man  is  tempted  by  his  own  concupiscence, 
being  drawn  away  and  allured-  Then  when  concu- 
piscence hath  conceived,  it  bringeth  forth  sin.  But 
sin,  when  it  is  completed,  begetteth  death,  Do  not 
err  therefore,  my  dearest  brethren  Every  best  gift, 
and  every  perfect  gift,  is  from  above,  coming  down 
from  the  Father  of  lights,  with  whom  there  is  no 
change,  nor  shadow  of  alteration.  For  of  his  own 
will  hath  he  begotten  us  by  the  word  of  truth,  that 
we  might  be  some  beginning  to  his  creatures. 

GRAD.  Ps  /xxxviii.-.-I  have  found  David  my 
servant:  with  my  holy  oil  have  I  anointed  him;  for 
my  hand  shall  help  him  :  and  my  arm  shall  strengthen 
him.  V.  The  enemy  shall  not  prevail  against  him: 
nor  the  son  of  iniquity  hurt  him.  Alleluia,  Alleluia, 
V-  Ps.  cix.  Tu  as  sacerdos  in  attnmtn  secundum 
ordinem  Melchixedech.  AUcliuu,  Alleluia.  V*  Thou 
art  a  priest  fcr  ever  according  to  the  order  of 
Melchisedech,  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  andV.  is  said 

TRACT.  Ps.  xx.—l)csidtriw/i  aniuue  ejus9  tribuistl 
ei:  et  voluntate  iabioram  ejus,  nonjraudasti  eum,  $c. 
Thou  hast  given  him  his  soul's  desire  5  and  hast 
not  rejected  the  request  of  his  lips.  V  For  thou 
hast  prevented  him  with  the  blessings  of  sweetness. 
V,  Thou  hast  bet  on  his  head  a  crown  of  jewels. 


OF  A  MARTYR  AND  BISHOP.  463 


Luke  xiv.  26.  33.  —  At  that  time  : 
JLSUS  said  to  his  disciples:  If  any  one  come  to  me, 
and  hate  not  his  father,  and  mother,  and  wife,  and 
children,  and  brethren,  and  sisters,  yea*  and  his  own 
life  also,  he  cannot  be  my  disciple.  And  whosoever 
cloth  not  carry  his  cross  and  come  after  me,  cannot 
be  my  disciple.  For  which  of  you  having  a  mind  to 
build  a  tower,  doth  not  first  sit  down  and  reckon  the 
charges  that  are  necessary,  whether  he  have  where- 
withal to  finish  it:  lest  after  he  hath  laid  the  founda- 
tion, and  is  not  able  to  finish  it,  all  that  see  it  begin 
to  mock  him,  saying:  This  man  began  to  build, 
and  was  not  able  to  finish.  Or  what  king  about  to 
go  and  make  war  against  another  king,  doth  not 
sit  down  and  think  whether  he  be  able  with  ten 
thousand,  to  meet  him  that  with  twenty  thousand 
cometh  out  against  him.  Or  else  whilst  the  other  is 
yet  a-  far  off,  sending  an  embassy,  he  desireth  con. 
ditions  of  peace.  So  likewise  every  one  of  you  that 
doth  not  renounce  all  that  he  possesseth,  cannot  be 
my  disciple. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxxvii'u—  -My  truth  and  my  mercy 
are  with  him  :  and  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be 
exalted. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  the 
offerings  dedicated  to  thee  by  the  merits  of  blessed 
N.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop,  and  grant  they  may  be  a 
continual  support  to  us.  Thro'. 

COMM.  /J6.  Ixxxviii...  -Once  I  have  sworn  by  my 
\\o\yname:  his  posterity  shall  remain  for  ever,  and 
liisseat  is  like  the  sun  in  my  sight,  and  as  the  moon 
perfect  for  ever,  and  a  faithful  witness  in  heaven. 

P.  COMM.  Rcfrrti.  —  Being  fed  with  the  partici- 
pation of  thy  sacred  gilts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord 
our  God,  that  we  rm,y  frtl  the  «  ffi<  acy  thereof  by 
the  intercession  of  bU-sst  d  N  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop, 
whose  least  we  ceU:br*u;.  Thro\ 


(    464     ) 

MASS  II.  Sncerdotes  Dei,  of  the  same. 
INTROIT.  Dan.  iii. 

OYe  priests  %of  God,  QAcerdotes  Dei  bene* 
bless  the  Lord  :  O  O  dicite  Dominum  : 
ye  saints  and  humble  of  sancti  et  liumiles  corde 
heart,  praise  God.  Ps.  laudate  Deum.  Ps.  Be* 
O  all  ye  works  of  the  nediciteomniaopera Do- 
Lord,  bless  the  Lord,  mini  Domino,  laudate  et 
praise  him,  and  extol  snperexahate  eum  in  sac- 
him  for  ever.  V.  Glory,  cula.  /'.Gloria. 

COLLECT-  Deus,  qai  nos.—Q  God,  who,  by 
the  yearly  solemnity  of  blessed  N  thy  Martyr  and 
Bishop,  rejoicest  the  hearts  of  thy  faithful  j  merci- 
fully grant  that  we  who  celebrate  his  martyrdom, 
may  enjoy  his  protection.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.    2  Cor.  i.  3.  7 Brethren :    Blessed 

be  the  God  and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the 
Father  of  mercies,  and  the  God  of  all  comfort,  who 
comforteth  us  in  all  our  tribulation;  that  we  may 
also  be  able  to  comfort  them  who  are  in  distress,  by 
the  exhortation  wherewith  we  also  are  exhorted  by 
God.  .For  as  the  sufferings  of  Christ  abound  in  us, 
so  also  by  Christ  doth  our  comfort  abound.  Now 
whether  we  be  in  tribulation,  it  i*  for  your  exhorta- 
tion and  salvation:  or  whether  we  be  comforted,  it 
is  for  your  consolation:  or  whether  we  be  ex. 
horted,  it  is  for  your  exhortation  and  salvation, 
which  work^th  the  enduring  i;fthe  same  sufferings 
which  we  also  suffer.  That  our  hopes  for  you  may 
be  steadfast:  knowing  that  as  yon  are  partakers  of 
the  sufferings,  so  shall  you  be  also  of  the  consola- 
tion :  in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord. 

GRAD.  Ps.  viii.— Thou  hast  crowned  him  with 
glory  and  honour.  V.  And  set  him  over  the  works 
of  thy  hands,  O  Lord.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Hia 
tut  sai\'t'dos9  qium  coronavit  Dv/ninus.  Allcluiu. 


OF  A  MARTYR  AND  BISHOP  465 

V.  This  is  the  priest  whom  the  Lord  hath  crowned. 
Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT.  Ps.cxi. — Beatttsvir.gui  timct  Dominum; 
in  mandate  (jus  cupit  nimis,  $c.— -Blessed  is  the  man 
that  teareth  the  Lord,  and  delighteth  in  his  com- 
mandments. V.  His  seed  shall  be  mighty  upon 
earth;  the  generation  of  the  just  shall  be  blessed. 
V.  Glory  and  wealth  shall  be  in  his  house;  and  his 
justice  remaineth  for  ever  and  ever. 

(15D0pCU  M(tit.\v\.  24.  27.—  At  that  time  i 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  If  any  man  will  come 
after  me,  let  him  deny  himself,  and  take  iip  his 
cross  and  follow  me.  For  he  that  will  save  his  life, 
shall  lose  it :  and  he  that  shall  lose  his  life  for  my 
sake,  shall  find  it.  For  what  doth  it  profit  a  man, 
if  he  gain  the  whole  world,  and  suffer  the  loss  of 
his  soul?  Or  what  exchange  shall  a  man  give  for 
his  soul  ?  For  the  Son  of  Man  shall  come  in  the 
glory  of  the  Father  with  his  angels  :  and  then  will 
he  render  to  every  man  according  to  his  works. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxxviii. — 1  have  found  David,  my 
servant :  with  my  holy  oil  have  I  anointed  him. 
For  my  hand  shall  help  him,  and  my  arm  shall 
strengthen  him. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  con* 
secrated  to  thee  :  and,  being  appeased  thereby,  mer- 
cifully look  upon  us,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
N.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xx.«. Thou,  O  Lord,  hast  set  upon 
his  head  a  crown  of  precious  stones. 

P.  COMM.  E(tc  nos.— May  this  communion,  O 
Lord,  cleanse  us  from  sin,  and,  by  the  intercession 
of  blessed  N.  thy  M.  and  Bishop,  make  us  effectual- 
Ty  partakers  of  this  heavenly  remedy. 


(     466     ) 

MASS  III.  In  virtute,  of  a  MARTYR  not  a 
BISHOP. 

INTROIT.     Ps.  xx. 

•"THE  just  man,  O  IN  virtute  tua,  Do- 
*•  Lord,  shall  rejoice  JL  mine,  laetabitur  jus- 
in  thy  might:  and  be  tus:  et  super  salutare 
transported  with  joy,  tuum  exultabit  vehemen- 
that  thou  hast  saved  him:  ter:  desiderium  animae 
thou  didst  grant  him  his  ejus  tribuisti  ei. 
soul's  desire.  Ps.  For  Ps.  Quoniam  prseve- 
thon  hast  prevented  him  nisti  eum  in  benedictioni- 
in  the  blessings  of  thy  bus  dulcedinis:  posuisti 
sweetness:  thou  hast  set  in  capite  ejus  coronam 
on  his  head  a  crown  of  de  lapide  pretioso. 
precious  stones.  F.Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Prasta — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  celebrate  the  festi- 
val of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr,  may,  by  his  interces- 
sion, be  strengthened  in  the  love  of  thy  name. 

LESSON.  Wisd.  x.  10.  14.— The  Lord  led  the 
just  man  through  the  right  ways,  and  shewed  him 
the  kingdom  of  God,  and  gave  him  the  knowledge 
of  the  holy  things,  made  him  honourable  in  his 
labours,  and  accomplished  his  labours.  In  the  de* 
ceit  of  them  that  over-reached  him,  she  stood  by 
him,  and  made  him  honourable.  She  kept  him 
safe  from  his  enemies,  and  she  defended  him  from 
seducers,  and  gave  him  a  strong  conflict,  that  he 
might  overcome,  and  know  that  wisdom  is  mightier 
than  all.  She  forsook  not  the  just  when  he  was  sold, 
but  delivered  him  from  sinners:  she  went  down 
with  him  into  the  pit,  and  in  bands  she  left  him  not, 
till  she  brought  him  the  sceptre  of  the  kingdom,  and 
power  against  those  that  oppressed  him:  and  shewed 
them  to  be  liars,  that  had  accused  him,  and  gave 
him  eternal  glory. 


OF  A  MABTYR   NOT  A  BISHOP.  467 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxi..- Blessed  is  the  man  that  fears 
the  Lord:  who  takes  pleasure  in  his  commandments. 
V.  His  children  shall  be  powerful  upon  earth:  the 
generation  of  the  just  shall  be  blessed.  Alleluia, 
Allel.  V.  Posui&ti  Domine  in  cvpite  ejus  coronam  dc 
lapide  pretMso.  Alleluia.  V.  Thou  hast  placed  on 
his  head,  O  Lord,  a  crown  of  jewels.  Alleluia. 
After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  i*  said 
TRACT.  Desiderium,  p.  462. 

<I50£pCU  Matt.  x.  ?4«  42-— At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples  :  Do  not  think  that  I  came 
to  send  peace  upon  earth  :  I  came  not  to  send  peace, 
but  the  sword.  For  I  came  to  set  a  man  at  variance 
against  his  father,  and  the  daughter  against  her  mo- 
ther, and  the  daughter-in-law  against  her  mother-in- 
law.  And  a  man's  enemies  shall  be  they  of  his 
own  household.  He  that  loveth  father  or  mother 
more  than  me,  is  not  worthy  of  me:  and  he  that 
Joveth  son  or  daughter  more  than  me,  is  not  worthy 
of  me.  And  he  that  taketh  not  up  his  cross,  and 
followeth  me,  is  not  worthy  of  me.  He  that  findeth 
his  life,  shall  lose  it:  and  he  that  shall  lose  his  life 
for  me,  shall  find  it.  He  that  receiveth  you,  re- 
ceiveth  me  :  and  he  that  receiveth  me,  receiveth  him 
that  sent  me.  He  that  receiveth  a  prophet  in  the 
name  of  a  prophet,  shall  receive  the  reward  of  a 
prophet;  and  he  that  receiveth  a  just  man  in  the 
name  of  a  just  man,,  shall  receive  the  reward  of  a 
just  man.  And  whosoever  shall  give  to  drink  to  one 
of  these  little  ones  a  cup  of  cold  water  only  in  the 
name  of  a  disciple,  amen,  I  say  to  you,  he  shall 
not  lose  his  reward. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  viii.— Thou  hast  crowned  him, 
O  Lord,  with  glory  and  honour,  and  placed  him 
over  the  works  of  thy  hands. 

SECRET.  Recede,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
our  offerings  and  prayers:  purify  us  by  these  hea- 
venly mysteries,  and  mercifully  hear  us.  Thro'. 


468  MASS  iv-.  L.&TA.EITUR, 

COMM.  Matt,  xiv Let  him  that  is  willing  t<* 

come  after  me,  deny  himself,  take  up  his  cross,  and 
follow  me. 

P.  COM\L%  Da  qutfsumus* — Grant,  We  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  as  we  rejoice  on  the 
feasts  of  thy  saints  in  this  life,  so  we  may  enjoy  their 
sight  for  ever  in  that  winch  is  to  come.  Thro*. 

MASS  IV.  Lsetabitur,  of  the  same* 
INTROIT.     Pa.  Ixiii. 

rPHE   just    man    shall  /Stabitur  Justus    in 

•*•    rejoice  and  hope  in     JLJ  Domino,  et  spera* 
the  Lord:    and  all  the     bit  in  eo:  et  laudabun- 
righteous  in  heart,   shall     tur  omnes  recti  corde. 
have  praise.      Ps.  Hear,         Pi'.  Exaudi,  Deus,  ora« 
O    God,     my    petition,     tionem  meam,  cum  de- 
when  I  pray:  deliver  my     precor:  a  timore  inimici 
soul  from  the  fear  of  the    eripeanimam  meam. 
enemy.     V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Prasta.— -Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  by  tiie  intercession  of  blessed 
N«  thy  Martyr,  we  may  be  delivered  from  all 
temporal  adversities,  and  our  hearts  be  cleansed 
from  all  evil  thoughts.  Thro*. 

KPISTLE.  2  Tim*\i.  8.  10.  iii.  10.  1-2.— Dearly 
beloved:  Be  mindful  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is 
risen  again  from  the  dead,  of  the  seed  of  Davi;l,  ac- 
cording to  the  gospel.  Wherein  I  labour  even  unto 
bands,  as  an  evil  doer-  but  the  word  of  God  is 
not  bound.  Therefore  I  endure  all  things  for  the 
.sake  of  the  elect,  that  they  also  may  obtain  the  sal- 
vation, which  is  in  Christ  Jesus,  with  heavenly  glory. 
(Cli*ap.  iii.)  But  thou  hast  fully  made  known  my 
doctrine,  manner  of  life,  purpose,  faith,  long-suffer, 
ings,  love,  patience,  persecutions,  afflictions;  such 
as  came  upon  me  at  Antioch,  at  Iconium,  and  at 
Lystra. :  what  persecutions  1  endured,  and  out  of 


OP  A  MARTYR  NOT  A  BISHOP.  46$ 

them  all  the  Lord  delivered  me.      And  all  that  will 
live  godly  in  Jesus  Christ,  shall  suffer  persecution, 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxvi— When  the  just  man  falleth, 
he  shall  not  be  bruised:  for  the  Lord  supports  him 
with  his  hand.  V.  All  the  day  he  shews  compassion, 
and  lends :  and  his  seed  shall  be  blessed.  Alleluia. 

V.  Qui  scquitur  me,  non  ambulat  in  tenebris  scd 
hubcbit  lumen  vit<e  <cterna>.  Alleluia.  V.  He  that  fol- 
loweth  me,  walketh  not  in  darkness,  but  shall  enjoy 
the  light  of  everlasting  life.  Alleluia. 
After  Septiiag.  instead  of  Alleluia  andV*  is  said 
TRACT,  Beatus,  p.  465. 

CEfoSptU  Mutt.  x.  26.  33 At  that  time- 
Jems  said  to  his  disciples  :  Nothing  is  covered  that 
shall  not  be  revealed,  nor  hid,  that  shall  not  bo 
known.  That  which  I  tell  you  in  the  dark,  speak 
ye  in  the  light ;  and  that  which  you  hear  in  the  ear, 
preach  ye  upon  the  house  tops.  And  fear  ye  not 
them  that  kill  the  body,  and  are  not  able  to  kill  the 
soul ;  but  rather  fear  him  that  can  destroy  both  soul 
and  body  into  hell.  Are  not  two  sparrows  sold  for 
a  farthing:  and  not  one  of  them  shall  fall  to  the 
ground  without  your  Father.  But  the  very  hairs  of 
your  head  are  all  numbered.  Fear  not  therefore : 
better  are  you  than  many  sparrows.  Every  one 
therefore  that  shall  confess  me  before  men,  I  will 
also  confess  him  before  my  Father  who  is  in  heaven. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  x.— Thou  hast  set  on  his  head,  O 
Lord,  a  crown  of  precious  stones :  he  asked  of  thee 
life,  and  thou  didst  grant  him  it.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  May  our  devotion,  O  Lord,  be  ac- 
ceptable in  thy  sij>ht;  and  may  his  intercession  on 
whose  fcsiiviil  we  pay  it,  make  it  available  to  ou-r 
salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Let  him  who  serveth  me,  follow  me; 
and  where  I  am,  there  also  shall  my  servants  be. 

P.  COMM.  JR$fecff.-.-Bfeing  fed  by  the  panicipa* 
R  r 


47®  MASS   V.   PROTBXISTI, 

tion  of  thy  sacred  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord  our 
God,  that  we  may  feel  the  efficacy  thereof,  by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr,  whose  feast 
we  celebrate.*  Thro'. 

MASS  V.  Protexisti,  of  a  MARTYR  in 
PASCHAL  TIME. 

1NTROIT.      Ps.   Ixii. 

T^HOU  hast  protected  TJRotexisti  me,  Deus, 
•*•  me,  O  God,  from  Jt  a  conventu  malig- 
the  assembly  of  the  wick,  nantium,  Alleluia:  a 
ed,  Alleluia:  from  the  multitudine  operantium 
multitude  of  those  who  iniquitatem.  Allel.  Allel. 
work  iniquity.  Alleluia.  Ps.  Exaudi,  Deus,  oca- 
Allel.  Ps.  Hear  me,  O  tionem  meam,  cum  de- 
my God,  when  I  pray;  precor:  a  timore  inimici 
deliver  my  soul  from  the  eripe  animam  meam. 
fear  of  the  enemy.  F.Gloria. 

V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Infirmitatcm.  —  Of  a  M,  and  Bp. 
Have  regard,  O  Almighty  God,  to  our  weakness, 
and,  as  we  sink  under  the  weight  of  our  doings,  let 
the  glorious  intercession  of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr 
and  Bishop,  be  a  protection  to  us.  Thro'. 

Another.  Deus,  qui.— -OGod,  who  by  the  yearly 
solemnity  of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop,  re- 
joicest  the  hearts  of  thy  faithful,  mercifully  grant 
that  we,  who  celebrate  his  martyrdom,  may  enjoy 
his  protection.  Thro'. 

COLLECT.  Prasta.~Qf  a  Martyr  not  a  Bp. 
Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that 
we  who  celebrate  the  festival  of  blessed  N.  thy 
Martyr,  may  by  his  intercession,  be  strengthened  in 
the  love  of  thy  name.  Thro'. 

Another*  Prxsta  qu&sumus.--- Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  N.  thy  Martyr,  we  may  be  delivered  from 


OF  A  MARTYR  IN  PASCHAL  TIME.  47* 

»ll  temporal  adversities,  and  our  hearts  be  cleansed 
from  all  evil  thoughts.     Thro'. 

LESSON.  Wisd.  v.  i.  5.  —  The  just  shall  stand 
with  great  constancy  against  those  that  have  afflicted 
them,  and  taken  away  their  labours.  These  seeing 
it  shall  be  troubled  with  terrible  fear,  and  shall  be 
amazed  at  the  suddenness  of  their  unexpected  saU 
vation,  saying  within  themselves,  repenting  and 
groaning  for  anguish  of  spirit ;  These  are  they  whom 
we  had  some  time  in  derision,  and  for  a  parable  of 
reproach.  We  fools  esteemed  their  lives  madness, 
and  their  end  without  honour.  Behold  how  they 
are  numbered  among  the  children  of  God,  and  their 
lot  is  among  the  saints. 

Instead  of  the  foregoing  Lesson,    the    EPISTLE, 
2  Tim.  ii.  p.  468,  is  occasionally  read. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  heavens,  O  Lord, 
shall  declare  thy  wonders,  and  thy  truth  also  in  the 
assembly  of  the  saints.  Alleluia*  V-  PosuistiDomine, 
super  caput  tjus  coronam,  de  lapide  pretioso.  Alleluia. 
V.  Thou  hast  set  upon  his  head,  O  Lord,  a  crown 
ofjewels.  Alleluia. 

dD00p0l.  John  xv.  i.  7,— At  that  time  :  Jesus 
said  to  /us  disciples ;  1  am  the  true  vine ;  and  my 
Vather  is  the  husbandman.  Every  branch  in  me, 
that  beareth  not  fruit,  he  will  take  away :  and  every 
one  that  beareth  fruit  he  will  purge  it,  that  it  may 
bring  forth  more  fruit.  Now  you  are  clean  by  rea- 
son  of  the  word  which  I  have  spoken  to  you.  Abide 
in  me,  and  I  in  you*  As  the  branch  cannot  bear 
fruit  of  itself,  unless  it  abide  in  the  vine,  so  neither 
can  you,  unless  you  abide  in  me.  I  am  the  vine  ; 
you  the  branches  :  he  that  abideth  in  me,  and  Hu 
him,  the  same  beareth  much  fruit :  for  without  me 
you  can  do  nothing.  If  any  one  abide  not  in  me, 
he  shall  be  cast  forth  as  a  branch,  and  shall  wither, 
and  they  shall  gather  him  up,  and  cast  him  into  the 
R  r  a 


47*  MASS    V.    PROTEXISTf,  &C. 

fire,  and  he  burneth.  If  you  abide  in  me,  and  my 
word  abide  in  you,  you  shall  ask  whatever  you  will, 
and  it  shall  be  done  unte  you. 

OFFERlVPs.  Ixxxviii. — The  heavens  shall  declare 
thy  wonders,  O  Lord,  and  thy  truth  in  the  assembly 
of  the  saints.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Of  a  Martyr  and  a  B  p.— Mercifully  re- 
ceive,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  dedicated  to  thee  by 
the  merits  of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop,  and 
grant  they  may  be  a  continual  support  to  us.  Thro1. 
Another.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  conse- 
crated to  thee  :  and,  being  appeased  thereby,  mer- 
cifully look  upon  us  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  N. 
thy  Martyr  and  Bishop.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Of  a  Martyr  not  a  Bp»— Receive,  O 
Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  our  offerings  and  prayers: 
purify  us  by  those  heavenly  mysteries,  and  mercifully 
hear  us.  Thro'. 

Another.  May  our  devotion,  O  Lord,  be  accept- 
able in  thy  sight  j  and  may  his  intercession,  on 
whose  festival  we  pay  it,  make  it  available  to  our 
salvation.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixiii. — The  just  man  shall  rejoice 
in  the  Lord,  and  hope  in  him  :  and  all  the  upright 
of  heart  shall  receive  praise.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Refecti.—Ofa  Martyr  and  Bishop. 
Being  fed  by  the  participation  of  thy  sacred  gifts,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  we  may  feel 
the  efficacy  thereof  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  N. 
thy  Martyr  and  Bishop.  Thro'. 

Another.  H<zc  nos  Communio.  --•  May  this  com- 
munion, O  Lord,  cleanse  us  from  sin,  and  by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop, 
make  us  effectually  partakers  of  this  heavenly  re- 
medy.  Thro'. 

P.COMM.  Da,  gu<esumu*.~0fa  Martyr  notaftp. 
Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord  our  God,  that 


MASS    VI.  STATUIT  TUI,  &C.  473 

as  we  rejoice  on  the  feasts  of  thy  saints  in  this  life* 
so  we  may  enjoy  their  sight  for  ever  in  that  which  is 
to  come.  Thro.' 

Another.  Iteficti. — Being  fed  by  the  participation 
of  thy  sacred  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord  our 
God,  that  we  may  feel  the  efficacy  thereof,  by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  N.  thy  Martyr.  Thro'. 

MASS  VI.  Sanctitui,  o/MANY  MARTYRS. 

1NTROIT.     jP,v.  cxliv. 

nTlY  saints,  O  Lord,  O  ANCTI  tui,  Domine, 
•••  shall  bless  thee  j  arid  °  benedicent  te ;  glo- 
publish  the  glory  of  thy  riam  regni  tui  dicent, 
kingdom,  Alleluia,  Allel.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
Pa.  I  will  extol  thee,  O  Ps.  Exaltabo  te,  Deus, 
God,  my  king  ;  and  bless  meus  rex ;  et  benedicam 
thy  name  for  ever.  nomini  tno  in  sxculum 

V.  Glory.  sseculi.     F.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Beatorum.—.Of  Martyrs  and  Bps. 
We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the  solemnity  of  the 
blessed  Martyrs  and  Bishops  N.  and  N.  may  be  a 
protection  to  us,  and  their  venerable  prayers  recom- 
mend us  to  thy  mercy.  Thro*. 

COLLECT.     Dcus9   qui Of  Martyrs    only. 

O  God,  by  whose  favour  we  celebrate  the  festival 
of  thy  holy  Martyrs  N.  and  N.  grant  we  may  enjoy 
their  fellowship  in  eternal  bliss.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  i.  3.  7.— Blessed  be  the  God 
and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  according 
to  his  great  mercy  hath  regenerated  us  unto  a  lively 
hope,  hy  the  resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ  from  the 
dead,  unto  an  inheritance  uncorruptible  and  unde- 
filed,  and  that  cannot  fade,  reserved  in  heaven  for 
you,  who  by  the  power  of  God  are  kept  by  faith 
unto  salvation  ready  to  be  revealed  in  the  last  time* 
\Vherein  you  shall  greatly  rejoice,  if  now  you  must 
be  tor  a  little  time  made  sorrowful  in  divers  tempta* 
lions  j  that  the  trial  of  your  faith,  (much  more  pre« 
lit 


474  MASS  VI.    SANCT1  TUI,   &C, 

clous  than  gold  which  Is  tried  by  the  fire)  may  be 
found  unto  praise,  and  glory,  and  honour,  at  the  ap- 
pearing of  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Thy  saints,  O  Lord,  shall 
flourish  like  the  lily  :  and  as  the  sweet  perfume  of 
balsam  shall  they  be  before  thee.  Alleluia.  V. 
Pretiosa  in  conspectu  Domini  mors  sanctorum  ejus. 
Alleluia.  Alleluia.  V.  Precious  in  the  sight  of  God 
is  the  death  of  his  saints.  Alleluia. 


John  xv.  5.  1  1.—  At  that  time  :  Jems 
said  to  his  disciples  :  I  am  the  vine,  you  the  branches  : 
he  that  abideth  in  me,  and  I  in  him,  the  same  bear- 
eth  much  fruit:  for  without  me  you  can  do  nothing. 
If  any  one  abide  not  in  me,  he  shall  be  cast  forth  as 
a  branch,  and  shall  wither,  and  they  shall  gather  him 
up,  and  cast  him  into  the  fire,  and  he  burneth.  If 
you  abide  in  me,  and  my  word  abide  in  you,  you 
shall  ask  whatever  you  will,  and  it  shall  be  done  un- 
to you.  In  this  is  my  Father  glorified  ;  that  you  bring 
forth  very  much  fruit,  and  become  my  disciples. 
As  the  Father  hath  loved  me,  I  also  have  loved  you. 
Abide  in  my  love.  If  you  keep  my  commandments, 
you  shall  abide  in  my  love  ;  as  1  also  have  kept  rny 
Father's  commandments,  and  do  abide  in  his  love. 
These  things  have  I  spoken  to  you,  that  my  joy  may 
be  in  you,  and  your  joy  may  be  filled. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxi.  —  Rejoice  in  the  Lord,  and 
be  transported  with  joy,  O  ye  just;  and  glory  in,  him 
all  ye  upright  of  heart.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Of  Martyrs  and  Bishops  —Attend,  O 
Lord,  to  our  earnest  prayers,  which  we  put  up  in 
memory  of  thy  saints  :  and  since  we  trust  not  in  our 
own  righteousness,  may  we  be  helped  by  the  merits 
of  those,  who  were  well-  pi  easing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  O/  Martyrs  not  Bps.—We  bring  thee, 
O  Lord,  the  offerings  of  our  devotions;  and  may 
they  be  acceptable  to  thee  in  honour  of  thy  saints, 
and  available  to  our  salvation.  Thro*. 


MASS  VII.   INTRET,    &C.  475 

COMM.  Ps.  xxxii.- — Rejoice  in  the  Lord,  O  ye 
just,  Alleluia:  praise  becometh  the  upright.  Allel. 

P.  COMM.  Qutfsumus  —Of  Martyrs  and  Bps.-— 
Being  filled  with  thy  saving  mysteries,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  be  helped  by  their  inter- 
cession, whose  festival  we  celebrate.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Prwta  nobi$.~Of  Martyrs  not  Bps. 
Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  intercession 
of  thy  holy  Martyrs  N.  and  N.  that  what  we  have 
taken  with  our  mouths,  we  may  receive  with  a  pure 
soul.  Thro*. 

MASSVIL  Intret,  of  MANY  MARTYRS. 
INTRO1T.   P*.  Ixxviii. 

LET  the  groans  of  T  NT  RET  in  conspectu 
those  who  are  in  A  tuo,  Domine,  gemi- 
fetters,  ascend  to  thee,  O  tus  compeditorum  :  red- 
Lord  :  render  to  our  de  vicinis  nostns  septu- 
neighbours  sevenfold  in  plum  in  sinu  eorum : 
their  bosom  :  avenge  the  vindica  sanguinem  sane- 
blood  of  thy  saints  which  torum  tuorum,  qui  effu* 
hath  been  spilt.  sus  est. 

Ps.  O  God,  the  Gen-  Ps.  pens,  venerunt 
tiles  have  entered  thine  Gentes  in  haereditatem 
inheritance;  they  have  tuam :  polluerunt  tern- 
polluted  thy  holy  tern-  plum  sanctum  tuum:  po- 
pie;  and  made  Jerusa-  suerunt  Jerusalem  in  po- 
lem  a  store- house  for  ap-  morum  custodiam. 
pies.  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Bcatorum.—We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  that  the  solemnity  of  thy  blessed  Martyrs  and 
Bishops  N.  and  N.  may  be  a  protection  to  us,  and 
their  venerable  prayers  recommend  us  to  thy  mercy. 
Thro'. 

LESSON.  Wisd.  iii.  8.-— The  souls  of  the  just  are 
in  the  hand  of  God,  and  the  torment  of  death  shall 
not  touch  them.  In  the  sight  of  the  unwise  they 
seemed  to  die;  and  their  departure  was  taken  ior 


4?6  MASS  VII.    INTRET,  &C. 

misery;  and  their  going  away  from  us/for  utter  de- 
struction :  but  they  are  in  peace.  And  though  in 
the  sight  of  men  they  suffer  torments,  their  hope  is 
full  of  immortality.  Afflicted  in  few  things,  in  ma. 
ny  they  shall  be  well  rewarded;  because  God  tried 
them,  and  found  them  worthy  of  himself.  As  gold 
in  the  furnace  he  hath  proved  them,  and  as  a  victim 
of  a  holocaust  he  hath  received  them,  and  in  time 
there  shall  be  respect  had  to  them.  The  just  shall 
shine,  and  run  to  and  fro,  like  sparks  among  the 
reeds.  They  shall  judge  nations,  and  rule  over  peo- 
ple, and  their  Lord  shall  reign  for  ever. 

GRAD.  Exod.  xv, — God  is  glorious  in  his  saints, 
wonderful  in  his  Majesty,  and  miraculous  in  his 
works,  V.  Thy  right  hand,  O  Lord,  hath  gloriously 
displayed  its  strength  ;  thy  right  hand  hath  defeated 
thy  enemies.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Corpora  sanc- 
torum in  pace  sepulta  sunt ;  et  noniina  eorum  vivent 
in  generations  et  generationem.  Alleluia.  V.  The 
bodies  of  the  saints  are  buried  in  peace  ;  and  their 
names  shall  live  for  ever  and  ever.  Alleluia. 
After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT.  Ps.  cxxv. — (£ui  seminant  in  lacrymis,  in 
exult  at  ione  metent.  They  who  sow  in  tears,  shall 
reap  in  joy.  V.  They  went  on  weeping,  and  cast 
their  seed.  F.  But  at  their  return  they  shall  come 
with  joy,  bearing  the  fruit  of  their  labours. 

(1600p0U  Luke  xxi.  9. 19. — At  that  time  :  Jcsus 
said  to  his  disciples :  When  you  shall  hear  of  war3 
and  seditions,  be  not  terrified  j  these  things  must 
first  come  to  pass,  but  the  end  is  not  yet  presently. 
Then  he  said  to  them  :  Nation  shall  rise  against  na- 
tion, and  kingdom  against  kingdom.  And  there 
shall  be  great  earthquakes  in  divers  places,  and  pesti- 
lences, and  famines,  and  terrors  from  heaven,  and 
there  shall  be  great  signs.  But  before  all  these  things 
they  will  lay  their  hands  on  you  :  and  persecute  you, 
delivering  you  up  to  the  synagogues  and  into  prU 


MASS  VIII.    SAPIENTIAM,  &C.  477 

sons,  dragging  you  before  kings  and  governors  for 
my  name's  sake.  And  it  shall  happen  unto  you  for  a 
testimony.  Lay  it  up  therefore  in  your  hearts,  not 
to  meditate  before  how  you  shall  answer.  For  I 
will  give  you  a  mouth  and  wisdom,  which  all  your 
adversaries  shall  not  be  able  to  resist  or  gainsay. 
And  you  shall  be  betrayed  by  your  parents,  and  bre- 
thren, and  kinsmen,  and  friends:  and  some  of  you 
they  will  put  to  death.  And  you  shall  be  hated  by 
all  men  tor  my  name's  sake:  but  a  hair  of  your 
head  shall  not  perish,  in  your  patience  you  shall 
possess  your  souls. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixv.— God  is  wonderful  in  his 
saints :  the  God  of  Israel  himself  will  give  power  and 
strength  to  his  people;  blessed  be  God.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Attend,  O  Lord,  to  our  earnest  pray- 
ers, which  we  put  up  in  memory  of  thy  saints;  and 
since  we  trust  not  in  our  own  righteousness,  may  we 
be  helped  by  the  merits  of  those,  who  were  well- 
pleasing  to  thee.  Thro.' 

COMM.  Wisd.  iii.— Though  they  suffered  tor- 
ments in  the  sight  of  men,  God  only  tried  them; 
like  gold  in  the  furnace  he  proved  them,  and  like  aa 
holocaust  he  accepted  them. 

P.  COMM.    Qn*utmv$ Being  filled  with  thy 

saving  mysteries,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we 
may  be  helped  by  their  intercession,  whose  festivals 
we  celebrate.  Thro'. 

MASS  VIII.  Sapiemiam,  of  the  same. 

1NTROIT.  Ecclcs.  xliv. 

T  ET  nations  relate  the  C  Apientiam    sanctorum 

•*^  wisdom  of  the  saints;  ^    narrent    populi;    et 

and  the  Church   publish  laudes  eorum  nuntietEc- 

their  praises.  Their  names  clesia.     Nomiua    eorum 

shall    live  for  ever.     P$.  viventin  sseculumsseculi. 
Rejoice  in  the  Lord,  ye        Ps.  Exultate   justi  ia, 


47^  MASS  VIII.  SAPIENT1AM,    &O 

just:  His  praise  becom-    Domino:    rectos    decet 
eth  the  righteous.  collaudatio. 

F.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui  nos. — O  God,  by  whose 
favour  we  celebrate  the  festival  of  thy  holy  Martyrs 
N.  and  N.  ^rant  that  we  may  enjoy  their  fellowship 
in  eternal  bliss.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Wisd.  v.— The  just  shall  live  for  ever-  , 
more,  and  their  reward  is  with  the  Lord,  and  the 
care  of  them  with  the  Most  High.  Therefore  shall 
they  receive  a  kingdom  of  glory,  and  a  crown  of 
beauty  at  the  hand  of  the  Lord:  for  with  his  right 
hand  he  will  cover  them,  and  with  his  holy  arm  will 
he  defend  them.  His  zeal  will  take  its  armour,  and  he 
\vill  arm  the  creature  for  the  revenge  of  his  enemies. 
He  will  put  on  justice  as  a  breast- plate,  and  will  take 
equity  for  an  invincible  shield. 

GRADUAL.  Ps,  cxxxiii. — Our  soul,  like  a  spar- 
row, hath  escaped  the  hunter's  snare.  V.  The  snare 
is  broke,  and  we  are  at  liberty:  our  help  is  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord,  who  made  heaven  and  earth. 
Allel.  Allel.  V.  Ps.  Ixvii. — Justi  epulentur  et  exul- 
tent  in  conspectu  Dei,  ct  delectentur  in  tetitia.  Allel. 
V.  Let  the  just  feast  and  rejoice  in  the  presence  of 
God;  and  be  delighted  in  gladness.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  imtead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT,  Qui  seminant,  p.  476. 

<E00ptl+  Luke  vi.  17.  23.—^  that  time\  Jesus 
going  down  from  the  mountain,  stood  in  a  plain 
place,  and  the  company  of  his  disciples,  and  a  very 
great  multitude  of  people  from  all  Judea  and  Jeru- 
salem, and  the  sea  coast  both  of  Tyre  and  Sidon,  who 
were  come  to  hear  him,  and  to  be  healed  of  their 
diseases.  And  they  that  were  troubled  with  unclean 
spirits,  were  cured.  And  all  the  multitude  sought 
to  touch  him,  for  virtue  went  of  him,  and  healed  all. 
And  he,  lifting  up  his  eyes  on  his  disciples,  said; 


MASS  IX.    SALUS  AUTEM,  &C.  479 

Blessed  are  the  poor ;  for  yours  is  the  kingdom  of 
God.  Blessed  are  ye  that  hunger  now;  for  you 
shall  be  tilled.  Blessed  are  ye  that  weep  now  j  for 
you  shall  laugh.  Blessed  shall  you  be  when  men 
shall  hate  you,  and  when  they  shall  separate  from 
you,  and  shall  reproach  you,  and  cast  out  your  name 
as  evil,  for  the  Son  of  Man's  sake.  Be  glad  in  that 
day,  and  rejoice :  for  behold,  your  reward  is  great 
in  heaven. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxlviii.— The  saints  shall  rejoice 
in  glory:  they  shall  be  joyful  on  their  couches:  the 
praises  of  God  shall  be  in  their  mouths.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  We  bring  thee,  O  Lord,  the  offerings 
of  our  devotion;  and  may  they  be  acceptable  to 
thee  in  honour  of  thy  saints,  and,  by  thy  mercy, 
available  to  our  salvation.  Thro  . 

COMM.  Lukex\\. — But  1  say  to  you,  my  friends; 
fear  not  those  who  persecute  you. 

P.  COMM.  Prasta.— -  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  Martyrs  N. 
and  N.  that  what  we  have  taken  with  our  mouths, 
we  may  receive  .with  a  pure  soul.  Thro'. 

MASS  IX.  Salus  autem,  of  the  same. 
1NTROIT.     Ps.ixxxvi. 

THE  salvation  of  the  OAlus  autem  justorum 
just  is  from  the  O  a  Domino;  et  pro- 
Lord:  and  he  is  their  tector  eorum  est  in  tern- 
protector  in  the  time  of  pore  tribulationis.  Ps. 
distress.  Ps  Emulate  not  Noli  aemulari  in  malig- 
the  doers  of  evil;  nor  namibus;  neque  zelave- 
envy  them  that  work  ini-  ris  facientes  iniquitaterru 
quity  V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  yw*.— O  God,  who,  by  the 
yearly  solemnity  of  thy  holy  Martyrs  N.  and  N.  com- 
fortest  us  thy  people;  mercifully  grant,  that,  as  we 
rejoice  at  their  merits,  we  may  likewise  be  encou- 
raged by  iheir  examples.  Thro*. 


480  MASS  IX.    SALUS  AUTEM,  &C. 

EPISTLE.  Heb.  x.  32.  38..~BrefAr«i;  Call  to 
mind  the  former  days,  wherein,  being  illuminated, 
you  endured  a  great  fight  of  afflictions.  And  on  the 
one  hand  indeed,  by  reproaches  and  tribulations 
were  made  a  gazing-stock;  and  on  the  other,  be- 
come  companions  of  them  that  were  used  in  such 
sort.  For  you  both  had  compassion  on  them  that 
•were  in  bands,  and  took  with  joy  the  being  stripped 
of  your  own  goods,  knowing  that  you  have  a  better 
and  a  tasting  substance.  Do  not  therefore  lose  your 
confidence,  which  hath  a  great  reward.  For  patience 
is  necessary  to  you  5  that  doing  the  will  of  God,  you 
may  receive  the  promise.  For  yet  a  little  and  a  ve- 
ry little  while,  and  he  that  is  to  come,  will  come,  and 
will  not  delay.  But  my  just  man  liveth  by  faith. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiii. — The  just  cried  out,  and  the 
Lord  heard  them,  and  delivered  them  from  tribula- 
tions. V.  The  Lord  is  near  to  those  who  are  afflict- 
ed in  spirit;  and  he  will  save  the  humble  of  heart. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Te  martyrum  candidakus  lau* 
dat  cxercituSjDomine.  Alleluia.  V.  The  white- robed 
army  of  Martyrs  praise  thee,  O  Lord.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT,  Qui  seminant,  p.  476. 

C5o£p£U  Matt.  xxiv.  3.  14  —  At  that  time: 
As  Jesus  was  sitting  on  mount  Olivet,  the  disciples 
came  to  him  privately,  saying:  Tell  us  when  these 
things  shall  be?  and  what  shall  be  the  signs  of  thy 
coming,  and  of  the  consummation  of  the  world? 
And  Jesns  answering  said  to  them  :  Take  heed  that 
no  man  seduce  you  :  for  many  wrill  come  in  my 
name,  saying:  I  am  Christ:  and  they  will  seduce 
many.  And  you  shall  hear  of  wars,  and  rumours  of 
wars.  See  that  ye  be  not  troubled.  For  these  things 
must  come  to  pass,  but  the  end  is  not  come.  For 
nation  shall  rise  against  nation,  and  kingdom  against 
kingdom  ;  and  there  shall  be  pestilence,  and  famine, 
aad  earthquakes  in  places:  ngw  ail  these  are  the  be. 


OF  A  CONFESSOR  AND  BISHOP.  4^1 

ginning  of  sorrows.  Then  shall  they  deliver  you  up 
to  be  afflicted,  and  shall  put  you  to  death  :  and  you 
shall  be  hated  by  all  nations  for  my  name's  sake. 
And  then  shall  many  be  scandalized;  and  shall  be- 
tray  one  another:  and  shall  hate  one  another  And 
many  false  prophets  shall  rise,  and  seduce  many. 
And  because  iniquity  hath  abounded-,  the  chanty  of 
many  shall  grow  cold.  But  he  that  shall  persevere 
to  the  end  shall  be  saved. 

OFFERT.  Wisd.  iii.---The  souls  of  the  just  are  in 
the  hands  of  God,  and  the  torments  of  malice  shall 
not  touch  them.  To  the  eyes  of  the  foolish  they 
seemed  to  die:  but  they  are  in  peace  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  by  the  offerings  we  have  made;  and  defend  us 
from  all  dangers,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy 
Martyrs  N,  and  N.  Thro1. 

CO  MM.  What  I  say  to  you  in  the  dark,  speak 
you  in  the  light,  saith  the  Lord  :  and  what  is  whis- 
pered you  in  the  ear,  preach  yon  on  the  house-tops. 

P.  COMM.  JIfi-c  r/.(h\ — May  this  communion,  O 
Lord,  purify  us  from  sin,  and,  by  the  intercession  of 
thy  holy  Martvrs  N.  and  N.  make  us  partakers  0f 
the  joys  of  heaven.  Thro'. 

MASS  X.*  Statuit,  of  a  CONFESSOR  and  RP> 

Exclusive  of  those  degrees  of  Confessors  who  have  glo- 
t  rifted  Jesus  Christ,  as  well  by  their  sufferings  for 
religion,  as  by  the  purity  of  their  lives,  (such  as  Bislwps, 
PricjtS)  Doctors  of  the  Church,  Monks  and  folitarie>)9  there 
were  also  others,  of  various  /ecular  conditions,  who  passed 
through  life  without  being  attached  to  the  things  of  the 
world.  Despising  whatever  is  transitory,  they  ded 
themselves  to  God;  r.nd  mortifying  their  bodies  by  a  ri- 
gorous penance,  obtained  so  absolute  a  conquest  over  their 
own  will,  as  t.o  suffer  a  kind  of  martyrdom.  Let  us  there- 
fore beseech  God  on  their  several  festivals,  that  he  would 
enable  us  to  follow  their  example. 


482  MASS  X.*    STATUIT, 

1NTRO1T,  as  in  Mass  I.  p.  461. 

COLLECT.  D</,  giHtsumus..  -Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  0  Almighty  God,  that  the  venerable  solem- 
nity of  blessed  N.  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  may 
improve  our  devotion,  and  strengthen  in  us  the  hopes 
of  salvation.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Eccles.  xliv.  and  xlv— Behold  a  great 
priest,  who  in  his  time  pleased  God,  and  was  found 
just:  and  in  the  time  of  wrath  became  an  atone- 
ment.  There  were  n«ne  found  like  him  in  observ- 
ing the  law  of  the  Most  High.  Therefore,  by  an 
oath,  did  the  Lord  make  him  great  amongst  his  peo- 
ple. He  gave  him  the  blessing  of  all  nations,  and 
established  his  covenant  on  his  head.  He  acknow- 
ledged him  in  his  blessings:  lie  stored  up  his  mercy 
for  him:  and  he  found  favour  in  the  eyes  of  the  Lord. 
(Chap,  xlv.)  He  exalted  him  in  the  sight  of  kings  r 
and  gave  him  a  crown  of  glory.  He  made  with  him 
an  eternal  covenant:  and  bestowed  on  him  a  great 
priesthood:  and  rendered  him  blessed  in  glory.  To 
perform,  the  priestly  office,  to  sing  praises  to  the 
name  of  God  j  and  to  offer  him  precious  incense 
for  an  odour  of  sweetness. 

GRAI).     Ecclts.  xliv Behold  a  great  prelate, 

who  in  his  days  pleased  God.  V.  1  here  was  none 
found  like  him  in  keeping  the  law  of  the  Most  High. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Tu  cs  sacerdos  in  a  tern  urn 
jecu,ndu?n  urdinc.ni  Mtlchisedech.  Alleluia.  V.  Thou 
art  a  priest  fwr  ever,  according  to  the  order  of  Mel- 
chisedech.  Alleluia. 

After  SepUjag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 

TRACT,  Beatus,  p.  465. 

(!£>Q0ptL  Matt.  -xxv.  14,  23.— At  that  time  : 
Jesus  spokt  this  parable  to  his  disciples  :  A  man  going 
into  a  far  country,  called  his  servants,  and  delivered 
to  thftn  his  goods.  And  to  one  he  gave  five  talents, 
arid  to  another  two,  and  to  another  one,  to  every  one 
according  to  His  proper  ability ;  and  immediately  he 


OF  A  CONFESSOR  AND   BISHOP.  483 

took  his  journey.  And  he  that  had  received  the  five 
talents  went  his  way  and  traded  with  the  same,  and 
gained  other  tive.  And  in,  like  manner  he  that  had 
received  the  two,  gained  other  two.  But  he  that 
had  received  the  one,  going  his  way  digged  into  the 
earth,  and  hid  his*  lord's  money.  But  after  a  long 
time  the  lord  ot"  those  servants  came,  and  reckoned 
with  them.  And  he  that  had  received  the  tive  ta- 
lents coming,  brought  other  five  talents,  saying: 
Lord,  thou  didst  deliver  to  me  five  talents,  behold 
1  have  gained  other  five  over  and  above.  His  lord 
said  to  him;  Well  done  good  and  faithful  servant, 
because  thou  hast  been  faithful  over  a  few  things,  I 
will  place  thee  over  many  things  :  enter  thou  into 
the  joy  of  thy  lord.  And  he  also  that  had  received 
the  two  talents  came  and  said :  Lord,  thou  deli- 
veretlst  two  talents  to  me:  behold  1  have  gained 
other  two.  His  lord  said  to  him  :  Well  done  good 
and  faithful  servant,  because  thou  hast  been  faithful 
over  a  few  things,  I  will  place  thee  over  many  things : 
enter  thou  into  the  joy  ot  thy  lord. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  88.— I  have  found  David,  my  ser- 
vant; with  my  holy  oil  have  i  anointed  him  My 
hand  shall  help  him,  and  my  arm  shall  strengthen 
him. 

SECRET.  May  thy  saints,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  cause  joy  to  all  thy  peop.le:  that  while  we 
celebrate  their  merits,  we  may  experience  their  pa- 
tronage. Thro'. 

COMM.  Luke  xii. — This  is  the  faithful  and  pru- 
dent servant,  whom  the  Lord  placed  over  h  s  family, 
to  give  them  in  due  season  their  measure  of  wheat. 

P.  COMM.  Pr<K/a.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  while  we  return  thee  thanks 
for  what  we  have  partaken  of,  we  may,  by  the  in- 
tercession  of  blessed  N.  thy  Contossor  and"  Bishop, 
receive  still  greater  favours.  Thro'. 

Ss  a 


MASS  XL  Sacerdoles  tui,  of  the  same. 

INTROIT.     Ps.  cxxxi. 
F  ET  thy  priests  put  on     G  Acerdoies  tui,Domine, 

Jt  justice,  and  thy  saints  ^  induatitur  justitium, 
rejoice,  O  Lord.  For  the  et  sancti  tui  exuitent. 
sake  of  David  thy  ser-  Propter  David  servum 
vant,  turn  not  away  the  tmim,  non  avertas  faciem 
face  of  thine  anointed,  Christi  tui. 
Pa.  Remember  David,  O  Ps.  Memento,  Domine, 
Lord,  and  all  his  meek-  David,  et  omnis  mausue- 
ness.  F.  Glory.  tudinisejus.  F.  Gloria* 

COLLECT.  JE,«md«— Hear,  6  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  the  prayers  we  offer  on  this  solemnity 
of  blessed  N»  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop;  and  by  his 
intercession,  who  worthily  served  thee,  deliver  us 
from  all  our  sins.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Heb.vi\.  23,  27.— Brethren-.  Thjere 
vteie  for  merit/  many  high  priests  successively  ;  because 
by  reason  of  death  they  were  not  suffered  to  conti- 
nue. But  Jesus,  for  that  he  continueth  for  ever,  hath 
an  everlasting  priesthood.  Whereby  he  is  able  also 
to  save  for  ever  them  that  come  to  God  by  him :  al- 
ways living  to  make  intercession  for  us.  For  it  was 
fitting  that  we  should  have  such  a  high  priest,  holy, 
innocent,  undefiled,  separated  from  sinner?,  and 
made  higher  than  the  heavens;  who  needeth  not 
daily  (as  the  other  priests)  to  offer  sacrifices  first  for 
his  own  sins,  and  then  for  the  people's  :  for  this  Je- 
sus our  Lord  did  once  in  offering  himself. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxx.---l  will  clothe  her  priests  with 
salvation,  and  her  saints  shall  rejoice  exceedingly. 
F.  There  will  I  shew  the  power  of  David:  I  have 
prepared  a  lamp  for  my  anointed  one.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  V.  Juravil  Dominus,  et  non  pccnitcblt  eum  ; 
Tu  es  sacerdos  in  atcrnum  secunduw  ordinejn  Melcki* 
sedech*  Alleluia.  V.  The  Lord  hath  sworn,  and 
will  not  repent:  ihou  art  a  priest  for  ever  according 
to  the  order  of  Melchisedech.  Alleluia* 


MASS  XII.    IN  MEDIO,   &C.  4&$ 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT,  Beatus,  p.  465 

CSOSptU    Matt.  xxiv.  42.47. At  that  time' 

Jesus  said  to  fiis  disciples :  Watch  ye  therefore,  because 
ye  know  not  the  hour  your  Lord  will  come.  But 
this  know  ye,  that  if  the  good  man  of  the  house 
knew  at  what  hour  the  tine.t  would  come,  he  would 
certainly  watch,  and  would  not  sutler  his  house  to 
be  broke  open.  Wherefore  be  ye  also  ready,  because 
at  what  hour  you  know  not,  the  Son  of  man  will 
come.  Who  thmkest  tliou  is  a  faithful  and  wise 
servant,  whom  his  lord  has  appointed  over  his  fami- 
ly, to  give  them  meat  in  season  ?  *  Blessed  is  that 
servant,  whom  when  his  lord  shall  come,  he  shall 
finvi  so  doing.  Amen,  J  say  to  you,  he  shall  place 
him  over  all  his  goods  f» 

OFFERT.  My  iruth  and  my  mercy  are  witli  him, 
and  in  my  name,  his  power  shall  be  exalted. 

SECRET.  May  the  annual  solemnity,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  of  holy  N.  thj  Confessor  and  Bishop, 
render  us  acceptable  to  thy  mercy  ;  that,  by  this  sa- 
crifice of  propitiation,  he  may  both  receive  a  happy 
reward,  and  obtain  for  us  the  gifts  of  thy  mercy. 
Thro'. 

OOMM.  *  Blessed,  &c.  as  above,  from  *  to  f . 

P.  COMM.  JJcus  /Ltclium. — O  God,  the  reward- 
er  of  faithful  souls,  grant  that  we  may  obtain  for- 
giveness by  the  prayers  of  blessed  N.  thy  Confessor 
and  Bishop,  whose  venerable  feast  we  celebrate. 
Thro'. 

MASS  XII.  in  medio,  of  DOCTORS. 
INTROiT.    Ecclet.xv. 

HE  opened  his  mouth      f  N  medio  Ecclesix  ape- 
in  the  midst  of  the     Jl    ruit   os   eJMs,  et  ini- 
C'hurch,   and  the    Lord     plevit  eu;n  Dominus  spi. 
filled  him  with  the  spirit     ritu  sapientiic    et   inteU 


4-86  MASS  XII.  IN  MEDIO, 

of  wisdom:  he  clad  him    leclus:  stolam  gloriseirv 
with  a    robe   of   glory,     duiteum. 
Pi1.  It  is  good  to  praise  the        Ps.  Bonum  est  confiteri 
Lord,   and  sing    to  thy    Domino,  et  psallere  no- 
name,  O  thou  the  Most    mini  tuo,  Altissime  1 
High  !     F.  Glory.  F,  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.~.Q  God,  who  didst  give 
blessed  N.  to  thy  people  for  a  minister  of  eternal  sal- 
ration  ;  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  he  who  was 
the  instructer  of  our  life  here  on  earth,  may  become 
our  intercessor  in  heaven.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  2  Tim.  iv.  2,  8.  ..Most  dearly  beloved; 
I  charge  thee  before  God  and  Jesus  Christ,  who  shall 
judge  the  living  and  the  dead,  by  his  coming,  and 
his  kingdom:  preach  the  word;  be  instant  in  sea- 
son, out  of  season;  reprove,  entreat,  rebuke,  in  all 
patience  and  doctrine.  For  there  shall  be  a  time, 
when  they  will  not  endure  sound  doctrine  :  but  ac- 
cording to  their  own  desires  they  will  heap  to  them- 
selves teachers,  having  itching  ears.  And  will  in- 
deed turn  away  their  hearing  from  the  truth,  but 
will  be  turned  into  fables.  But  be  thou  vigilant, 
labour  in  all  things,  do  the  work  of  an  evangelist, 
fulfil  thy  ministry.  Be  sober.  For  1  am  even  now 
ready  to  be  sacrificed ;  and  the  time  of  my  disso- 
lution is  at  hand.  I  have  fought  a  good  fight,  I 
have  finished  my  course,  J  have  kept  the  faith.  As 
to  the  rest,  there  is  laid  up  for  me  a  crown  of  jus- 
tice,  which  the  Lord,  the  just  judge,  will  render  to 
me  in  that  day :  and  not  only  to  me,  but  to  them 
also  who  love  his  coming. 

GRAD.  Ps  xxxvi. —  The  mouth  of  the  just  shall 
utter  wisdom:  and  his  tongue  speak  judgment,  F% 
The  law  of  God  is  in  his  heart:  and  his  feet  shall 
not  be  moved.  Alleluia,  Alleluia,  V.  Amavit  eum 
fj)ominus9  et  ornamt  eum  ;  stolam  glori&  indult  eum. 
V.  The  Lord  loved  him,  and  adorned  him,  and  hath 
cloathed  him  with  a  robe  of  glory. 


OF    DOCTORS,  *$7 

After  Septua^.  instead  of  Alle'uia  andV.  is  said 

TRACT,  Beatus,  p.  465. 

(BOjSpCl*     Matt,  v.   13.    19-  —  At  that  timei 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples ;  You  are  the  salt  of  the 
earth      But  if  the  salt  lose  its  savour,  wherewiU 
shall  it  be  salted  ?    It  is  good  for  nothing  any  more 
but  to  be  cast  out,  and  to  be  trodden  on  by   men. 
You  are  the  light  of  the  world.     A  city  seated  on  a 
mountain  cannot  be  hid.     Neither  do  men  light  a 
candle  and  put  it  under  a  bushel,  but  upon  a  candle- 
stick, that  it  may  shine  to  all  that  are  in  the  house, 
So  let  your  light  shine  before  men,  that  they  may 
see  your  good  works,  and  glorify  your  Father  who  is 
in  heaven.     Do  not  think  that  1  am  come  to  destroy 
the  law,  or  the  prophets.    I  am  not  come  to  destroy, 
but  to  fulfil.     For,  amen  I  say  to  you,  till  heaven 
and  earth  pass,  one  jot  or  one  tittle  shall  not  pass  of 
the  law  till  all  be  fulfilled.     He  therefore  that  shall 
break  one  of  the  least  of  these  commandments,  and 
shall  so  teach  men,  shall  be  the  least  in  the  kingdom 
of  heaven.     But  he  that  shall  do  and  teach,  he  shall 
be  called  great  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

OFFERT.  Ps  xc.— The  just  man  shall  flourish 
like  ihe  palm-tree:  he  shall  thrive  like  the  cedar  of 
Li  ban  us. 

SECRET.  Let  the  pious  prayers  of  thy  holy  ser. 
vant  N.  never  be  wanting  to  us,  O  Lord :  that  they 
may  make  our  offerings  acceptable  to  dice,  and  al- 
ways obtain  for  us  thy  pardon.  Thro  . 

CO  MM.  Luke  xii.— This  is  the  faithful  and  pru- 
dent servant,  whom  the  Lord  placed  over  his  family, 
to  give  them  their  measure  of  wheat  in  due  season. 

P.  COMM.  Vt  /iutos..--Let  blessed  N.  O  Lord, 
thy  Confessor  and  great  Doctor,  become  our  advo- 
cate, that  this  thy  holy  sacrifice  may  procure  our 
salvation.  Thro'. 


[     4*8     J 
MASS  XML  Os  justi,  of  a  CONFESSOR  not  a  UP 

1NTROIT.     Ps.  xxxvi. 

^IPI-IE  mouth  of  the  £\$  justi  nieditabitur 
JL  just  man'shall  utter  \J  sapientiam,  et  I'm. 
wisdom,  and  his  tongue  gua  ejus  loquetur  judici- 
speak  judgment;  the  law  um  :  lex  "Dei  ejus  in  cor- 
of  his  God  is  in  his  heart,  de  ipsius.  Ps,  Noli  aemu- 
Ps.Emulate  not  the  wick-  lari  in  mali^nantibus  : 
ed,  nor  envy  those  who  neque  zelaveris  facientes 
work  iniquity.  V.  Glory,  iniquitatem.  F»  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dens  quL — O  God,  who  com  for  test 
us  by  the  yearly  solemnity  of  blessed  N»  thy  Confes. 
sor  ;  mercifully  grant,  that  while  we  celebrate  his 
festival,  we  may  imitate  his  actions.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Eccl.  xxxi  8,  1 1. — Blessed  is  the  man 
that  is  found  without  blemish;  and  that  hath  not 
gone  afier  gold,  nor  put  his  trust  in  money  nor  in 
treasures.  Who  is  he,  and  we  will  praise  him,  for 
he  hath  done  wonderful  things  in  his  life.  Who  hath 
been  tried  thereby,  and  made  perfect,  he  shall  have 
glory  everlasting.  He  that  could  have  transgressed, 
and  hath  not  transgressed  :  and  could  do  evil  things, 
and  hath  not  done  them.  Therefore  are  his  goods 
established  in  the  Lord,  and  all  the  church  of  the 
saints  shall  declare  his  alms. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xcL— The  just  man  shall  flourish 
like  the  palm  tree:  he  shall  thrive  like  the  cedar  of 
Li  ban  us  in  the  house  of  the  Lord.  V.  To  publish 
thy  mercy  in  the  morning,  and  thy  truth  by  night: 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Beat  us  vir  gui  sufei't  tenta- 
tione//i9  (/uoniam  cum  probatus  fuei'it,  accipiet^coronafti 
Tit<i.  Alleluia*  V.  Blessed  i*  the  man  that  suffers 
temptation;  for  when  he  has  been  tried,  he  shall 
receive  a  crown  of  life.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  find  V.  is  said 
TRACT,  Btatus,   p.  465. 

'(K500p0L  l.nke  xii.  35,  4^-  —  At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  lUtfiples :  Let }  our  loins  be  girt,  and 


MASS  XIV.    JUSTUS  UT  PALMA,  &C.  48? 

lamps  burning  in  your  hands,  and  be  you  yourselves 
like  to  men  who  wait  lor  their  lord,  when  he  shall 
return  from  the  wedding;  that  when  he  cpmeUi 
and  knocketh,  they  may  open  to  him  immediately. 
Blessed  are  those  servants,  whom  the  Lord,  when 
comtth,  shall  find  watching  Amen,  1  say  to  you, 
that  he  will  gird  himself;  and  make  them  sit  down 
to  meat,  and  passing  will  minister  unto  them.  And 
if  he  shall  come  in  the  second  watch,  or  come  in  the 
third  watch,  and  find  them  so,  blessed  are  those  ser- 
vants. But  this  know  ye,  that  if  the  householder  did 
know  at  what  hour  the  thief  would  come,  he  would 
surely  watch,  and  would  not  suffer  his  house  to  be 
broke  open.  Be  you  then  also  ready  :  for  at  what 
hour  yon  think  not,  the  Son  of  man  will  come. 

OFFERTORY.  Pa.  ixxxv'iii.—  My  truth  and  my 
mercy  are  with  him:  and  in  my  name  shall  his 
power  be  exalted. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  in  honour  of 
thy  saints,  a  sacrifice  of  praise,  by  which  we  hope  to 
be  delivered  from  all  present  and  future  evils.  Thro'. 

COMMUNION.  Matt,  xxiv.~ Blessed  is  the  ser- 
vant whom  the  Lord,  when  he  cometh,  shall  find 
watching.  Amen,  1  say  to  you,  he  shall  set  him 
over  all  he  hath. 

P.  COMM.  Refect L—  Being  refreshed,  O  Lord, 
with  this  heavenly  meat  and  drink,  we  humbly  be- 
seech thee,  that  we  may  be  assisted  by  his  prayers, 
on  whose  feast  we  have  received  these  sacred  myste- 
ries. Thro1. 

MASS  XIV.  Justus  ut  palma,    of  the  same* 

1NTRO1T.     Ps-xci. 

>pI-IE  just  shall  flourish      1  USTUS  ut  palma  flo. 

**    like  the  palm-tree  :     *J    rebit :    sicut    ceirus 

he  shall  thrive   like  the     Libani     multiplicabitur: 

cedar  of  Ubanus :  being    plantatus  hi  domo  Do- 


49°     '        MASS  XIV.    JUSTUS  UT  PALMA,  &C. 

planted  in  the  house  of    mini,     iu    atriis    domus 

the  Lord,  in  the  courts    Dei  nostrr. 

of  the  house  of  our  God.        Ps.  Bonum  est  confi- 

Ps.  It  is  good  to  praise     teri   Domino:     et   psal- 

the  Lord,  and  to  sing  to     lere    no  mini   tuo   Altis- 

thy  name,  O  thou   the     sime ! 

Most  High !     V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Adesto.— -Attend,  O  Lord,  to  the 
humble  prayers  we  present  to  thee  on  the  solemnity 
of  blessed  N.  thy  Confessor;  that  we,  who  have  no 
confidence  in  our  own  righteousness,  may  be  helped 
by  his  prayers,  who  was  so  pleasing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  iv.  9,  14.— Brethren:  We  are 
rriade  a  spectacle  to  the  -world,  and  to  angels  and  to 
men.  We  are  fools  for  Christ's  sake,  but  you  are 
wise  in  Christ ;  we  are  weak,  but  you  are  strong: 
you  are  honourable,  but  we  without  honour.  Even 
unto  this  hour  we  both  hunger,  and  thirst,  and  are 
naked,  and  are  buffeted,  and  have  no  fixed  abode, 
and  we  labour  working  with  our  own  hands:  we 
are  reviled,  and  we  bless :  we  are  persecuted,  and 
we  suffer  it.  We  are  blasphemed,  and  we  entreat: 
We  are  made  as  the  refuse  of  this  world,  the  offscour- 
ing  of  all,  even  until  now.  I  write  not  these  things 
to  confound  you  ;  but  I  admonish  you  as  my  dear- 
est children,  in  Christ  Jesus  OUT  Lord. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxvi* — The  mouth  of  the  just  man 
shall  utter  wisdom,  and  his  tongue  shall  speak  judg- 
ment. The  'aw  of  God  is  in  his  heart,  and  his  feet 
shall  not  be  moved.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Beatiis 
vir  qui  timet  Dominum  ;  in  mandatis  ejus  cupit  nimis. 
AlleL  V.  Blessed  is  the  man  that  fears  the  Lord ; 
he  delights  in  his  commandments.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 

TRACT,  Beatus,  p,  465. 

CB00pCU  Luke  xii.  32,  34. — At  that  timei 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples :  r ear  not  little  flock,  for 
it  hath  pleased  your  Father  to  give  you  a  kingdom. 


MASS  XV.  *  OS  JUSTI,    OF  ABBOTS.  491 

Sell  what  you  possess  and  give  alms.  Make  to  your- 
selves  bags,  which  grow  not  old,  a  treasure  in  hea- 
ven which  faileth  not:  where  no  thief  appeareth, 
nor  moth  corrupteth.  For  where  your  treasure  is, 
there  will  your  heart  be  also. 

OFFERTORY.  Ps.  xx.— The  just,  O  Lord,  shall 
exult  in  thy  power,  and  rejoice  exceedingly  thatthou 
hast  saved  him;  thou  hast  granted  him  his  soul's  desire. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  our  humble  offerings  may  be  acceptable 
to  thee,  for  the  honour  of  thy  saints,  and  purify  us 
both  in  body  and  mind.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt.  xix. — Amen,  I  say  to  you,  that 
you  who  have  forsaken  all  things,  and  followed  me, 
shall  receive  an  hundred-fold,  and  obtai«  eternal  life. 

P.  COMM.  Qud-sumns.—-\Ve  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy 
Confessor  N.  the  heavenly  food  we  have  received 
may  defend  us  from  all  adversity.  Thro'. 

MASS  XV,  *  Os  justi,  of  ABBOTS. 
INTROIT,  as  in  the  XIII.  Mass,  p.  488. 

COLLECT.  Intcrccmo. — May  the  intercession, 
O  Lerd,  of  the  B.  Abbot  N,  recommend  us  to  thee  ; 
that  what  we  cannot  hope  for  through  our  own  me- 
rits, we  may  obtain  by  his  prayers.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Hecks,  xlv.  i,  6. —  This  saint  was  be. 
loved  of  God  and  men  :  whose  memory  is  in  bene- 
diction. He  made  him  like  the  saints  in  glory,  and 
magnified  him  in  the  fear  of  his  enemies.  And  with 
his  words  he  made  prodigies  to  cease.  He  glorified 
him  in  the  sight  of  kings,  and  gave  him  command- 
ments in  the  sight  of  his  people,  and  shewed  hi.n 
his  glory.  He  sanctified  him  in  his  faith  and  meek- 
ness, and  chose  him  out  of  all  flesh.  For  he  heard 
him  and  his  voice,  and  brought  him  into  a  cloud. 
And  he  gave  him  commandments  before  his  face, 
and  a  law  of  life  and  instruction. 


492  MASS  XV.    *   OS  JUSTI,   OF  ABBOTS. 

GR  AD.  Ps  xx, — Lord,  thou  hast  prevented  him 
with  thy  sweet  blessings  :  thou  hast  set  on  his  head  a 
crown  of  jewels.  V.  He  asked  life  of  thee,  and  thou 
hast  granted  him  length  of  days,  for  ever  and  ever. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Justus  et  paima  florebit ;  sicut 
cednts  Libani  multiplicabitur.  •  Alleluia*  l\  The 
just  shall  flourish  like  the  palm-tree  :  he  shall  thrive 
like  the  cedar  of  Libanus.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT,  Btotus,  p.  465. 

dSO^peU  Matt.  xix.  27.  29  —  At  that  timt : 
Peter  said  to  Jems;  Behold  we  have  left  all  things, 
and  have  followed  thee:  what  therefore  shall  we 
have?  And  Jesus  said  to  them:  Amen,  I  say  to 
you,  that  you  who  have  followed  me  in  the  rege- 
neration, when  the  Son  of  Man  shall  sit  on  the  seat 
of  his  majesty,  you  also  shall  sit  on  twelve  seats, 
judging  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel.  And  every  one 
that  hath  left  house,  or  brethren,  or  sisters,  or  fa- 
ther, or  mother,  or  wife,  or  children,  or  land,  for 
my  name's  sake,  shall  receive  an  hundred  fold,  and 
shall  possess  live  everlasting. 

OFFERT.     Ps  xx Thou  hast  granted  him,  O 

Lord,  his  soul's  des;re,  and  hast  not  disappointed 
him  of  what  he  asked.  Thou.hast  set  on  his  head  a 
crown  of  jewels. 

SECRET.  May  blessed  N.  the  Abbot  intercede 
for  us,  O  Lord,  that  the  offerings  we  have  laid  on 
thy  nltn.rs,  may  avail  us  unto  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Luke  xii.—  This  is  the  fmhfnl  and  pru- 
dent servant,  whom  the  Lord  placed  over  his  family, 
to  give  them  their  measure  of  wheat  in  due  season. 

P.  COMM.  Pr0f€gaf.----May  the  receiving  of 
this  sacrament,  and  the  intercession  of  blessed  N. 
the  Abbot,  protect  us,  O  Lord ;  that  we  may  both 
copy  after  the  virtues  of  his  life,  and  experience  the 
help  o(  his  intercession.  Thro'. 


[     493     J 

MASS  XVI,  Loqnebar,  of  a  Virgin  and  Martyr. 

WHATEVER  objections  human  policy  may  urge 
against  the  state  of  virginity,  it  is  nevertheless  per- 
fectly agreeable  to  the  Christian  system.  An  incarnate 
God  recommends  it  by  word  and  example  : — St.  Paul  be- 
stows the  greatest  encomiums  on  it  ; — and  in  every  age, 
those  who  preserved  their  virginity  were  always  esteemed 
the  noblest  portion  of  the  flock  of  Christ.  On  the  festivals 
therefore  of  these  illustrious  spouses  of  the  Son  of  God,  let 
us  beseech  him  to  grant  the  grace  of  perseverance  to  all 
such  as  by  vow  have  voluntarily  consecrated  themselves  to 
his  service  in  that  perfect  state,  as  well  as  for  that  purity  of 
soul,  which  is  essentially  necessary  tor  erery  onet  since 
without  it,  no  one  can  fee  God. 

1NTROIT.     Ps.  cxviii. 

I  Spake  of  thy  law  in  T  Oquebar  de  testimo- 
the  presence  of  kings,  i  j  niis  tuis  in  conspeo 
and  was  not  ashamed.  I  tu  regum,  et  non  confun- 
meJitated  on  thy  com-  debar;  et  meditabar  in 
mandments,  which  I  iov-  mandatis  tuis  quce  dilexi 
ed  exceedingly.  Ps.  Bles-  nimis. 
sed  are  the  undefiled  in  Ps.  Beat!  immaculati 
tbe  way,  who  walk  in  the  in  via,  qui  ambulant  in 
law  of  the  Lord.  lege  Domini. 

V.  Glory.  K.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dens,  qui. — O  God,  who  amongst 
other  miracles  of  thy  power,  hast  bestowed  the 
crown  of  martyrdom  even  on  the  weaker  sex:  mer- 
cifully grant  that  we,  wbo  solemnize  the  festival  of 
blessed  N.  thy  Virgin  and  Martyr,  may,  by  follow- 
ing her  example,  come  to  thee.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Ecclcs.  li.  i.  8. — I  will  give  glory  to 
thee,  O  Lord,  my  king,  and  I  will  praise  thee,  O 
God,  my  Saviour.  1  will  give  glory  to  thy  name': 
for  thou  hast  been  a  helper  and  protector  to  me, 
and  hast  preserved  my  body  from  destruction,  from 
the  snare  of  an  unjust  tongue,  and  from  the  lips  of 
It 


494  MASS  XVf.   LO.QUEBAR, 

them  that  forge  lies,  and  in  the  sight  of  them  that 
stood  by,  thou  hast  been  my  helper.  And  thou 
bast  delivered  me,  according  to  the  multitude  of  the 
mercy  of  thy  name,  from  the  roaring  Horn,  that 
were  ready  to  devour  me.  Out  of  the  hands  of  them 
that  sought  my  life,  and  from  the  gates  of  afflictions, 
which  compassed  me  about;  from  the  oppression 
of  the  flame  that  surrounded  me,  and  in  the  midst 
of  the  fire  t  was  not  burnt.  From  the  depth  of  the 
belly  of  hell,  and  from  an  unclean  tongue,  and  from 
lying  words,  front  an  unjust  king,  and  from  a  slan- 
derous tongue:  my  soul  shall  praise  the  Lord  even 
to  death,  because  thou  succourest  those  that  trust  in 
thee,  and  deliverest  them  from  the  hands  of  the 
Gentiles,  O  Lord  our  God. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv. — Thou  lovest  righteousness, 
and  hatest  iniquity.  V.  Therefore  hath  God  thy 
God,  anointed  thee  with  the  oil  of  gladness.  Alle- 
luia, Alleluia.  V.  Adducent ur  Regi  Virgincs  post 
earn  \  proximo  tf/us  ufferentar  tibi  in  latitia.  AlUtuia. 
F»  Virgins  shall  be  brought  in  her  retinue  to  the 
king :  her  relations  shall  be  presented  to  thee  with 
joy.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  inslead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT.  Ps.  xliv.  —  Veni  spunsa  C/trisli,  ac. 
eipc  cvronam,  c/iiam  tibi  Domhius  prirparuvit  in  ater- 
nutn:  pro  at  jus  amort  sanguinem.  tuum  fudi&ti. 
Come,  spouse  of  Christ,  receive  the  crown  which 
the  Lord  hath  prepared  for  thee  for  ever :  for  whose 
love  thou  didst  shed  thy  blood.  F,  Thou  lovedst 
righteousness,  and  hatedst  iniquity  :  therefore  hath 
God,  thy  God,  anointed  thee  with  the  oil  of  glad, 
ness  in  a  more  excellent  manner  than  thy  compani- 
ons. F.  In  thy  comeliness  and  beauty  go  on  with 
prosperity,  and  reign. 

C500pCi-     Matt.  xxv.  i.    13*  —  At  that  time  : 
Jems  spoke  tQ  hit  disciples  this  parable  :  The  king- 


OP   A    VIRGIN   AN1>   MARTYR.  495 

dom  of  heaven  is  like  to  ten  virgins,  who  taking  their 
lamps  went  out  to  meet  the  bridegroom  and  the 
bride.  And  five  of  them  were  foolish,  and  five  wise. 
But  the  five  foolish,  having  taken  their  lamps, 
did  not  take  oil  with  them  :  but  the  wise  took  oil  in 
their  vessels  with  the  lamps.  And  the  bridegroom 
tarrying,  they  all  slumbered  and  slept.  And  at  mid. 
night  there  was  a  cry  made:  Behold  the  bride- 
groom cometh,  go  ye  forth  to  meet  him.  Then  all 
those  virgins  arose  and  trimmed  their  lamps.  And 
the  foolish  said  to  the  wise:  Give  us  of  your  oil,  for 
our  lamps  are  gone  out*  The  wise  answered,  saying: 
Lest  perhaps  there  be  not  enough  for  us  and  for  you, 
go  you  rather  to  them  that  sell, and  buy  for  yourselves. 
Now  whilst  they  went  to  buy,  the  bridegroom  came  : 
and  they  that  were  ready,  went  in  with  him  to  the 
marriage,  and  the  door  was  shut.  But  at  last  came 
also  the  other  virgins,  saying:  Lord,  Lord,  open 
to  us.  But  he  answered,  saying  :  Amen,  I  say  to 
you,  I  know  you  not.  Watch  ye,  therefore,  because 
you  know  not  the  day  nor  the  hour. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xliv.— Virgins  shall  be  brought  in 
her  retinue  to  the  king:  her  relations  shall  be  pre- 
sented to  thee  with  joy  and  gladness  :  they  shall  be 
introduced  into  the  temple  to  the  Lord  the  King, 

SECRET,  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
bring  on  the  solemnity  of  B.  N%  thy  V.  and  M%  by 
whose  intercession  we  hope  to  be  delivered.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  cxviii.  —  Let  the  proud  be  con« 
founded  for  unjustly  persecuting  me:  but  1  will  keep 
thy  commandments  and  thy  ordinances,  that  I  my- 
self may  not  be  confounded. 

P.  COMM,  Aujcilietitur. — May  the  mysteries  we 
have  received,  O  Lord,  be  a  help  to  us,  and,  by 
the  intercession  of  blessed  N.  thy  Virgin  and  Martyr, 
cause  us  to  enjoy  her  continual  protection.  Thro'. 


.[     496     3 

MASS  XV!  [.  Me  expectaverunt,  of  the  same. 
1NTROLT.     Ps.  cxviii. 

SINNERS  have  lain  TV/I E  expectaverunt 
in  wait  for  me  to  -LYJL  peccatores,  ut  per- 
destroyme:  but  1  have  derent  me:  testimonia 
studied  thy  law,  O  Lord,  tua,  Domine,  intellexi* 
I  have  seen  the  end  of  Omnis  consummationis 
all  perfection  3  but  thy  vidi  finem  :  latum  man- 
law  hath  no  end,  Ps.  datum  tuum  nimjs. 
Blessed  are  the  undefiled  Ps.  Bead  immaculati 
in  the  way,  who  walk  in  in  via,  qui  ambulant  in 
the  law  of  the  Lord.  lege  Domine. 

V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria, 

CpLLECT.  Indulgentiam,—Let  blessed  N.  thy 
Virgin  and  Martyr,  O  Lord,  sue  for  our  pardon ; 
who  by  the  purity  of  her  life,  and  the  profession  of 
thy  virtue,  was  always  pleasing  to  thee.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Eccles.  li,  13.  17.— O  Lord,  my  God, 
thou  hast  exalted  my  dwelling-place  upon  the  earth, 
and  1  have  prayed  for  death  to  pass  away,  I  called 
upon  the  Lord  the  father  of  my  Lord,  that  he  would 
not  leave  me  in  the  day  of  my  trouble,  and  in  the 
time  of  the  proud,  without  help,  i  will  praise  thy 
name  continually,  and  will  praise  it  with  thanksgiv- 
ing, and  my  prayer  was  heard.  And  thou  hast 
saved  me  from  destruction,  and  hast  delivered  m« 
from  the  evil  time.  Therefore  will  I  give  thanks, 
and  praise  thee,  O  Lord  our  God. 

GRADUAL.  Ps.  xiv,— God  will  assist  her  with 
his  favourable  countenance  :  God  is  in  the  midst  of 
her,  she  shall  not  be  moved.  V.  A  swift-flowing 
river,  rejoiceth  the  city  of  God:  the  Most  High 
hath  sanctified  his  tabernacle.  Alleluia.  V.  H<cc 
est  Virgo  sapiens,  et  una  de  numero.prudentium*  Al- 
leluia. F.  This  is  a  wise  Virgin,  and  one  of  the 
of  the  prudent.  Alleluia, 


OF  MANY   VV.  AND  MM.  497 

Alter  Septuag.  instead  o/'Alleluia  and  V«  is  said 
TRACT,   Veni,  p.  494. 

d5oSpCl,    Matt.xm.  asitip.$ci* 

Ol'T'RRT.  Ps.  xliv.-- -Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips, 
therefore  hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever. 

SECRET,  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  the  of- 
ferings consecrated  to  thee,  and  by  the  merits  of 
blessed  N.  thy  Virgin  and  Martyr,  grant  they  may 
be  to  us  a  continual  support.  Thro'. 

COMM.     P*.  cxviii I  have  done  what  is  just 

and  right,  OLoru,  let  not  the  proud  calumniate 
me:  I  have  walked  upright  in  the  ways  of  thy  com- 
mandments: L  have  hated  every  evil  way. 

P.  COMM.     Dhimmuneru Being  plentifully 

fed  with  thy  divine  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord 
our  God,  that  by  partaking  of  them  thro'  the  inter- 
o--Mon  of  blessed  N.  thy  Virgin  and  Martyr,  we  may 
obtain  eternal  life.  Thio'. 

MASS  XVJIL*  Loquebar,  of  many  VV,  and  MM. 

Alt  as  in  £//r  XVI.  Mass,  p.  493,  except 
COLLECT.     Da  nobis.  —  Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  with  a  constant  devo- 
tion,  we  nvw   celebrate  the  victories  of  thy  holy 
Virgins  and  Martyrs  N.  and  N.  that  though  we  can- 
not  solemnize  them  as  we  ought,  we  may  seek  their 
prayers  with  all  due.  humility.     Thro'. 
KPIS TLK,    i  Cor.  viu«s  in p»  500. 
SECRET.      Look   down,   we  beseech  thee,   O 
Lord,  on  the  offerings  laid  on  thy  altar  on  this  feast 
of  thy   holy  Virgins  and  Martyrs  N.  and  N-  that  as 
hast    bestowed  glory   on  them  by  the  sacred 
•Ties,  so  thou  mayest  grant  us  pardon.  Thro'." 
P.  COMM.  Prt&ta  nouis — Grant  us,  we  beseech. 
.  O  Lord,  by   the   intercession   of  thy  Virgins 
>  receive  with  a  pure  mind'what  we 
,ve  with  our  mouths.     Thro'. 

'ft  3 


[    498    3 

MASS  XIX.  Dilexisti,  of  a  Virgin  only. 
1NTROIT.     Is.  xliv. 

n^HOU  hast  loved  jus-     lP\Ilexisti  justttiain  et 
•*•   tice  and  hated  iniqui-     \J  odisti  iniquitaterp: 
ty:  therefore  hath  God,     propterea  unxit  te  Deus, 
thy  God,   anointed  thee     Deus    tuus,   oleo  laetitiae 
\vith  the  oil  of  gladness,     prse  consortibus  tuis. 
above  thy  fellows.     Ps.         Ps.       Eructavit    cor 
My  heart  hath  uttered  a     meum  verbum  bonum  : 
good  word :   I   refer  my     dico    ego     opera    mea 
works  to  the  King.     F.     Regi. 
Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Exaudi. — Give  ear  to  us,  O  God 
our  Saviour,  that  as  we  celebrate  with  joy  the  so. 
lemity  of  blessed  N-  thy  Virgin,  so  we  may  im- 
prove in  the  affection  of  piety.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  x.  15.  xi.  i.  2.  —  Brethren-* 
Let  him  that  glorieth,  glory  in  the  Lord:  for  not 
he  that  commendeth  himself,  is  approved  :  but  he 
whom  God  commendeth.  (Chap,  xi.)  Would  to 
God  you  could  bear  with  some  little  of  my  folly  : 
but  do  bear  with  me.  For  I  am  jealous  of  you  with 
the  jealousy  of  God.  For  I  have  espoused  you  to 
one  husband,  that  I  may  present  you  as  a  chaste 
virgin  to  Christ. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv-- --In  thy  comeliness  and  beauty, 
go  on,  proceed  prosperously  and  reign.  V.  For 
thy  truth,  meekness,  and  righteousness,  shall  thy 
right  hand  also  lead  thee  on  wonderfully.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  V*  Adducent ur  Regi  Virgines  post  cam  : 
proximo  ejus  afferentur  tibi  in  latitia.  Alleluia. 
V.  Virgins  shalf  be  brought  in  her  retinue  to  the 
King:  her  relations  shall  be  presented  to  thee  with 
joy.  Alleluia. 
After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V-  is  said 

TRACT.     PJ.  xliv.— Audi9  filia,  et  tldt9  et  iw, 


A  VIRGIN  NOT  A  MAHTYR.  499 

uurem  tuum  :  quia  concupivit  Rtx  spec  tern  tuam. 
Hear,  O  daughtt r,  see,  and  be  attentive  ;  for  the 
King  is  taken  with  thy  beauty.  V.  All  the  rich  of 
the  people  shall  come  with  entreaties  before  thee  : 
the  daughters  of  kings  shall  honour  thee.  V-  Virgins 
shall  be  brought  in  her  retinue  to  the  King;  her  re- 
lations shall  be  presented  to  thee.  V.  They  shall  be 
intreduced  with  joy  and  gladness;  they  shall  be  in- 
troduced into  the  temple  of  the  King. 

d£>0£ptlj      Matt.  xxv.  as  in  p.  494. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xlv.—  The  daughters  of  kings 
honour  thee :  the  queen  was  on  thy  right  hand  in  a 
robe  of  gold,  with  a  variety  of  other  ornaments. 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings,  O  Lord,  of  thy 
devout  people,  be  acceptable  to  thee  in  honour  of 
thy  saints:  by  whose  merits  they  have  experienced 
help  in  their  aittictions.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Matt,  xxv, — The  five  wise  virgins  took 
oil  in  their  vessels  with  their  lamps:  and  at  midnight 
there  was  a  cry  made;  Behold!  the  bridegroom 
eometh  ;  go  ye  out  and  meet  Christ  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Sutiasti.— -Thou  hast  fed,  O  Lord, 
thy  family  with  these  sacred  oblations  :  ever  there- 
fore comfort  us  with  her  intercession,  whose  feast 
we  celebrate.  Thro'. 

MASS  XX.  Vultum  tuum,  of  the  same. 
1NTRO1T.     Ps.  xliv, 

ALL    the    rich    shall  \7Ultnm  tuum  depre- 

come  before  thee  V        cabuntur     omnes 

with  entreaties:    virgins  divites  plebis:    adducen. 

shall  be  brought  in  her  tur    Regi    virgmes    post 

retinue  to  the  king  :    her  earn,    pioximae   ejus  af- 

relations  shall    be    pre-  ferentur  tibi  in  laetitia  et 

senttd  to  thee  in  joy  and  exultatione. 

gladness.    jPj.  My  heart  Ps.  Eructavit  cor  me- 


500  MASS  xx.  VULTUM  TUUM, 

hath  uttered  a  good  word:     um  verbum  bonum  :  di«x> 
my  works   1  refer  to  the     c go  opera  mea  Regi. 
King.     V.  Glory.  '  V.   Gloria. 

COLLECT.  £jraudi.  —  Give  ear  to  us,  O  God 
our  Saviour,  that  as  we  celebrate  with  joy  the  so- 
lemnity of  blessed  N.  thy  Virgin,  so  we  may  im- 
prove in  the  affection  of  piety.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,    i  CV.  vii.  25.  34.— Brethren ;    Con- 
cerning   virgins,    I  have  no  commandment  of  the 
Lord  :  but  I  givt  counsel,  as  having  obtained  mercy 
of  the  Lord,   to  be  faithful.     I  think  therefore  that 
this  is  good  for  the  present  necessity,  for  a  man  so 
to  be.     Art  thou  bound   to  a  wife  ?  seek  not  to  be 
loosed-     Art  thou   loosed  from  a  wife?  seek  not  a 
wife.     But  if  thou  take  a  wife,  thou  hast  not  sinned. 
And  if  a  virgin   marry,  she  hath  not  sinned:  never- 
theless, such  shall  have  tribulation  of  the  flesh.    But 
1  spare  you.     This  therefore  1  say,  brethren  :  the 
time  is  short:   it  remaineth,   that  they  also  who  have 
wives,  be  as  if  they  had  none;  and  they  that  weep, 
as  though  they  wept  not  5  and  they  that  rejoice,  as  if 
they   rejoiced   not;    and   they  that  buy,  as  though 
they  possessed  not ;  and  they  that  use  this  world,  as 
if  they  used  it  not :  for  the  fashion  of  this  world  pas* 
seth  away     But  I  would  have  you  to  be  without  so- 
licitude,    He  that  is  without  a  wife,  is  solicitous  for 
the  tilings  that  belong  to  the  Lord,   how  he  may 
please  God.     But  he  that  is  with  a  wife,  i.s  solicitous 
for  the  things  of  the  world,  how  he  may  please  his 
wife;  and  he  is  divided.    And  the  unmarried  woman 
and  the  virgin  thinketh  on   the  things  of  the  Lord  : 
that  she  may  be  hoiy  both  in  body  and  spirit,   in 
Christ  [esusour  Lord. 

GRAD.  P.v.  xliv.  —  The  King  is  taken  with  thy 
beauty,  for  he  is  the  Lord  thy  God.  F.  Hear,  O 
daughter,  see  and  be  attentive.  Alleluia,  Alleluia- 
V.  "j/tfc  est  Virgo  sapiens,  et  una  de.  nutntro  pruden- 
ttum.  Alleluia.  V.  Tills  is  a  wise  virgin,  and  one 
of  the  number  of  the  prudent.  Alleluia, 


OF  A  VIRGIN  NOT  A  MARTYR.  $OT 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT,  Audijilia,  p.  498. 

(B00p0U  Matt.  xiii.  44.  52.  —  At  that  time  : 
Jesus  spake  to  his  disciples  this  parable  :  The 
kingdom  of  heaven  is  like  unto  a  treasure  hidden  in 
a  field.  Which  a  man  having  found,  hid  it,  and  for 
joy  thereof  goeth,  and  selleth  all  that  he  hath,  and 
bnyeth  thai  field.  Again  the  kingdom  of  heaven  is 
like  to  a  merchant  seeking  good  pearls.  Who  when 
he  had  found  one  pearl  of  great  price,  went  his  way, 
and  sold  all  that  he  had,  and  bought  it.  Again  the 
kingdom  of  heaven  is  like  to  a  net  cast  into  the  sea, 
and  gathering  together  all  kinds  of  fishes.  Which, 
when  it  was  filled,  they  drew  out,  and  sitting  by 
the  shore,  they  chose  out  the  good  into  vessels,  but 
the  bad  they  cast  forth.  So  shall  it  be  at  the  end  of 
the  world.  The  angels  shall  go  out,  and  shall  se- 
parate the  wicked  from  among  the  just.  And  shall 
cast  them  into  the  furnace  of  fire  ;  there  shall  be 
weeping  and  gnashing  of  teeth.  Have  ye  understood 
these  things?  They  say  to  him  ;  Yes.  He  said  un- 
to them ;  Therefore  every  scribe  instructed  in  the 
kingdom  of  heaven,  is  like  to  a  man  who  is  a 
householder,  who  bringeth  forth  out  of  his  treasure 
new  things  and  old. 

OFFERT,  Ps.  xJiv.— Virgins  shall  be  brought  in 
her  retinue  to  the  King  :  her-  relations  shall  be  pre- 
sented to  thee  with  joy  and  gladness  :  they  shall  be 
introduced  into  the  temple  to  the  Lord  the  King. 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings,  O  Lord,  of  thy 
Uovout  people  be  acceptable  to  trunj  in  honour  of 
thy  saints;  by  whose  merits  they  i:ave  experienced 
help  in  their  afflictions.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt.  xiii. — The  kingdom  of  heaven  is 
like  a  merchant  seeking  good  pearls  :  and  having 
found  one  of  great  value,  he  gave  all 'he  had,  and 
purchased  it. 


5°*  MASS  xxr.  cocNOvr, 

P.  COMM.  Satuisti.  —  Thou  hast  fed,  O  Lord, 
thy  family  with  these  sacred  oblations:  ever,  there- 
fore, comfort  us  with  her  intercession,  whose  feast 
we  celebrate.  Thro'. 

MASS  XXI.  Cognovi,  of  HOLY  WOMEN. 

HPHE  Church  has  decreed  honours,  not  only  to  those 
JL  who  have  sanctified  the  married  state  by  the  exercise 
of  the  virtues  of  a  profound  humility,  unweared  patience, 
and  purity  of  heart,  but  alfo  to  others,  who  after  an  ir- 
regular course  of  life,  became  so  highly  inflamed  with  the 
love  of  God,  as  to  be  rendered  almost  equal  to  virginsf 
Let  us  then  beg  of  Him,  thro'  the  intercession  ol  these 
Saints,  that  he  would  grant  us  the  grace  of  a  sincere  com- 
punction for  our  past  transgressions,  accompanied  by  such 
an  ardent  chaiity  as  covereth  a  multitude  of  sins* 

INTROIT.  Ps.  cxviii. 

T  knew,    O  Lord,  that     /^*Ognovi  Domine  quia 
thy    judgments    are     \ji    sequuasjudicia  tuaj 
just:      thy    truths    have     ei  in   veritate  tua  huinu 
humbled  me;  Pierce  my     liasti    me;     Confige   ti- 
flesh  with  thy  fear;   thy     more  tuo  carnes  meas: 
commandments        have    a  mandatis  tuis  timui. 
made  me  tremble.     Ps.        Ps.  Beati  immaculati 
Blessed  are  the  undefiled     in  via  :  qui  ambulant  in 
in  the  way;    who  walk     lege  Domini, 
in  the  law  of  the  Lord,  V.  Gloria. 

V.   Glory. 

COLLECT.  E-caudi.—Give  ear  to  us,  O  God 
our  Saviour*  that  as  we  celebrate  with  joy  the  so* 
lemnity  of  blessed  N.  so  we  may  improve  in  the  af- 
lection  of  true  piety.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Prov.  xxix.  10.  31.— Who  shall  find 
a  valiant  woman  ?  the  price  or  her  is  as  of  things 
brought  from  afar  off,  and  from  the  uttermost 
coasts.  The  heart  of  her  husband  trusteth  in  her, 
and  he  shall  have  no  need  of  spoils.  She  will  render 


OF    HOLY   WOMEN.  5°$ 

Mm  eood  and  not  evil,  all  the  clays  of  her  life.    She 
to*  sought  wool  and  flax,  and  haih  wrought  by  the 
SunS  of  her  hands.      She  is  like  the  merchant  s 
ship,  she  bringeth  her  bread  from  afar.     And  she 
hath  risen  in  the  night,  and  given  prey  to  her  house, 
hold,  and  victuals  to  her  maidens      She  hath  con- 
sideredafield,  and  bought  it;  with  the  fruit  of her 
hands  she  hath  planted  a  vineyard      She  hath  girded 
her  loins  with  strength,  and  hath  strengthened  her 
arm      She  hath  tasted  and  seen  that  her  traffic  is 
good-  her  lamp  shall  not  be  put  out  in  the  night. 
She  hath  put  out  her  hand  to  strong  things,  and  her 
Ingers  have  taken  hold  of  the  spindle.     She  hath 
opened  her  hand  to  the  needy,  and  stretched  out  her 
hands  to  the  poor.     She  shall  not  fear  for  her  house 
in  the  cold  of  snow,  for  all  her  domestics  are  cloatn- 
ed  with  double  garments.     She  hath  made  tor  her. 
selfcloathing  of  tapestry ;  fine  linen  and  purple  is 
her  covering.     Her  husband   is  honourable  in  the 
eates,  where  he  sitteth   among  the  senators  of  the 
land      She   made  fine  linen   and  sold   it,  and  de- 
Uver'ed  a  eirdle  to  the  Chananite.  Strength  and  beau- 
tv  are  her  cloathing,  and  she  shall  laugh  in  the  1; 
ter  day.     She  hath  opened  her  mouth  to  wisdom, 
and  the  law  of  clemency  is  on  her  tongue.  She  hat  li 
looked  well  to  the  paths  of  her  house,  and  hath  not 
eaten  her  bread  idle.     Her  children  rose  up,  and 
called  her  blessed;    her  husband,  and  he  praised 
her      Many  daughters  hath  gathered  together  riches : 
thou  hast  surpassed  them  all.     Favour  is  deceitful* 
and  beauty  is  vain :  the  woman   that  feareth  the 
Lord,  she  shall  be  praised.     Give  her  of  the  fruit  of 
her  hands,  and  let  her  works  praise  her  in  the  gates. 
GRAD.  Ps.  xliv.  —  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips: 
therefore  hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever,      V.  For 
thy  truth,    meekness,  and   righteousness,  shall  thy 
right  hand  lead  thee  on  wonderfully.    Allel.  Allel, 


504  ANNIVERSARY   MASS    OF  THE 

V.  Specie  ttia  et  pulchritudlne  tua  intemk,  prosper?, 
proccde,  et  rcgna.  Alleluia.  V.  In  thy  comeliness 
and  beauty  go  on,  proceed  prosperously,  and  reign. 
Alleluia. 

After  Sep  t  ,a£.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.    is  said  the 
TRACT,  Venii  p.  494. 

d503p0l,   Matt.  xiii.  as  in  p.  501. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xliv. — Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips, 
therefore  hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever  and  ever. 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings,  O  Lord,  of  thy 
devout  people,  be  acceptable  to  thee  in  honour  of 
thy  saints;  by  whose  merits  they  have  experienced 
help  in  their  afflictions,  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xliv.— Thou  lovedst  righteousness, 
and  hatedst  iniquity  :  therefore  hath  God,  thy  God, 
anointed  thee  with  the  oil  of  gladness  in  a  more  ex- 
cellent manner  than  thy  companions, 

P.  COMM.  Sat  last  i. — Thou  hast  fed,  O  Lord, 
thy  family  with  these  sacred  oblations ;  ever  there- 
fore comfort  us  with  her  intercession  whose  feast  we 
celebrate.  Thro'. 

ANNIVERSARY  MASS  of  the  DEDICATION 

of  a  CHURCH. 
INTROTT.     Gen.  xxviii. 

'HpIIlS    place  is  awful  !     HPErribilis  est  locus  iste! 
"r      it  is   the   house  of     A    hie  Dornus  Dei  esr, 
God,    the  giue  of  hea-     et   porta  coeli:  et  voca- 
ven:  and  it  shall  be  call-     bituraula  Dei. 
ed  the    palace  of  God.         Ps.   Quam  dilecta  ta- 
Ps.  How  lovely  are  thy     bernacula  tua,     Doming 
tabernacles,  O   Lord  of    virtutum!  Concupiscitet 
Hosts!    My  soul  pineth     deficit  anima  mea  in  atria 
after  the   courts  of  the     Domini. 
Lord.     V.  Glory.  K.  Gloria. 

COLLECT., Dem,  qid  nobis.— O.  God,  who  re- 


DEDICATION  OF  A  CHURCH.  505 

newest  every  year  the  day  of  the  consecration  of  this 
thy  holy  temple,  and  bringest  us  always  in  health  to 
the  celebrating  these  sacred  mysteries  :  hear  the 
prayers  ot  thy  people,  and  grant  that  whosoever 
shall  come  hither  to  ask.  any  blessing  ofthee,  may 
rejoice  in  obtaining  all  his  requests.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Rev.  xxi.  2.  5.— /rc  tlwte  days  :  I 
John  saw  the  holy  city,  the  new  Jerusalem  coming 
down  out  of  heaven  from  God,  prepared  as  a  bride 
adorned  for  her  husband.  And  I  heard  a  great  voice 
from  the  throne,  saying ;  Behold  the  tabernacle  of 
God  with  men,  and  he  will  dwell  with  them.  And 
they  shall  be  his  people:  and  God  himself  with 
them  shall  be  their  God.  And  God  shall  wipe 
away  all  tears  from  their  eyes :  and  death  shall  be 
no  more,  nor  mourning,  nor  crying,  nor  sorrow  shall 
be  any  more,  for  the  former  things  are  passed  away. 
And  he  that  sat  on  the  throne  said  :  Behold  I 
make  all  things  new. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxvi. — This  place  was  made  by 
God,  a  mystery  above  all  value:  it  is  without  re- 
proof. V.  O  God,  on  whom  choirs  of  angeis  at- 
tend, hear  the  prayers  of  thy  servants.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  V.  Adorabo  ad  templum  sanctum  tuumi 
ct  conjitebor  nomini  tno.  Alleluia.  V.  I  will  adore 
thee  in  thy  holy  temple,  and  I  will  praise  thy  name. 
Alleluia. 

Ajtcr  Septtia^.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 

TRACT,  Quic&ifidunt,  p.  189. 
C50#prl.  Luke  xix.  i.  10.—  At  that  time:. 
Jesus  entering  in,  he  walked  thro'  Jericho  :  And 
behold  there  was  a  man  named  Zacheus,  who  wns 
the  chief  of  the  publicans,  and  he  was  rich.  Aud 
he  sought  to  see  Jesus,  who  he  was, and  he  could  not 
for  the  crowd,  because  he  was  low  of  stature.  And 
running  before  he  climbed  up  into  a  sycamore-tree 
that  he  mi^ht  see  him  :  for  he  was  to  pass  that  way* 
U  u 


506  ANNIVERSARY  MASS  OF  THE,  &C. 

And  when  Jesus  was  come  to  the  place,  looking  up 
he  saw  him,  and  said  to  him:  Zacheus  make  haste 
and  come  down :  for  this  day  I  must  abide  in  thy 
house.  And  he  made  haste  and  came  down,  and 
received  him  with  joy.  And  when  all  saw  it,  they 
murmured,  saying;  that  he  was  gone  to  be  a  guest 
with  a  man  that  was  a  sinner.  But  Zacheus  stand- 
ing said  to  the  Lord:  Behold,  Lord,  the  half  of  my 
goods  I  give  to  the  poor;  and  if  I  have  wronged 
any  man  of  any  thing,  I  restore  him  four- fold,  Je- 
sus said  to  him  :  This  day  is  salvation  come  to  this 
house;  because  he  also  is  a  son  of  Abraham.  For 
the  Son  of  man  is  come  to  seek  and  to  save  that 
which  was  lost.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  i  Citron,  xxix.-— Lord  God,  in  the 
simplicity  of  my  heart  have  I  joyfully  offered  all 
these  things:  and  I  have  seen  with  great  joy  thy 
people,  which  are  here  present.  O  God  of  Israel, 
preserve  them  for  ever*'/*  this  disposition.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
our  petition,  that  whilst  we  offer  thee  these  our 
vows,  we  may,  by  thy  help,  obtain  an  eternal 
reward.  Thro', 

COMM.  Matt,  xxi.— My  house  shall  be  called 
the  house  of  prayer,  saith  the  Lord ;  in  it  whosoever 
asketh  receiveth  ;  and  he  who  seeketh,  findeth  ;  and 
the  door  shall  be  opened  to  him  that  knocketh. 

P,  COMM.  .Dews,  qui  de  vims. — O  God,  who, 
put  of  living  and  choice  stones,  preparest  to  thy  ma- 
jesty  an  eternal  abode,  help  thy  people  at  their 
prayers  ;  that  as  thy  Church  is  corporally,  so  it  may 
be  spiritually  increased.  Thro'. 


C    507    ] 
VOTIVE  MASSES  of  the  B.  V.  MARY. 


From  CANDLEMAS  to  ADVENT. 
INTROIT. 

HAIL,  Holy  Mother,  O  ALVE,  Sancta Parens, 
who  didst  bring  O  enixa  puerpera  Re. 
forth  the  King  who  reigns  gem,  qui  coelum  terrain* 
over  heaven  and  earth  que  regit  in  ssecula  sse« 
for  evermore.  Ps,  My  culorum. 
heart  hath  uttered  good  Ps.  Eructavit  cor  meum 
tidings:  I  address  my  verbum  bonum :  dico 
works  to  the  King.  ego  opera  mea  Regi. 

V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Concede  rcos,— Grant,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  we  thy  servants  may  enjoy  con- 
stant health  of  body  and  mind,  and  by  the  glorious 
intercession  of  blessed  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin,  be  de- 
livered from  all  temporal  afflictions,  and  come  to 
those  joys  that  are  eternal.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Eccles.  xxiv.  14, 1 6.— From  the  begin- 
ning, and  before  the  world,  was  I  created,  and  unto 
the  world  to  come  I  shall  not  cease  to  be,  and  in  the 
holy  dwelling  place  have  I  ministered  before  him. 
And  so  was  I  established  in  Sion,  and  in  the  holy 
city  likewise  I  rested,  and  my  power  was  in  Jerusa- 
lem. And  I  took  root  in  an  honourable  people, 
and  in  the  portion  of  my  God  his  inheritance,  and 
my  abode  is  in  the  full  assembly  o(  saints. 

GRAB.  Thou  art  blessed,  and  worthy  of  our 
respects,  OMary,  the  Virgin,  who,  without  prejudice 
to  thy  virginity,  didst  become  the  mother  of  the 
Saviour.  V.  O  Virgin-mother  of  God!  he  whom 
the  whole  world  cannot  contain,  became  man,  and 
was  shut  up  in  thy  womb.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V. 
Virgo  Jesse  fluruit ;  virgo  Deum  et  hominem  genuit : 
pacem  Dem  reddidit,  in  se  reconcilians,  into, 
Uu  2 


508         VOTIVE  MASSES  OF  THE  B*.  V.  MARY. 

Alleluia.     V.  A  sucker  of  Jesse  hath  budded  :  a  Vir- 
gin hath  brought  forth  him,  who  is  God  and  man; 
God  hath  restored   peace   by  reconciling  in  his  per- 
son the  highesf  things  with  the  lowest.  Alleluia.' 
After  Septuag,  instead  of  Alleluia  andV.  is  said 

TRACT,  Gaude,  p  510. 
(IBOgpeU  Luke  xi.  27.  28.  —  At  that  time; 
Whilst  Jesus  spoke  to  the  multitude:  A 'certain  woman 
from  the  crowd  lilting  up  her  voice  said  to  him : 
Blessed  is  the  womb  that  bore  thee,  and  the  paps 
that  gave  thee.suck  :  but  he  said;  Yea  rather,  bles- 
sed are  they  who  hear  the  word  of  God  and  ke^p  it. 

From  EASTER  to  PENTECOST. 
(B00P01+  John  xix.  25.  27.— <4f  that  time: 
There  stood  by  the  cross  of  Jesus,  his  mother,  and 
his  mother's  sister,  Mary  of  Cleophas,  and  Mary 
Magdalen.  When  Jesus  therefore  had  seen  his  mo- 
ther  and  the  disciple  standing,  whom  he  loved,  he 
said^to  his  mother:  Woman,  behold  thy  son,  After 
that,  he  saith  to  the  disciple  :  Behold  thy  mother. 
And  from  that  hour  the  disciple  took  her  to  his 
own  home* 

OFFERT.  From  CANDLEMAS  to  EASTER. 
Thou  art  truly  happy,  O  sacred  Virgin  Mary,  and 
most  worthy  of  praise  :  for  out   of  thee  arose  the 
Sun  of  righteousness,  Christ  our  God. 
OFFERT     From  EASTER  to  PENTECOST. 
Blessed  art  thou,  O  Virgin  Mary,  who  didst  bear 
the  Creator  uf  all  things :  thou  didst  bring  forth  him, 
who  made  thee,  and   remainest  a  Virgin  for  ever. 
Alleluia. 

OFFERT.  From  PENTECOST  to  ADVENT. 
Hail  Mary,  full  of  grace;  the  Lord  is  with  thee  ; 
blessed  art  thou  amongst  women :  and  blessed  is  the 
fruit  of  thy  womb. 

SECRET.*  May,  O  Lord,  by  thy  own  mercy,  and 
the  intercession  of  blessed  Mary,  evej  a  Virgin,  this 


VOTIVE  MASSES  OF  THE   B.  V.  MARY.         $09 

oblation  procure  us  peace*  and  happiness  both  in 
this  life,  and  in  that  which  is  to  come.    Thro'. 

COMM.  Blessed  is  the  womb  of  Marv,  the  Vir« 
gin  which  bore  the  Son  of  the  eternal  Father. 

P.  COMM.  Sumptis. — Having  received,  O  Lord, 
what  is  to  advance  our  salvation ;  grant  we  may  al- 
ways be  protected  b)  the  patronage  of  blessed  Mary, 
ever  a  Virgin,  in  whose  honour  we  have  offered 
this  sacrifice  to  thy  Majesty.  Thro1. 
{£f»  When  ft  Votive  Mass  of  the  B.  V.  is  said  on  Sa* 

turday,  t{ie  II.  COLLECT,  &c.  arc  as  below.  •  The 

Jll.  cither  Ecclesife,  or  Deus  omnium,  p.  50. 

II.  COLLECT.  Deus,  qui  cor  da. — OGod,  who 
by  the  light  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  hast  instructed  the 
hearts  of  the  faithful:  grant,  that  by  the  direction  of 
the  same  Holy  Spirit,  we  may  relish  what  is- right, 
and  always  enjoy  his  consolation  Thro'.- 

II.  SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings 
we  have  made :  and  cleanse  our  hearts  by  the  fire  of 
the  Holy  Ghost.  Thro'. 

II.  P.  COMM.  Sancti  Spiritus,— May  the  pour- 
ing forth  of  thy  Holy  Spirit,  O  Lord,  cleanse  our 
hearts,  and  make  them  faithful  by  his  inv.  ard  dew 
falling  on  them.  Thro'. 

From  ADVENT  to  CHRISTMAS. 

Introit,  Offertory,  and  Communion,  as  on  the  IV, 
Sunday  of  Advent,   p.  68.     Collect,  Secret  and 
P.  Comm,  are  thell.  Collect,  &c.  on  the  first  Sun- 
day, p.  50,  &c.     Lesson   and  Gospel  as  on  the 
Annunciation,  the  2$\\\  of  March. 
GRAD      Ps.  xxxiii. — Lift  up  your  gates,  O  ye 
princes,  and  be  ye  lifted  up,  ()  ye  eternal  gates,  and 
the  King  of  glory  shall  enter.     V.  Who  shall  go  up 
to  the  mounu:in  of  the  Lord,  or  who  shall  dwell  in 
bis  holy  place  ?  He  whose  hands  are  innocent,  and 
'itart  is  cjiean.     Alleluia,  Alleluia*    T.  Hail 
U  u  3 


p«  MASSES  FOR  THE  DEAD. 

Mary,  full  of  grace,  the  Lord  is  with  thee  :  blessed 
art  thou  amongst  women.     Alleluia. 

From  CHRISTMAS  to  CANDLEMAS. 

INTROIT.    Vultum  tuum.  p.  499. 
.Collect,  Secret,  andP.  Comm.  as  on  ^CIRCUM- 
CISION, pp.88,  89.  Epistle,  Titus  m.  and  Gospel, 
Lukeu.  as  in  p.  75. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv. — Thou  art  beautiful  among  the 
sons  of  men  :  grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips.  V.  My 
mouth  hath  uttered  good  tidings :  I  address  my 
works  to  the  King ;  my  tongue  is  as  the  pen  of  a 
scribe  that  writeth  swiftly.  Allel.  Allel.  V.  After 
child-birth  thou  remainedst  still  a  pure  Virgin  ;  O 
Mother  of  God  intercede  for  us.  Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT.   Gaude,  Maria,  Virgo,  cunctas  h&reses 
sola  intertwist i.      Rejoice,    O  Virgin  Mary,  thou 
alone  hast  destroyed  ail  heresies.     V-  Who  didst  he- 
lieve  the  words  of  Gabriel  the  archangel.    V.  Whilst 
a  Virgin,  thou  didst  bring  forth  him  that  was  God 
and  man;  and  after  child-birth  didst  remain  a  pure 
Virgin.     V.  O  Mother  of  God,  intercede  for  us. 
OFFERT.     Thou  art  truly  happy,  as  p.  508. 
COMM.  Blessed  is  kthe  womb  of  Mary  the  Vir- 
gin, which  bore  the  Son  of  the  eternal  Father. 

MASS  for  the  DEAD. 

On  the.  Day  of  Decease  or  Burial. 
INTROIT.    Ps.  Ixiv. 

GRANT  them  eternal  T>Equiem  aeternam 
rest,  ()  Lord  ;  and  A\  dona  eis,  Domine  j 
let  perpetual  light  shine  et  lux  perpetua  luceat 
on  them.  Ps.  A  hymn  eis. 
becometh  thee,  O  Lord,  Ps,  Te  decet  hymn  us, 
uiSion;  and  a  vow  shall  Deus,  in  Sionj  et  tibi 


MASSES  FOR  THE  DEAD.  511 

be  paid  thee  in  Jerusa-  reddetur  votum  in  Jem- 
lem:  bear  my  prayer:  salem :  exaudi  oratio- 
all  flesh  snail  come  to  nem  meam  ;  ad  te  omnis 
thee  caro  veniet- 

Grant  them,  &c.  to  Pi.  Requiem,  &c.  usq.  ad  I  s. 
COILECT.  Deus,  n/i.— O  God,  whose  pro- 
perty it  is  always  to  have  mercy  and  to  spare  we 
humbly  present  our  prayers  to  thee  in  behalf  of  the 
soul  of  thy  servant  N.  which  thou  hast  thi»  day 
called  out  of  the  world:  beseeching  thee  not  to  de- 
liver it  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  nor  to  tomtit 
for  ever ;  but  command  it  to  be  received  by  the  holy 
angels,  and  to  be  carried  into  paradise  5  that  as  i 
believed  and  hoped  in  thee,  it  may  he  delivered 
from  the  pains  of  hell,  find  inherit  everlasting  lite 

EPISTLE,  i  Thest.  iv.  12.  17.—- B/«?f/irt/i:  \Ve 
will  not  have  you  ignorant  concerning  them  that  are 
asleep,  that  you  be  not  sorrowful,  even  as  others 
who  have  no  hope.  For  if  we  believe  that  Jesus  died 
and  rose  again,  even  so  them  who  have  slept  through 
Jesus  will  God  bring  with  him.  For  this  we  say  un- 
to  you  in  the  wordof  the  Lord,  that  wewho  are  alive, 

who  remain  unto  the  coming  of  the  Lord,  shall  not 
prevent  them  who  have  slept.  For  the  Lord  himseU 
shall  come  down  from  heaven  with  command- 
ment:  and  with  the  voice  of  an  archangel,  and  witn 
the  trumpet  of  God :  and  the  dead  who  are  in 
Christ,  shall  rise  first.  Then  we  who  are  alive,  who 
are  left,  shall  be  taken  up  together  with  them  in  the 
clouds  to  meet  Christ,  into  the  air,  and  so  shall  we 
be  always  with  the  Lord.  Wherefore  comfort  ye 
one  another  with  these  words. 

GRADUAL.  Requiem  atcrnam  dona  as,  Vorninc, 

*      et  luxperpetua  luceat  cis.      V.  Ps.  cxi.    Inn&mortA 

etcrna  crit  jus  tun  :  ab   audit  ionc  mala  -non  timeou*-- 

Grant  them  eternal  rest,  O  Lord,  and  let  perpetual 

light  shine  on  them.      T.    The    memory  ef  the 


$12  MASSES  FOR  THE  DEAD. 

righteous  man  shall  remain  forever;  he  shall  not 
fear  a  bad  report. 

TRACT.  Absolve,  Dotninc,  animas  omnium  fide- 
Hum  defunctorum  ub  vmni  vinculo  delictorum.  V.  Et 
gratia  tua  itlis^succurente,  merecnitur  evader  e  judi* 
cium  uliionis.  V.  Et  lucis  aterna  bcatitudine  perfrui. 
—Release,  O  Lord,  the  souls  of  all  the  faithful  de- 
parted from  the  bonds  of  their  sins.  V.  And  by  the 
assistance  of  thy  grace  may  they  escape  the  sentence 
of  condemnation.  lr.  And  enjoy  the  bliss  of  eter- 
nal light 

The  SEQUENCE  or  PROSE. 


npHE  day  of  wrath,  that 
•*•     dreadful  day 
Shall  the  whole  world  in 

ashes  lay, 
As  David  and  the  Sybils 

say. 
What  horror  will  invade 

the  mind, 
When  the  strict  Judge, 

who  would  be  kind, 
Shall    have    few    venial 

faults  to  find  ! 
The  last  loud  trumpet's 

wond'rous  sound 
Must  thro*   the  rending 

tombs  rebound, 
And    wake    the  nations 

under  ground. 
Nature  and  death  shall 

with  surprise 
Behold  the  pale  offender 

rise  ! 
And  view  the  Judge  with 

conscious  eyes. 


S  irse,  dies  ilia 
Solvet  sseclum  in  favilla: 
Teste  David  cum  Sybilla. 

Quantns   tremor  est  fu- 

turus, 
Quando  Judex   est  ven- 

turus, 
Cuncta  stricte  discussu- 

rus! 
Tuba    mi  rum     spargens 

sonum 
Per  sepulchra  regionum, 

Coget  omnes  ante  thro- 

num. 
Mors  stupebit,  et  natu- 

ra, 
Cum  resurget  creatura, 

Judicanti  responsura. 


Then  shall  with  universal 

dread 
The  sacred  mystic  book 

be  read,  . 
To  try  the  living  and  the 

dead. 
The    Judge  ascends   his 

awful  throne, 
He  makes  each  secret  sin 

be  known, 

And  all  with  shame  con- 
fess their  own. 
O  then  I     what    int'rest 

shall  I  make, 
To  save  my  last  impor- 
tant stake, 
When  the  most  just  have 

cause  to  quake  ? 
Thou  mighty  formidable 

King ! 

Thou  mercy's  unexhaust- 
ed spring  I 
Some    comfortable  pity 

bring. 

Forget  not  what  my  ran- 
som cost, 

Nor  let  my  dear-bought 

soul  be  lost,          [tost. 

In  storms  of  guilty  terror 

Thou,  who  for  me  didst 

feel  such  pain, 
Whose    precious  .blood 

the  cross  did  stain  ; 
Let  not  those  agonies  be 

vain. 
Thou,  whom    avenging 

pow'rs  obey, 
Cancel    my     debt     (too 
great  to  pay) 


MASSES  FOR  THE  DEAD.  5*3 

Liber    scriptus    profere- 

tur, 
In  quo  totum  continetur, 


Unde  mundus  judicetur. 
Judex  ergo  cum  sedebitr 

Qnidquid  latet,  appare- 

bit: 
Nil  inultum  remanebiu 

Quid    sum    miser,  tune 

dicturus, 
Quern  patronum  rogatu- 

rus, 
Cum  vix  Justus  sit  secu- 

rus? 
Rex  tremendae  majesta- 

tis ! 
Qui      salvandos     salvas 

gratis, 
Salva  me  fons  pietatis. 

Recordare  Jesu  pie, 

Quod    sum    causa    tuse 

vise, 

Ne  me  perdas  ilia  die. 
Qnaerens  me,  sedisti  las* 

sus  ; 
Redemisti*  crucem   pas. 

sus: 
Tantus    labor    non     sit 

cassus. 
Juste  Judex  ultionis, 

Donum  fac  remissiouis 


5*4               MASSES  FOR  THE  DEAD. 

Before  the  sad  accounting 

Ante  diem  r&tionis. 

day. 

Surrounded  with  amaz- 

Ingemisco  tanquam  re* 

ing  fears  3  * 

us  : 

Whose    load    my    soul 

Culpa  rubet  vultus  meus: 

with  anguish  bears  ; 

I  sigh,  1  weep:    accept 

Supplicant!  parce,  Deus. 

my  tears. 

Thou,  who  wast  mov'd 

Qui  Mariam  absolvisti, 

with  Mary's  grief, 

And  by  absolving  of  the 

Et  latronem  exaudisti. 

thief, 

Hast  given  me  hope,  now 

Mihi  quoque  spem  de- 

give  relief. 

disti. 

Reject  not  my  unworthy 

Preces    meae    non    sunt 

prayer, 

digne  : 

Preserve    me   from    the 

Sed    tu    bonus   fac  be- 

dangerous  snare, 

nigne, 

Which  death  and  gaping 

Ne  perenni  cremer  igne. 

hell  prepare. 

Give  my  exalted  soul  a 

Inter  oves  locum  praesta, 

place 

Among  the  chosen  right- 

Et  ab  hsedis  me  seques- 

hand race, 

tra, 

The  sous  of  God,  and 

Statuens  in  parte  dextra. 

heirs  of  grace. 

From  that  insatiate  abyss, 

Confutatis  maledictis. 

Where     flames    devour, 

Flammisacribus  addictis, 

and  serpents  hiss, 

Promote  me  to  thy  seat  of 

Voca  me  cumbenedictis. 

bliss. 

Prostrate,     my    contrite 

Oro  supplex  etacclinis, 

heart  I  rend, 

My  God,  my  Father,  and 

Cor  contritum  quasi  ci- 

my  friend  !          [end. 

nis, 

Do  not  forsake  me  in  my 

Gerecuram  mei  finis. 

Well     may    they    curse 

Lacrymosa  dies  ilia! 

their  second  birth, 

MASSES   FOR  THE  DEAD. 


Qua  resurget  ex  fa  villa 
Judicandus  homo  reus. 


Who  rise  to  a  surviving 

death. 
Thou    great  Creator  of    Huic  ergo  parce  Deus : 

mankind, 
Let  guilty  man  compass-     Pie  Jesu  Domine,  dona 

sion  find.     Amen.  eis  requiem.     Amen. 

(l£>00ptl*  John  xi.  21.  28. — At  that  time: 
Martha  said  to  Jesus:  Lord,  if  thou  hadst  been 
here,  my  brother  had  not  died.  But  now  also  I 
know  that  whatsoever  thou  wilt  ask  of  God,  God 
will  give  it  thee.  Jesus  saith  to  her:  Thy  brother 
shall  rise  again.  Martha  saith  to  him :  I  know  that 
he  shall  rise  again  in  the  resurrection  at  the  last  day. 
Jesus  said  to  her :  1  am  the  resurrection  and  the  life; 
he  that  believeth  in  me,  although  he  be  dead,  shall 
live.  And  every  one  that  liveth,  and  believeth  in 
me,  shall  not  die  for  ever.  Believest  thou  this? 
She  saith  to  him;  Yea,  Lord,  I  have  believed  that 
thou  art  Christ  the  Son  of  the  living  God,  who  art 
come  into  this  world. 

OFFERTORY. 

Lord  Jesus  Christ,  Domine  Jesu  Christe, 
King  of  Glory,  deliver  Rex  glorise,  libera  ani- 


the  souls  of  all  the  faith- 
ful   departed    from    the 
flames  of  hell,   and  from 
the    deep    pit.     Deliver 
them    from    the    lion's 
mouth,  lest  hell  swallow 
them,  lest  they  fall  into 
darkness:    and    let    the 
standard-bearer,  St.  Mi- 
chael,   bring  them   into 
thy  holy  light:    *  Which 
thou   promisedst  of  old 
to  Abraham  and  his  pos- 
terity.  V.  We  offer  thee, 
O  Lord,    a  sacrifice  of 


mas    omnium     fidelium 
defunctorum     de    poenis 
inferni,    et  de  profundo 
lacu ;  libera   eos  de  ore 
leonis,  ne  absorbeal  eas 
tartarus,  necadant  in  ob- 
scurum;  sed  signifer sane- 
tits  Michael,  reprsesentet 
eas   in   lucem   sanctam  ; 
*  Quam     olim    A  bra  has 
promisisti,  et  semini  ejiis. 
V.  Hostias  et  preces  tibi, 
Domine,     laudis    orTeri- 
mus:   tu  suscipe  pro  anU 
mabus  illris,  quarum  ho* 


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praise  and  prayers;  ac-  die  memoriam  facimus  i 
cept  them  hi  behalf  of  fac  eas,  Domine,  de 
the  souls  we  com  memo-  morte  transire  ad  vi- 
rate  this  day:  and  let  tarn.  *  Quam  olim,  &c. 
them  pass  from  death  to  usq*  ad  V. 
life.  *Which,  &c.  to  V. 

SECRET.  Have  mercy,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  on  the  soul  of  thy  servant  N.  for  which  we 
offer  this  victim  of  praise,  humbly  beseeching  thy 
majesvy,  that  by  this  propitiatory  sacrifice  he  [or  she] 
may  arrive  at  eternal  rest.  Thro'. 
COMMUNION, 

Let  eternal  light  shine  Lux  seterna  luceat  eis, 
on  them,  O  Lord,  *with  Domine,  *  cum  sanctis 
thy  saints  for  ever:  for  tuis  in  stternum  :  quia 
thou  art  merciful.  V.  plus  es.  V.  Requiem 
Grant  them,  O  Lord,  aeiernam  dona  eis,  Do- 
eternal  rest:  and  let  per-  mine:  et  lux  perpetua 
petual  light  shine  on  luceat  eis.  *  Cum  sane- 
them.  *With  to  V.  tis,  &c.  usq.  ad  V. 

P,  COMM.     Prasta. — Grant,   we  beseech  thee, 

O   Almighty  God,    that  the  soul  of   thy  servant, 

.\yhich  this  day  hath  departed  this  life,  being  purified 

and  freed  from  sin  by  this  sacrifice,  may  obtain  both 

forgiveness  and  eternal  rest,     Thro*. 

On  the  3d,  7th,  or  y>\\\  day  after  decease,  the  whole 
of  the  for?  going  Mass  is  said,  except 

COLLECT.  Qutfsumus.  —  Admit,  we  beseecli 
thee,  O  Lord,  the  soul  of  thy  servant  N.  (the  third, 
seventh,  or  thirtieth  day)  of  whose  decease  we  com- 
memorate, into  the  fellowship  of  thy  saints,  and  re. 
fresh  it  with  the  perpetual  dew  of  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  on  the  offerings  we  make  for  the 
soul  of  thy  servant  N.  that  beinj*  purified  by  these 
heavenly  mysteries,  it  may  find  rest  in  thy  mercy, 
Thro'. 


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P.  COMM  SuscLpe.— Receive,  O  Lord,  our  pray- 
ers  in  behalf  of  the  soul  of  thy  servant  N.  that  if  any 
stains  of  the  corruptions  of  this  world  still  stick  to 
it,  they  may  be  washed  away  by  thy  forgiving 

meicy.     Thro*. 

ANNIVERSARY  MASS  ./or  the  DEAD. 
All  as  on  the  day  of  the  decease  or  burial,  p.   510, 

except 

COLLECT.  Dens  indulgent iarum. — O  God,  the 
Lord  of  mercy,  give  to  the  soul  [souls]  of  thy  ser- 
vant [servants']  whose  anniversary  we  commemorate, 
a  place  of  comfort,  a  happy  rest,  and  the  light  of 
glory.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  2  Mack.  xii.  43/46.' —  In  those  days  ; 
]udas  the  valiant  commander  having  made  a  gather- 
in;:,  lie  sent  twelve  thousand  drachmas  of  silver  to 
Jerusalem,  for  sacrifice  to  be  offered  for  the  ^ns  of 
the  dead ;  thinking  well  and  religiously  concerning 
the  resurrection.  (For  if  he  hail  not  hoped  that 
they  that  were  slain  should  rise  again,  it  would 
have  seemed  superfluous  and  vain  to  pray  for  the 
dead.)  And  because  he  considered  that  they  who 
had  fallen  asleep  with  godliness,  had  great  grace  laid 
up  for  them.  It  is  therefore  a  wholesome  and  holy 
thought  to  pray  for  the  dead,  that  they  may  be  Icosed 
from  sins. 

(1503pCl«.      John  vi.   37.  49.*—^   that    time'* 
Jesus  said  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jews  :    All  that   th  e 
Father  giveth  me,  shalicometo  me;  and  him  that 
cometh  to  me,  I  will  not  cast  out.     Because  I  came 
down  from  heaven,  not  to  do  my  own  will,   but  the 
will  of  him  that  sent  me-     Now  this  is  the  will. of 
the  Father  who  sent  me  ;    that  of  all  that  he  hath 
given  me,  1  should  lose  nothing,  but  should  rai.e  it 
up  again  in  the  last  day.     And  this  is  the  will  of  my 
Father  that  sent  me;  that    every  one  who  seetli 
the  Son,  and  believeth  in  him,  may  have  life  ever- 
lasting, and  L  shall  raise  him  up  in.  the  last  day. 
X  x 


5!#  MASSES  FOR  THE  DEAD. 

SECRET.  ,  Favourably  hear,  O  Lord,  our  hum- 
Lie  prayers  in  behalf  of  the  soul  [souls']  of  thy  ser- 
vant [servants]  the  anniversary  of  whose  death  is 
this  day,  for  whom  we  offer  up  this  sacrifice  of 
praise:  that  thou  mayest  vouchsafe  to  admit  it 
[them']  to  the  fellowship  of  thy  saints. 

P.  COiMM.  Pr^f/.. -Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  that  the  soul  [souk]  of  thy  servant  [sen-ants'] 
the  anniversary  of  whose  death  we  commemorate, 
being  purified  by  this  sacrifice,  may  obtain  both 
pardon  and  eternal  rest.  Thro*. 

The  COMMON  MASS  for  the  DEAD. 

All  as  on  the  dvy  of  Decease,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus,  gui,  for  Bishops  or  Priests. 

OGod,  by  whose  favour  thy  servants  were 
raised  to  the -dignity  of  Bishops  [or  Priests] 
and  thus  honoured  with  the  Apostolical  functions: 
grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  they  may  be  admitted 
to  the  eternal  fellowship  of  thy  Apostles  in  hea- 
ven. Thro'. 

For  Brethren,  Friends,  and  Benefactors. 

Deus  Vcnife.  O  God,  the  author  of  mercy,  and 
Jover  of  the  salvation  of  mankind  3  we  address  thy 
clemency  in  behalf  of  our  brethren,  relations  and 
benefactors,  who  are  departed  this  life,  that  by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  Mary,  ever  a,Virgin,  and  of  all 
thy  saints,  thou  wouldst  receive  them  into  the  enjoy- 
ment of  eternal  happiness.  Thro'. 

For  all  the  Faithful  departed. 

Tiddiuw. — O  God,  the  Creator  and  Redeemer  of 
all  the  faithful,  give  to  the  souls  of  thy  servants  de- 
parted the  remission  of  their  sins:  that,  through  the 
help  of  pious  supplications,  they  may  obtain  the 
pardon  they  have  always  desired.  Who  livest.  • 

LESSON.  Rev.  xiv.  13. — In  those  days:  I  heard 
a  voice  from  heaven,  saying  to  me  :  Blessed  are  the 
dead  who  die  iii  the  Lord.  from  henceforth  nowa 


MASSES    FOR   THE    DEAD.  519 

with  the  Spirit,  that  they  may  rest  from  their  la. 
bours :  for  their  works  follow  them. 

C500p0l4  John  vu  51.  55. —  -4J  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  the  multitude  of  tke  Jews:  I  am  the 
living  bread  which  came  down  from  heaven.  If  any 
man  eat  of  this  bread,  he  shall  live  for  ever:  and  the 
bread  that  1  will  give,  fs  my  flesh  for  the  life  of  the 
world.  The  Jews  therefore  strove  among  them, 
selves,  saying:  How  can  this  man  give  us  his  flesh  to 
eat?  Then  Jesus  said  to  them:  Amen,  amen  I  say 
unto  you:  Except  you  eat  the  flesh  of  the  Son  of 
Man,  and  drink  his  blood,  you  shall  not  have  life 
in  you.  He  that  eatetii  my  flesh,  and  drinlceth  my 
blood,  hath  everlasting  life  :  and  I  will  raise  him  up 
in  the  last  day. 

SECRET,    for  Bishops  or  Priests. 

Accept,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  the  sacrifice 
we  offer  for  ihe  souls  of  thy  servants,  Bishops  [or 
Priests]  that  those  whom  in  this  life  thou  didst  ho- 
nour  with  the  espiscopal  [or  priestly]  dignity,  thou 
mayest  join  to  the  fellowship  of  thy  siiints  in  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.  Thro'. 

For  Brethren,  Friends  and  Benefactors. 

O  God,  whose  mercy  is  infinite,  graciously  hear 
the  prayers  which  we  thy  humble  servants  offer  thee : 
and  grant  to  the  souls  of  our  Brethren,  Friends,  and 
Benefactors,  on  whom  thou  didst  bestow  the  grace 
to  confess  thy  name,  the  pardon  of  all  their  sins  by 
these  mysteries  of  our  salvation.  Thro'. 
For  all  the  Faithful  departed. 

Look  down  favourably,  we  beseech  thee,  OLord, 
on  the  sacrifice  we  offer  for  the  souls  of  thy  servants: 
that  as  thou  wast  pleased  to  bestow  on  them  the 
merit  of  Christian  faith,  thou  wouldst  also  grant  them 
the  reward  thereof.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Prosit.     For  Bishops,  4c. 

Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  by  thy  merciful 

X  X  2, 


j2*  MASSE?  FOR  THE  DEAD. 

clemency,  which  we  have  implored  on  behalf  of  the 
souls  of  thy  servants,  Bishops  [or  Priests]  that  by 
thy  mercy  they  may  eternally  enjoy  thy  presence,  in 
whom  they  have  hoped  and  belreved.  Thro'. 

For  Brethren,  Friends,  and  Benefactors.  Presta. 
-—Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  and  merci- 
ciful  God,  that  the  souls  of  our  Brethren,  Friends, 
and  Benefactors,  for  whom  we  have  offered  this 
sacrifice  to  thy  Majesty,  being,  by  virtue  of  these 
mysteries,  purified  from  all  sin,  may,  through  thy 
Iftercy,  receive  the  blessing  of  perpetual  light.Thro\ 

For  All  the  Faithful  departed.  Animabus. — Grant, 
we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  our  humble  prayers 
in  behalf  of  the  souls  of  thy  servants,  both  men  and 
women,  may  be  profitable  to  them  ;  so  that  thou 
mayest  deliver  them  from  all  their  sins,  and  make 
them  partakers  of  the  redemption  thou  hast  pur- 
chased for  them.  Who  livest. 

COLLECT,  &c.  for  a  deceased  Father  or  Mother. 

COLLECT.  O  God,  who  hast  commanded  us 
to  honour  our  Father  and  Mother ;  mercifully  shew 
pity  to  the  souls  [or  soul]  of  my  Fattier  [or]  my 
Mother,  and  forgive  him  [or  her]  their  [or  his  or 
her]  sins  :  and  grant  that  I  may  see  them  [or  him  or 
her]  in  the  joys  of  eternal  life.  Thro'- 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  sacrifice  I  offer 
for  the  souls  [or  soulj  of  my  Father,  [or  of]  my 
Mother:  grant  them  [or  him  or  her]  eternal  joys  in 
the  land  of  the  living  ;  and  associate  me  with  them 
[or  him  or  hei'j  in  the  bliss  of  thy  saints.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  May  the  participation  of  these  hea- 
venly mysteries,  O  Lord,  I  beseech  thee,  obtain 
rest  and  light  for  the  souls  [or  soul]  of  my  Father 
£pr  of]  my  Mother :  and  may  thy  grace  crown  rue 
with  them  [or  him  or  her]  for  ever.  Thyo'Q 


igtk  NOVEMBER.  JIT 

of  g>atnte* 

AS  the  primitive  Christians  were  accustomed  to  meet 
every  year  on  the  anniverfary  of  the  Martyrs  in  the 
churches  or  chapels  usually  erected  to  their  memory  in  the 
same  place  where  the  whole,  or  some  sacred  remain:  of 
their  bodies  had  been  buried,  and  2-s  their  tovribs  served 
for  an  altur,  so  it  has  ever  since  been  the  custom  to  put  the 
relics  of  some  Saint  iw,  or  beneath  altar Jtones.  The  MASS 
was  not  offered  to  the  MARTYR,  but  to  the  GOD  of  MAR- 
TYRS, to  whom  alone  sacrifice  is  due,  to  thank  him  as 
well  for  the  strength  and  courage  wherewith  he  had  ani- 
mated them,  as  for  that  state  of  bliss  to  which  he  has 
admitted  them.  Such  was  the  origin  of  the  festivals  of  the 
Saints. 

XXIX.   VIGIL  OF  ST.  ANDREW. 

When  this  Vif>\\  falls  in  Advent,  the  II.  Collect  is  of 

Advent,  and  the  III.  of  St-  Saturninus.       When  it 

falls  on  Saturday,  the  II.  /*•  Concede,  p.  507,  and 

the  Ilf.  is  Eccl.  p.  50,   or  Deus  omnium,  »6.  with 

their  respective  Secrets  and  P.  Comms. 

The  abovementioned  Prayers  are  also  said  on   every 

Vigil  (except  those  gf  Christmas,  Easter,  and  Whit- 

sundav,  which  have  only  one  Collect)  and  within 

all  Octaves,  ichen  the  Mass  of  the  Octave  is  said9 

if  direction*  to  the  contrary  are  not  given. 

1NTROJT.     Matt,  iv.— The  Lord  saw  near  the 

sea  of  Galilee  two  brethren,  Peter  and  Andrew,  and 

he  called  them,  saying;  Follow  me,  and  I  will  make 

you  fishers  of  men.     Ps.  xviii.  The  heavens  publish 

the  glory  of  God  :  and  the  firmament  declareth  the 

work  of  his  hand?.   V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.    Queetumus.  —  We  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  thy  blessed  Apostle  Andrew, 
whose  festival   we  are  preparing  to  celebrate,  may 
implore  thy  assistance  in  our  behalf,  that  being  dis- 
charged from  the  guilt  of  our  crimes,  we  may  like-. 
\\isf  be  freed  from  all  dangers.   Thro'* 
COLLECT.  Deus  tjui.—OfSt.  SATURNINUS-, 
Rr* 


522  l<)tll   KOVEMREPv. 

O  God,  by  whose  favour  we  celebrate  the  glory 
of  blessed  Saturninus,  thy  Martyr,  grant  that  we 
may  be  assisted  by  his  merits.  Thro'. 

LESSON,  qs  on  the  Vigil  of  an  Apostle,  p>  460. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxviii.  —  Thy  friends,  O  Godi  are 
exceeding  honourable,  exceeding  mighty  is  their 
power.  V.  I  will  set  about  to  number  them  :  but 
their  number  will  be  found  more  than  the  sands  of 
the  sea. 


John  i.  35.  51.  —  At  that  time: 
John  was  standing  with  two  of  his  disciples  :  and 
looking  upon  Jesus  as  he  was  walking,  he  saith  : 
Behold  the  Lamb  of  God.  And  the  two  disciples 
heard  him  speak,  and  they  followed  Jesus.  And 
Jesus  turning,  and  seeing  tiiem  following  him,  saith 
to  them  :  What  seek  you  ?  They  said  to  him  ; 
liabbi,  (which  is  to  say,  being  interpreted,  Master,) 
where  dwelleth  thou  ?  He  saith  to  them  :  Come 
and  see%  They  came  and  saw  where  he  abode, 
and  they  staid  with  him  that  day  ;  now  it  was  about 
the  tenth  hour.  And  Andrew  the  brother  of  Simon 
Peter  was  one  of  the  two  who  had  heard  of  John, 
and  followed  him.  He  first  findeth  his  brother 
Simon,  and  saith  to  him  :  We  have  found  the 
MESSIAS,  which  is,  being  interpreted,  the  CHRIST, 
And  he  brought  him  to  Jesus.  And  Jesus  looking 
upon  him,  said  :  Thou  art  Simon,  the  Son  of  Jona; 
thou  shalt  be  called  Cephas,  which  is  interpreted, 
Peter.  On  the  following  day  he  would  go  forih 
into  Galilee,  and  he  findeth  Philip.  And  Jesus 
saith  to  him:  Follow  me.  Now  Philip  was  of 
Bethsaida,  the  city  of  Andrew  and  Peter.  Philip 
fbideth  Nathanael,  and  saith  to  him  :  We  have 
found  him  of  whom  Moses  in  the  law,  and  the  pro- 
phets  did  write,  Jesus  the  son  of  Joseph  of  Naza- 
reth. And  Nathanael  saith  to  him  :  Can  any  thing 
of  good  come  from  Nazareth  ?  Philip  saith  to  him  : 
Come  and  see.  Jesus  saw  Nathanael  coming  to 


2$th   NOVEMBER.  523 

him,  and  he  saith  to  him  :  Behold  an  Israelite  in, 
deed,  in  whom  there  is  no  guile-  Nathanael  saith 
to  him  :  Whence  knowest  thou  me?  Jesus  answer- 
ed and  said:  Before  that  Philip  called  thee,  when 
thou  wast  under  the  fig-tree,  I  saw  thee.  Natha- 
nael  answered  him,  and  said  :  Rabbi,  thou  art  the 
Son  of  God,  thou  art  the  king  of  Israel.  Jesus  an- 
swered, and  said  to  him:  Because  1  said  unto  thee,  I 
saw  thee  under  the  fig-tree,  thou  believest:  greater 
things  than  these  shalt  thou  see.  And  he  saith  to 
him:  Amen,  amen  I  say  to  you,  you  shall  see  the 
heaven  opened,  and  the  Angels  of  God  ascending 
and  descending  upon  the  Son  of  Man- 

OFFERT.    Pi.  viii Thou  hast  crowned   him 

with  glory  :  and  hast  placed  him  over  the  works  ok" 
thy  hands,   O  Lord. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  the  gifts  to 
be  consecrated,  whereby  we,  celebrating  the  festival 
of  blessed  Andrew  the  Apostle,  beseech  thee,  that 
our  minds  m:iy  also  be  purified.  Thro*. 

SECRET,  of  St.  SATURN  INUS. 
Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings   we  have  conse- 
crated to  ihee,   and  being  appeased  thereby,  merci- 
fully  look  down  upon   us,   by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  Saturninus,  thy  Martyr-     Thro'. 

COMM.  John  i. — Andrew  saith  to  Simon  his 
brother:  We  have  found  the  Messiah,  who  is  called 
the  Christ ;  and  he  brought  him  to  Jesus. 

P.  COMM.  Pcrceplis.— Having  received,  O  Lord, 
thy  holy  sacrament,  we  beseech  thee  that,  by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  Andrew  thy  Apostle,  what  we 
perform  in  memory  of  his  venerable  passion,  may 
be  a  remedy  to  us- 

P.  COMM.  Sanctified,  of  St.  SATURNiNUS. 
May  tiie  receiving  of  this  thy  sacrament,  O  Lord,, 
we  beseech   thee,   sanctions:   and  by  the  interces- 
sion of  thy  saints,  make  us  acceptable  to  thee. 


5*4  3*th   NOVEMBER, 

XXX.  St.  ANDREW,  a  p. 

INTROIT.  PA-.  cxxxviii. 

nPO  me,  O  Lord,  in-  Ti/f  [R[  autern  nimis 
JL  deed,  a  re  thy  friends  JLYJL  honorati  sunt  a- 
cxceeding  honourable:  mici  tui,  Deus:  nimis 
exceeding  mighty  is  their  confortatus  est  principa- 
power,  Ps.  Lord,  thou  tus  eorum.  Ps.  Domine, 
hast  tried  me  and  known  probasti  me  et  cognovisti 
me:  thou  hast  known  me;  tu  cognovisti  sessio- 
my  sitting  down  and  my  nem  meam  et  resurrectU 
rising  up.  F.  Glory.  onem  meam.  V.  GIo;ia. 

COLLECT.  Mfijestatem.—W*  humbly  beseech 
ihy  divine  Majesty,  O  Lord,  that  as  the  blessed 
Apostle  Andrew  was  a  teacher  and  pastor  of  thy 
Church,  so  he  may  be  with  thee  our  perpetual  in* 
tercessor.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Rom.  x.  10.  18.— Brethren:  With 
the  heart  we  believe  unto  justice:  but,  with  the 
mouth  confession  is  made  unto  salvation.  For  the 
scripture  saith :  Whoscever  beliewth  in  hbn9  shall 
not  be  confounded.  Fcr  there  is  no  distinction  of 
the  Jew  and  the  Greek ;  for  the  same  is  Lord  over 
all,  rich  unto  all  that  call  upon  him.  For  whoso, 
ever  shall  call  upon  the  name  of  the  Lord,  shall  be 
saved.  Flow  then  shall  they  call  on  him,  in  whom, 
they  have  not  believed  ?  Or  how  shall  they  believe 
him,  of  whom  they  have  not  heard  ?  And  how  shall 
they  preacl:,  unless  they  be  sent?  as  it  is  written; 
How  beautiful  are  the  feet  of  them  that  preuck  the 
gospel  of  peace,  that  ofing  good  tidings  of  good 
things  fi  But  all  do  not  obey  the  gospel.  For  Isuias 
saith  :  Lord,  who  hath  believed  our  report  #  Faith 
then  cometh  by  hearing;  and  hearing  by  the  word 
of  Christ.  But  I  say  :  Have  they  not  heard  ? 
Yes  verity,  their  sound  hath  gone  Jwth  into  all  the 

.»,    and  their  worth  unto   tfa   ends  of-ihe  yeho'fo 


id  DECEMBER.  525 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv.-.-Thou  wilt  set  them  rulers 
over  all  the  earth,  and  they  shall  remember  thy 
name,  O  Lord.  V.  In  place  of  thy  fathers  thou 
hast  children  born  to  thee;  therefore  shall  nations 
•praise  thee.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  Lord 
loved  Andrew  like  a  sweet-smelling  odour.  Allel. 

dSdgfpei*  Matt.  iv.  18.  22. —  At  that  time: 
Jesus  walking  by  the  sea  of  Galilee,  saw  two  bre- 
thren, Simon  who  is  called  Peter,  and  Andrew  his 
brother,  casting  a  net  into  the  sea  (for  they  were 
fishers).  And  he  saith  to  them  :  Come  ye  after  me, 
and  I  will  make  you  fishers  of  men.  And  they  imme- 
diately leaving  their  nets,  followed  him.  And  going 
on  from  thence,  he  saw  t\vo  other  brethren,  James 
the  son  of  Zebedee,  and  John  his  brother,  in  a  ship 
with  Zebedee  their  father,  mending  their  nets:  and 
he  called  them.  And  they  forthwith  left  their  nets 
and  father,  and  followed  him.  CHEDO. 

Ol'TERT.  Ps  cxxxviii.— To  me,  O  God,  thy 
friends  are  exceeding  honourable:  exceeding  mighty 
is  their  power. 

SECRET.  May  the  holy  prayers  of  blessed 
Andrew  the  Apostle,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
render  our  sacrifice  pleasing  to  thee  ;  that  what  we 
solemnize  in  his  honour,  his  merits  may  render 
acceptable.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Matt.  iv. — Follow  me,  and  I  will  make 
you  r^hers  of  men :  and  they  forthwith  left  their 
nets,  and  followed  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Sumpsimus..'-A.s  the  divine  mysteries 
\ve  have  partaken  of  with  joy  on  this  festival  of 
blessed  Andrew,  conduce  to  the  glory  of  thy  saints; 
so,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  let  them  obtain  for 
us  pardon.  Thro*. 

December  II.  St.  BIBIANA,  v.  m. 
All  as  i?i  Mass  XV II.  p.  496,   except 
COLLECT.     Dcusf  vmniuw.^J)  (Jod,   the  b*. 


$26  3^  &  4thl  DECEMBER. 

slower  of  all  good  gifts,  who  in  thy  servant  Bibiana 
jpinedst  the  palm  of  martyrdom  with  the  flower  of 
virginity,  grant,  that  through  her  intercession,  our 
hearts  may  bfc  united  to  thee  by  charity ;  and  that 
being  delivered  from  all  dangers,  we  may  obtaift 
everlasting  rewards.  Thro*. 

III.  St.  FRANCIS  XAVIER,  c. 

INTRO1T.  1  spake  of  thy  law  in  the  presence 
of  kings,  and  was  not  ashamed :  and  meditated  on 
thy  commandments,  which  I  loved  exceedingly.  P*. 
Praise  the  Lord  all  ye  nations  :  praise  him  all  ye  peo- 
ple: for  his  mercy  is  confirmed  upon  us,  and  the 
truth  of  the  Lord  remaineth  for  ever.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui  Indiarum.—Q  God,  who, 
by  the  preaching  and  miracles  of  blessed  Francis, 
didst  bring  into  thy  Church  the  people  of  the  Indies: 
mercifully  grant  that  we  may  imitate  his  virtues, 
\vhose  glorious  merits  we  venerate.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,    Rom.  x.  p.  524.     Grad.  Offert.  and 

Comm«  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488.     Secret  and  P. 

Comm.  as  in  Mass  XIV.  p.  491. 

<E>08(p£l+  Mark  xvi.  15.  18.— ^  that  time* 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples ;  Go  ye  into  the  whole 
world,  and  preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature. 
He  that  believeth  and  is  baptized,  shall  be  saved ; 
but  he  that  believeth  not,  shall  be  condemned.  And 
these  signs  shall  follow  them  that  believe:  In  my  , 
name  they  shall  cast  out  devils ;  they  shall  speak 
with  new  tongues;  they  shall  take  up  serpents ;  and 
if  they  shall  drink  any  deadly  thing,  it  shall  not  hurt 
them  :  they  shall  lay  their  hands  upon  the  sick,  and 
tiiey  shall  recover. 

IV.  St.  PETER  CHRYSOLOGUS,  c. 

Ail  as  in  Mass  XII,  p.  485,  except 
COLLECT.     Deus,    qui.—O  God,  who  by  thy 
divine  providence  didst  ordain  that    blessed  Peter 
should  be  foreshewn  by  heaven,  and  chosen  as  an 


6th   DECEMBER.  527 

exalted  teacher  to  govern  and  instruct  ""thy  Church  ; 
grant,  we  beseech  tliee,  that  he  who  taught  us  the 
true  way  of  life  whilst  here  on  earth,  may  now  in* 
tercede  for  us  in  heaven.  Thro'- 

COLLECT,  in  commemoration  of  St.  Barbara, 

fls  in  Mass  XVI.  p.  493. 

VI.  St.  NICHOLAS,  bp.  c. 

INTROIT,    Statuit,  ^.461. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  </ui.—O  God,  who  by  in- 
numerable  miracles  hast  honoured  blessed  Nicholas 
the  Bishop  :  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  by  his 
merits  and  intercession  we  may  be  delivered  from 
eternal  flames.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Heb.  xiii.  7.  17.  —  Brethren  :  Re- 
member  your  prelates  who  have  spoken  to  you  the 
word  of  God  :  whose  faith  follow,  considering  the 
end  of  their  conversation.  Jesus  Christ  yesterday 
and  to*day;  and  he  is  the  same  for  ever.  Be  not 
led  away  with  various  and  strange  doctrines.  For  it 
is  best  that  the  heart  be  established  with  grace,  not 
with  meats :  which  have  not  profited  those  that  walk 
in  them.  We  have  an  altar,  whereof  they  have  r,6 
power  to  eat  who  serve  the  tabernacle.  For  the 
bodies  of  those  beasts,  whose  blood  is  brought  into 
the  sanctuary  by  the  high- priest  for  sin,  are  burned 
without  the  camp.  Wherefore  Jesus  also,  that  he 
might  sanctify  the  people  with  his  own  blood,  suf- 
fered without  the  gate.  Let  us  go  forth  therefore  to 
him  without  the  camp,  bearing  his  reproach.  For 
here  we  have  no  lasting  city,  but  we  seek  one  to 
come.  l>v  him  therefore  let  us  offer  the  sacrifice  of 
praise  toGod  continually,  that  is,  the  fruit  of  !:ps 
giving  glory  to  his  name.  And  do  not  forget  to  do 
good  and  to  impart ;  for  by  such  sacrifices  God's  fa- 
vour is  obtained.  Obey  your  prelates,  and  be  sub- 
ject to  th'rm:  for  they  watch,  as  being  to  render  an 
account  of  your  souls. 

GRAD.  to  Alleluias,  as  in  Mass  I,  ;>.  4^*. 


5*&  Jth  DECEMBER. 

V.  The  righteous  man  shall  flourish  like  the  palm- 
tree    he  shall  thrive  like  the  cedar  of  Li  harms.  Allel. 


Matt.  xxv.  as  in  Mass  X.*  p.  482. 

OF  PERT.  My  truth  and  my  mercy  are  with  him  : 
and  in  my  name,  his  power  shall  be  exalted. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord 
our  God,  those  gifts  which  we  offer  thee  on  the  fes- 
tival of  our  holy  Bishop  Nicholas:  that  our  lives 
may  never  swerve  from  truth,  either  in  prosperity  of 
adversity.  Thro'. 

*GQNfAf.  Once  have  I  sworn  by  my  holy  name; 
his  posterity  shall  remain  for  ever,  and  his  throne  as 
the  sun  beforeme3  and  as  the  moon,  perfect  for  ever, 
and  as  the  faithful  witness  in  heaven. 

P.  COMM.  May  the  sacrifice  we  have  partaken 
of,  O  Lord,  on  the  solemnity  of  thy  holy  Bishop 
Nicholas,  continually  protect  us.  Thro*. 

VI  L  St.  AMBROSE,  b.  c.  and  D. 
All  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  485,  except 

GRAD.  Eccles.  xliv.  —  Behold  a  great  prelate, 
xvho  in  his  days  pleased  God,  V.  There  was  none 
found  like  him  in  keeping  the  law  of  the  Most  High. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  Lord  hath  sworn, 
and  will  not  repent  it  :  Thou  art  a  priest  for  ever 
according  to  the  order  of  Melchisedech,  Alleluia. 

OFFERT.     My  truth,  &c.  as  above. 

SECRET.  O  almighty  and  eternal  God,  grant 
by  the  intercession  of  B.  Ambrose,  thy  Conf.  and 
Bp.  that  the  gifts  we  have  offered  to  thy  divine  Ma- 
jesty may  procure  for  us  eternal  salvation.  Thro*. 

*COMM.  As  above,  Once  have  I  sworn,  &c. 

P.  COMM.  Sacramenta.  —  Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  having  received  the  sa- 
crament of  our  salvation,  we  may  be  ever  assisted  by 
the  prayers  of  blessed  Ambrose,  thy  Confessor  and 
Bishop,  on  whose  festival  we  have  offered  this  sacrU 
fice  to  thy  divine  majesty.  Thro*. 


Ml    DECEMBER.  S2* 

VIH.  CONCEPTION  of  the  B.  V.  MARY. 

'By  changing  the  word  Conception  into  Nativity,  and 
including  a  Comment.  o/'St.  Adrian,  m  by  Me  Col- 
lect,  &c.  Prastu,  from  Mass  V.  p.  482,  this  Mas* 
also  serves  for  the  8th  September. 

INTROIT,  Salve,  p.  507. 
COLLECT.  Jbmttto.-—6rant,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  to  thy  servants  the  gifts  of  thy  heavenly 
grace;  that  as  our  redemption  began  in  the  delivery 
of  the  blessed  Virgin,  so  in  this  solemnity  of  her 
Conception,  [Nativity']  we  may  hcve  an  increase  of 
peace.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Prov.  viii.  22.  25.— The  Lord  pos- 
sessed me  in  the  beginning  of  his  ways,  before  he 
made  any  thing,  from  the  beginning.  1  was  set  up 
from  eternity,  and  of  old  before  the  earth  was 
made.  The  depths  were  not  as  yet,  and  I  was  al- 
ready conceived,  neither  had  the  fountains  of  waters 
as  yet  sprung  out:  the  mountains  with  their  huge 
bulk  had  not  as  yet  been  established:  before  the 
hills  I  was  brought  forth:  he  had  not  yet  made  the 
earth,  nor  the  rivers,  nor  the  poles  of  the  world. 
When  he  prepared  the  heavens,  1  was  there  :  when, 
with  a  certain  law  and  compass  he  enclosed  the 
depths :  when  he  established  the  sky  above,  and 
poised  the  fountains  of  waters :  when  he  compassed 
the  sea  with  its  bounds,  and  set  a  law  to  the  waters, 
that  they  should  not  pass  their  limits  ;  when  he  ba- 
lanced the  foundations  of  the  earth.  I  was  with 
him  forming  all  things,  and  was  delighted  every 
day,  playing  before  him  at  all  times,  playing  in  the 
world:  and  my  delight  is  to  be  with  the  children  of 
men.  Now,  therefore,  ye  children,  hear  me: 
blessed  are  they  that  keep  my  way.  Hear  instruc- 
tion and  be  wise,  and  refuse  it  not.  Blessed  is  the 
wan  that  heareth  me,  and  that  watcheth  daily  at  my 
Yy 


53°  8/A  DECEMBER4 

gates,  and  waiteth  at  the  posts  of  my  doors.  He  that 
shall  find  me  shall  find  life,  and  shall  have  salvation 
from  the  Lord. 

GRAD.  Thou  art  blessed,  and  worthy  of  our 
respects,  O  Mary  the  Virgin,  who  without  pre- 
judice to  thy  virginity,  didst  become  the  mother  of 
the  Saviour.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Happy  art 
thou,  O  holy  Virgin  Mary,  and  worthy  of  all  praise; 
because  from  thee  arose  the  Sun  of  Righteousness, 
Christ  our  God.  Alleluia. 

C5o£pel.  Matt.  I  i.  1 6,  —  The  book .of  the 
generation  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  son  of  David,  the 
son  of  Abraham.  Abraham  begot  Isaac.  And  Isaac 
begot  Jacob.  And  Jacob  begot  Judas  and  his  brethren; 
and  Judas  begot  Pliares  and  Zara  of  Thamar.  And 
Pimres  begot  Esron.  And  Esron  begot  Aram.  And 
Aram  begot  Atn'midab.  And  Aminidab  begot  Naas- 
son.  And  Naasson  begot  Salmon.  And  Salmon  begot 
BoozofRahab,  And  Booz  begot  Obed  of  Ruth. 
And  Obed  begot  Jesse.  And  Jesse  begot  David 
the  king.  And  David  the  king  begot  Solomon,  of 
her  who  had  been  the  wife  o/'Urias,  And  Solomon 
begot  Roboam.  And  Roboam  begot  Abias.  And 
.A bias  begot  Asa.  And  Asa  begot  Josaphat.  And 
Josaphat  begot  Joram.  And  Joram  begot  Ozias, 
And  Ozias  begot  Joatham.  And  Joatham  begot 
Achaz.  And  Achaz  begot  Ezechias.  And  Ezechias 
begot  Manasses.  And  Manasses  begot  Amon.  And 
Amon  bego^  Josias.  And  Josias  begot  Jechonias 
and  his  brethren  in  the  transmigration  of  Babylon. 
And  after  the  transmigration  of  Babylon,  Jechonias 
begot  Salathiel.  And  Salathiel  begot  Zorobabd. 
And  Zorobabel  begot  Abiud,  And  Abiud  begot 
Eliacim.  AndEliacim-  begot  Azor.  And  Azor  be- 
got Sadoc.  And  Sadoc  begot  Achim.  AndAchim 
begot  Eliud.  And  Eliud  begot  Eleazar-  And  Elea- 
^ar  begot  Matham.  And  Matham  begot  Jacob*  Aad 


Mth  &    l$tk    DECEMBER.  53* 

Jacob  begot  Joseph,  the  husband  of  Mary  fcof  whom 
was  born  Jesus,  who  is  called  Christ. 

OFFERT.  Blessed  art  thou,  O  Mary  the  Virgin, 
who  didst  bear  the  Creator  of  all  things.  Thou 
toroughu  st  forth  him  who  made  thee,  and  remainest 
a  virgin  for  ever. 

SECRET.  May  the  humanity  of  thy  only  be* 
gotten  Son,  O  Lord,  succour  us,  that  he,  (who 
being  born  of  a  Virgin,  diminished  not,  but  conse- 
crated her  virginity)  may  five  us,  who  celebrate  the 
festival  of  her  Conception  [Nativity]  from  our  sins: 
and  render  our  oblation  acceptable  to  thee.  Who. 
Comm.  flttd  P.  Comm.  as  in  the  Votive  Mass,  p.  509. 


X[.  St.  DAMASUS,  p.  c. 

All  an  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,    except 

'COLLECT.  Exaudi.—  Give  ear,  O  Lord,  to  our 

prayt-rs,  and  by   the  intercession  of  blessed  Duma* 

sus,  thy  Confessor  and  Bibhop,  mercifully  £rant  us 

pardon  and  peace.     Thro1. 

GRADUAL  and  OFFERTORY,  as  in  Mass  X.* 
p.  4*2.   SECRET,  as  in  Mass  XX./^ci. 

COMM.  Matt.  x\v.  —  Lord,  thou  didst  deliver 
to  me  five  talents;  behold  1  have  gained  five:  more. 
Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant;  since  thou 
hast  been  faithful  in  a  few  things,  I  w?ill  set  thee  over 
many:  enter  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Da,  ftuenraMi^.^Grmat,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  that  thy  faithful  may  always  cele- 
brate with  joy  the  festivals  of  thy  saints,  and  ever 
be  protected  by  their  prayers.  Thro'. 

X11I.  St.  LUCY,  v.  m. 

Introit,  Coll.  and  Epist.   as  in  Mass  XIX.  p.  498. 
GRAD.     Thou  didst  love  righteousness  and  hate 
iniquity.  F.  Therefore  God,  thy  God,  hath  aiioiuU- 
Yya 


$3a  2ftf   DECEMBER. 

ed  thee  with  the  oil  of  gladness.  Alleluia,  Alleluia* 
V.  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips,  therefore  hath  AGod 
blessed  thee  for  ever.  Alleluia. 

(POjSptl,  'Offertory,  Secret,  and  P.  Comm.  as 
in  Mass  XX.  ^.499. 

COMM.  Princes  have  persecuted  me  without 
cause,  and  my  heart  hath  trembled  at  thy  words: 
but  1  will  rejoice  in  thy  commandments,  like  one 
who  hath  found  rich  spoils, 

XXL  St.  THOMAS,  ap. 

INTRO  IT,  Mihiautem,  p.  524. 

COLLECT.  Da,  nubis.— Grant,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  we  may  rejoice  on  the  solemnity 
of  thy  blessed  Apostle  Thomas;  to  the  end  that  we 
may  always  have  the  assistance  of  his  prayers,  and 
zealously  profess  the  faith  he  taught. 

EPISTLE.  Ephct.  ii.  19.  22.— Brethren:  You 
are  no  more  strangers  and  foreigners :  but  you  are 
fellow-citizens  with  the  saints,  and  the  domestics  ot* 
God,  built  upon  the  foundation  of  the  apostles  and 
prophets,  Jesus  Christ  himself  being  the  chief  cor- 
ner-stone: in  whom  all  the  building  being  framed 
together,  groweth  up  into  an  holy  temple  in  the 
Lord.  In  whom  you  also  are  built  together  into 
an  habitation  of  God  in  the  spirit. 

GRAD.  Thy  friends,  O  God,  are  exceedingly 
honourable,  exceedingly  mighty  is  their  power.  E 
\viil  set  about  to  number  them  :  but  they  will  be 
found  more  numerous  than  the  sands  of  the  sea. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  F.  Rejoice  ye  just,  in  the  Lord: 
it  becometh  the  righteous  to  join  in  his  praises.  AU 
leluia. 

d£>00p£i>  John  xx.  to  *,  as  on  Low  Sund.  p*  347. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xviii.  —  Their  sound  went  thro* 
the  whole  world:  and  their  words  to  the  farthest 
"bounds  of  the  earth. 


3isJ  DECEMBER  &  id  JANUARY.          §  $\ 

SECRET.  We  pay,  O  Lord,  the  homage  due 
to  thee,  humbly  beseeching  thee  to  preserve  in  us 
thy  own  gifts  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Thomas 
the  apostle,  on  the  day  of  whose  glorious  confes- 
sion we  offer  thee  a  sacrifice  of  praise.  Thro*. 

COMM,  Reach  hither  thy  hand,  and  feel  the 
print  of  the  nails:  and  be  not  incredulous,  but  be- 
lieve. 

P.  COMM.  Adesto. — Assist  us,  O  merciful  God, 
and  vouchsafe,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Tho* 
mas  the  apostle,  to  preserve  in  us,  what  thou  hast 
bestowed  upon  us.  Thro*. 

XXXI.  St.  SYLVESTER,  p.  c. 
INTROIT,    Sacerdotes,   p.  4^4.    Collect,    Secret 

and  P.  Comm.   as  in  p.  482,   with  Commemo. 

rations  of  all  the  Festivals,  from   Christmas-day 

inclusively 

EPISTLE,    2  Tim.  iv.  i.  8.  as  in  p.  486. 

GRAD.  Behold  a  great  Prelate,  who  in  his  dayi 
pleased  God.  V.  There  was  none  found  like  him 
in  keeping  the  law  of  God.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
V.  Pa.  I  have  found  my  servant  David:  I  have 
anointed  him  with  my  holy  oil.  Alleluia. 

d>0#pel,     Luke  xii.  as  in  Mass  XIH.  p.  488. 

OFFERT.  PJ.  Ixxxviii. — I  have  found  David  my 
servant:  with  my  holy  oil  have  1  anointed  him.  My 
hand  shall  help  him,  and  my  arm  shall  strengthen 
him 

COMM.     Matt.  xxiv.  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  489. 


January  \L     Octave-day. of  St.  STEPHEN. 

AIL  as  on  the  Feast  itself y  p .  7  8,  except 
COLLECT.     Omnipotens.—&  al mighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  who  didst  consecrate  the  first  fruits  of  mar- 
tyrdom in  the  blood  of  the  blessed  Leviie  Stephen; 
Yy3 


534  5^*  &  ltfh  JANUARY. 

grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  he  may  intercede  for 
us,  who  begged  mercy,  even  for  his  persecutors,  of 
our  Lord  Jestis  Christ  thy  Son.  Who  liveth. 

V.  Octave  of  St.  THOMAS  of  CANTERBURY. 
Mass  as  on  his  Feast,  p.  85,  with  Commems.   of  the 
Eve  of  the  Epiphany,  of  the  Sunday  within  the 
Octave  of  Christmas,  and  of  St,  Telesphorus,  by 
the  Collect,  &c-  o/Mass  II.  p,  464.  $c. 

At  the  end  o/  Mass  is  read  the  following 
d500ptl  of  the  Eve  of  the  Epiphany.  Matt, 
ii.  19.  23. —  At  that  time  :  When  Herod  was  dead, 
behold  an  angel  of  the  Lord  appeared  in  sleep  to 
Joseph  in  Egypt,  saying:  Arise  and  take  the  child 
and  his  mother  and  go  into  the  land  of  Israel.  For 
they  are  dead  who  sought  the  life  of  the  child  And 
he  arose  and  took  the  child  and  his  mother,  and 
came  into  the  land  of  Israel,  But  hearing  that 
Archelaus  reigned  in  Judea  in  the  room  of  Herod  his 
father,  he  was  afraid  to  go  thither :  and  being 
warned  in  his  sleep,  he  turned  aside  into  the  qurr- 
ters  of  Galilee.  And  he  came  and  dwelt  in  a  city 
called  Nazareth:  that  it  might  be  fulfilled  which 
was  said  by  the  prophets:  that  he  shall  be  called  a 
Nazarene.  Deo  gratias* 

XIV.  St.  HILARY,  bp.  c. 

AH  as  In  Mass  XIT.  p.  485,  with  a  Com  mem.  o/*Sft 
Felix,  by  the  following  Collect,  &c. 

COLLECT.  Concede.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  the  examples  of  thy  sa:nts 
may  excite  us  to  the  amendment  of  our  lives:  that 
as  we  celebrate  their  festivals,  so  we  may  imitate 
their  virtues.  Thro*. 

SECRET  of  the  same.  Mercifully  receive,  O 
Lord,  Lhe  offerings  consecrated  to  thee  by  the  ms- 


l$th  JANUARY.  535 

fits  of  blessed  Felix,  thy  Martyr,  and  grant  they  may 
be  a  continual  support  to  us.     Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Quicsumiis.  Of  the  same.  —  We  be. 
seech  thee,  O  Lord,  that,  beinjr  fed  by  these  holy 
mysteries  of  our  salvation,  we  may  be  helped  by 
the  prayers  of  blessed  Felix,  thy  Martyr,  whose  fes- 
tival  we  celebrate.  Thro'. 

XV.     St.  PAUL,   the  first  Hermit. 

INTROiT,    Justus  ut  pal  ma,  p.  489. 

COLLECT.  Dens,  gui  w<w.~. O  God,  who  dost 
comfort  us  by  the  yearly  solemnity  of  blessed  Paul 
thy  Confessor,  mercifully  grant  that  while  we  cele- 
brate his  festival,  we  may  imitate  his  actions.  Thro'. 

(2/*St.  Maurus.     COLLECT   as  in  p.  491. 

EPISTLE.  Philip,  iii.  7.  \  2. ..-Brethren  :  The 
things  that  were  gain  to  me,  the  same  I  have 
counted  loss  for  Christ  Farthermore  I  count  all 
things  to  be  but  loss  for  the  excellent  knowledge  of 
Jesus  Christ  my  Lord  :  for  whom  I  have  suffered  the 
loss  of  all  things,  and  count  them  but  abating,  that 
1  may  gain  Christ :  and  may  be  found  in  him  not 
having  my  justice,  which  is  of  the  law,  but  that 
\vhich  is  of  the  faith  of  Christ.  Jesus,  which  is  of 
God,  justice  in  faith  :  that  1  may  know  him,  and 
the  power  of  his  resurrection,  ana  the  fellowship  of 
jus  sufferings,  being  made  conformable  to  his 
death,  if  by  any  means  I  may  attain  to  the  resurrec- 
tion which  is  from  the  dead  Not  as  though  I  had 
already  attained,  or  were  already  perfect:  but  1  fol- 
low after,  if  i  may  by  any  means  apprehend,  wherein 
I  am  also  apprehended  by  Christ  Jesus. 

GRALX  P*.  xx.- -Lord,  thou  hast,  prevented  him 
ty  thy  sweet  blessings:  thou  hast  set  on  his  head  a 
crown  of  pearls.  /'.  Fie  asked  life  ot  ihee,  and  thou 
Last  pixen  him  U-npth  of  days  for  ever  and  ever. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.      K  "The  righteous  man  shall 


536  \6th  JANUARY. 

bud  like  the  lily,  and  flourish  for  ever  in  the  pre- 
sence of  the  Lord.  Alleluia. 

d£>00p£U  Matt,  xi.  25.  30.- —  At  that  time  : 
Jesus  answered  and  said  :  I  confess  to  thee,  O  Fa- 
ther, Lord  of  heaven  and  earth>  because  thon  hast 
hid  these  things  from  the  wise  and  prudent,  and 
hast  revealed  them  to  little  ones.  Yea,  Father  j 
for  so  it  hath  seemed  good  in  thy  sight.  All  things 
are  delivered  to  me  by  my  Father.  And  no  one 
knoweth  the  Son,  but  the  Father:  neither  doth  any 
one  know  the  Father,  but  the  Son,  and  he  to 
whom  it  shall  please  the  Son  to  reveal  him.  Come 
to  me,  all  you  that  labour,  and  are  burdened,  and 
1  will  refresh  you.  Take  up  my  yoke  upon  you, 
and  learn  of  me,  because  I  am  meek,  and  humble 
of  heart:  and  you  shall  find  rest  to  your  souls.  For 
tny  yoke  is  sweet,  and  my  burden  light. 

OFFER' r.  and  SECRET  as  in  Mass  XIV.  p.  49 1. 

COMM.  Pi1.  Ixiii.  — -  The  righteous  man  shall 
rejoice,  and  hope  in  the  Lord:  and  all  the  upright 
of  heart  shall  be  praised. 

P.  COMM.  Refecti,  as  in  Mass  Xllf.  p.  489. 
Of  St.  MAURU.S,  Protect,  as  in  Mass  XV.*  p.  ^92. 

XVF.  St.  MARCELLUS,  p.  m. 

Introit,  Gradual,  a/zdOffert.  as  in  Mass  I.  p.  461,4^. 

COLLECT.  Preces.— Mercifully  hear,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  ihee,  the  prayers  of  thy  people,  that  we 
may  be  assisted  by  the  merits  of  blessed  Marc«-llu*t 
thy  Martyr  and  Bishop,  the  feast  of  whose  sufferings 
we  celebrate  with  joy.  Thro'* 
EPISTLE  and  GOSPEL,  from  Mass  II.  pp.  464, 
465. 

SECRET.  Graciously  receive,  O  God,  we  be- 
leech  thee,  the  offerings  we  have  made,  and,  in 


JANUARY. 

ttnsideiation  of  the  merits  of  blessed  >££"»*» 
Martvr  and  Bishop,  grant  they  may  procure  tor  i 
the  helps  necessary  to  our  salvation.      I  hro  . 

COMM.  «*  on  St.  Damasus,  ^"ft^  ]M3** 
P  COMM.    Srfiorfi.-~Thbu   hast  fed,  O  Lord. 
thy  family  with  these  sacred  oblations  ;  ever 
lore  comfort  us  by  his  intercession,  whose  feast  we 

celebrate.    Thro*. 

XVIII.  St.  PETER's  CHAIR  at  ROME,  Sec. 
£u  omitting  the  Comm.  of  St.  Priscaf,  this  Maw 
tents  also  for  his  Chair  at  Antioch,  bpYMaad 
February. 

INTROIT.  Statuit,  as  in  Mass  I.  p.  461. 
COLLECT.  DCUJ,  $«i  6eafo.— O  God,  who  by 
delivering  to  the  blessed  Apostle  Peter  the  keys  of 
the  kingdom  of  heaven,  didst  give  him  the  power  of 
binding  and  loosing:  grant  that,  by  his  interces- 
sion, we  may  be  freed  from  the  bonds  of  our  sins. 
"Who  livest.  _  ~  , 

Of  St.  PAUL.  Deus,  qni  ntultitudmem,— O  God, 
who  by  the  preaching  ot  blessed  Paul  the  Apostle, 
didst  instruct  the  multitude  of  the  Gentiles:  grant, 
we  beseech  thee,  that  whilst  we  celebrate  his  me- 
mory, we  may  6nd  the  effects  of  his  prayers. 

f  O/'St  PR.ISCA.  Da  ^wtfswwws.— Grant,  we  be- 
seechihee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  cele- 
brate the  memory  of  blessed  Prisca,  thy  V.  and  M. 
may  find  comfort  on  hej  yearly  festival  and  improve 
by  the  example  of  her  great  faith.  Thro  . 

EPISTLE,  i  Pet.  \.  i.  7-— Peter,  an  apostle  of 
Jesus  Christ,  to  the  strangers  dipersed  through  Pon. 
tus,  Galaiia,  Cappadocia,  Asia,  and  Bithyma,  fefect 
according  to  the  foreknowledge  of  God  the  bather, 
unto  the  sanctification  of  the  Spirit,  unto  obedience 
and  sprinkling  of  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ:  grace, 
unto  you  and  peace  be  multiplied.  Blessod  be  tO$ 


S38  l8*A  JANUARY. 

God  and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  ac- 
cording to  his  great  mercy  hath  regenerated  us  unto 
a  lively  hope,  by  the  resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ 
from  the  dead,  ^unto  an  inheritance  incorruptible, 
and  undefiled,  and  that  cannot  fade,  reserved  in 
heaven  for  you,  who  by  the  power  of  God  are  kept 
by  faith  unto  salvation  ready  to  be  revealed  in  the 
last  time.  Wherein  you  shall  greatly  rejoice,  if 
now  you  must  be  for  a  little  time  made  sorrowful 
in  divers  temptations:  that  the  trial  of  your  faith, 
(much  more  precious  than  gold,  which  is  tried  by 
the  fire)  may  be  found  unto  praise,  and  glory,  and 
honour,  at  the  appearing  of  Jesus  Christ. 

GRAD.  Ps*  cxvi.  —  Let  them  extol  him  in  the 
assembly  of  the  people,  and  praise  him  where  the 
elders  sit.  V.  Let  them  thank  the  Lord  for  his 
mercy,  and  publish  his  wonders  as  to  the  sons  of 
men.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Thou  art  Peter,  and 
upon  this  rock  1  will  build  my  church.  Alleluia. 

TRACT.  (After  Septuagesima.)  Thou  art 
Peter,  and  upon  this  rock  1  will  build  my  church, 
and  the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail  against  it.  And 
1  will  give  thee  the  keys  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven* 
V.  Whatsoever  thou  shalt  bind  on  earth  shall  be 
bound  in  heaven.  V.  And  whatsoever  thou  shalt 
loose  on  earth,  shall  be  loosed  in  heaven. 

(B00p£l,  Matt,  xvi,  as  on  the  29th  (/June. 
Offert.  Thou  art,  &c.  as  in  the  preceding  Tract,  toK. 

SECRET.  May  the  intercession,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  of  B.  Peter  thy  A  p.  render  the  pray- 
ers and  offerings  of  thy  church  acceptable  to  thee  : 
that  the  mysteries  we  celebrate  in  his  honour,  may 
obtain  for  us  the  pardon  of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

Oj  St.  PAUL.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings 
of  thy  people  by  the  prayers  of  Paul  thy  Apostle: 
that  what  is  acceptable  to  thee,  because  by  thee  in- 
stituted, may  become  still  more  acceptable  by  his  in- 
tercession* 


lyth  JANUARY.  539 

f  O/'St.  PRISCA.  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  sacrifice  we  offer  in  honour  of  the  martyr- 
dom  of  thy  saints,  may  loose  the  bonds  of  our  sins, 
anfl  procure  for  us  the  gifts  of  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Thou  art  Peter,  and  upon  this  rock 
I  will  build  my  church. 

P.  COMM.  May  the  sacrifice  we  have  offered,  O 
Lord,  fill  us  with  holy  joy:  that  as  we  publish  the 
miracles  thou  hast  wrought  in  the  person  of  thy 
Apostle  Peter,  so  we  may,  through  his  prayers,  re- 
ceive the  abundant  effects  of  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

O/'St.  PAUL.  Sanctificati. — Being  sanctified,  O 
Lord,  by  these  saving  mysteries,  we  pray  that  we 
may  never  be  deprived  of  his  intercession  whom  thou 
Last  appointed  our  patron  and  guide. 

•f  Of  St.  PRISCA.  Quasumus. — Being  filled  with 
these  saving  mysteries,  we  beseech  tbee,  O  Lord, 
that  we  may  be  assisted  by  the  prayers  of  her,  whose 
festival  we  keep.  Thro'. 

XiX.  St.  WOLSTAN,  Bp.  of  Worcester. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.  Spiritum.— 'Infuse  into  our  souls,  O 
Lord,  the  spirit  of  thy  love :  that  by  the  intercession 
of  blessed  Wolstan,  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  we 
may  be  made  worthy  to  enjoy  the  fruits  thereof  in 
eternal  felicity.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Receive/we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  of  thy  suppliant  servants:  and  grant 
that  what  our  guilty  consciences  dare  not  hope  for, 
thy  mercy  would  bestow  on  us,  by  the  intercession 
of  blessed  Wolstan.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Salutaris, — Being  replenished,  O 
Lord,  with  thy  wholesome  mysteries,  we  humbly 
beseech  thy  clemency,  that  the  prayers  of  him  may 
not  be  wanting  to  us,  under  whose  patronage  thou 
hast  placed  us.  Thro'. 


54°  2Cth   JANUARY. 

XX.  SS.  FABIANcmd  SEBASTIAN,  mm. 

INTROIT,  «s  in  Mass  VII.  p.  475. 

COLLECT,  Injirmitatarii  with  its  Secret  and 
P.  Comm.  in  the  plural  number,  as  in  p*  461. 

EPISTLE.  Heb.  xi.  33,  39.  ...  Brethren:  The 
saints  by  faith  conquered  kingdoms,  wrought  justice, 
obtained  promises,  stopped  the  mouths  of  lions, 
quenched  the  violence  of  fire,  escaped  the  edge  of 
the  sword,  recovered  strength  from  weakness,  be- 
came  valiant  in  battle,  put  to  flight  the  armies  of 
foreigners :  women  received  their  dead  raised  to  life 
again.  But  others  were  racked,  not  accepting  deli- 
verance, th.it  they  might  find  a  better  resurrection. 
And  others  had  trial  of  mockeries  and  stripes,  more* 
over  also  of  bands  and  prisons:  they  were  stoned , 
they  were  cut  asunder,  they  were  tempted,  they 
were  put  to  death  by  the  sword,  they  wandered  aboul 
in  sheep  skins,  and  in  goat-skins,  being  in  want, 
distressed,  atflicted  :  of  whom  the  world  \\asnol 
worthy;  wandering  in  desarts,  in  mountains,  and  in 
dens,  and  in  raves  of  the  earth.  And  all  these  being 
approved  by  the  testimony  of  faith,  in  Christ  Jesus 
our  Lord, 

GRAD.  E.vod.  xv. --- God  is  glorious  in  his. 
saints,  wonderful  in  his  majesty,  and  performetli 
prodigies.  V.  Thy  right  hand,  O  Lard,  hath  glo- 
riously displayed  its  strength:  thy  right  hand  hath 
defeated  thv  enemies.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Thy 
saints,  ()  God,  shall  bless  thee,  and  publish  the 
glory  of  thy  kingdom.  Alleluia. 

(BOjSpCl,  Lukevi.  as  in  Mass  VIII.  p.  478. 

OFFERT.  Be  glad  in  the  Lord,  and  rejoice  y« 
righteous:  and  praise  him  all  ye  upright  of  heart. 

COMM.  Luke  vi.«- A  great  many  that  were  dis. 
eased,  and  tormented  by  unclean  spirits,  came  to 
him,  because  a  virtue  proceeded  from  him,  aad 
healed  them  ail. 


2IS*  &  22d  JANUART.  §4* 

XXL    St.  AGNES,  v.  m. 

7NTROIT,  Me  expectaverunt,  as  in  p.  496. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotens.—Q  almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  who  makest  choice  of  the  weak  things  of 
this  world  to  confound  the  strong:  mercifully  grant 
that  we,  who  celebrate  the  feast  of  blessed  Agnes, 
thy  Virgin  and  Martyf,  may  experience  the  effects  of 
her  prayers.  Thro*. 

LESSON,  a?  in  Mass  XVI.  p.  493- 

GRAD.  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips,  therefore 
hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever.  V.  For  thy  truth, 
meekness,  and  righteousness,  shall  thy  right  hand 
also  lead  thee  on  wonderfully.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
V.  The  five  wise  virgins  took  oil  in  their  vessels  with 
their  lamps,  and  at  midnight  there  was  a  cry:  Be- 
hold the  bridegroom  cometh,  go  ye  forth  and  meet 
Christ  the  Lord.  Alleluia. 
After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said  the 

TRACT,  Veni  Sponsa,  which  with  the.  GOSPEL  and 

OF  PERT,  are  also  taken  from  Mass  XVI.  p.  494,  i$r. 

SECRET.  Favourably  receive,  O  Lord,  the  of- 
ferings  we  make  thee,  and  by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  Agnes,  thy  Virgin  and  Martyr,  loosen  tlve 
bonds  of  our  sins.  Thro*. 

COMM.     The  five  wise  virgins,  &c.  as  in  p.  499. 

P.  CpMM.  Refccti.—  Being  refreshed,  O  Lord, 
with  this  heavenly  meat  and  drink,  we  hurjibly  be- 
seech  thee  that  we  may  be  aided  by  her  prayers,  on 
whose  festival  we  have  received  these  sacred  myste- 
ries. Thro'. 

XXII.  SS.  VINCENT  and  ANASTAS1US,  mm. 

All  as  in  Mass  VII.  p.  475,  except 
COLLECT.  ^t/csto.— Hear,  O  Lord,  our  ear- 
nest prayers,  that  we,  who  are  sensible  ofihegui!t 
of  our  crimes,  may  be  delivered  therefrom  by  the 
prayers  of  thy  blessed  Martyrs  Vincent  and  Anasta- 
tic Thro1. 

Zz 


24th  JANUARY. 

SECRET,    We  bring,  as  in  Mass  VIII.  p.  479. 

P.  COMM.  Quaswnus.— We  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  by  the  intercession  of  thy  blessed 
Martyrs  Vincent  and  Anastasius,  the  heavenly  food 
\ve  have  received  may  defend  us  from  all  adversity. 
Thro'. 

XXIII.    St.  RAYMOND  of  PENNAFORT,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.     Dcus,   qui  beatum.—O  God,  who 
didst  make  blessed  Raymond  an  excellent  minister 
of  the  sacrament  of  penance,  and  didst  miraculously 
conduct  him  through  the  waves  of  the  sea;  grant, 
by  his  intercession,  that  we  may  bring  forth  worthy 
fruits  of  penance,  and  be  enabled  to  arrive  at  the 
port  of  eternal  salvation.     Thro'. 
Commem.  of  St.  Emerentiana,  by  the  Collect,  In- 
cluigentiam,  with  its  Secret,  and  P.  Comni.  as  in 
Mass  XVII.  p.  496,  4"C. 

XXIV.  St.  TIMOTHY,  bp.  m. 
All  as  in  Mass  I.  p.  461,  except 
EPISTLE,  i  Tim..\\.  \  i,  16.— Dear  Brother  : 
Follow  after  justice,  godliness,  faith,  charity,  pa- 
tience, meekness.  Fight  the  good  fight  of  faith,  lay 
hold  on  eternal  life,  whereunto  thou  art  called,  and 
hast  confessed  a  good  confession  before  many  wit- 
nesses. I  charge  thee  before  God,  who  quickeneth 
all  things,  and  before  Christ  Jesus,  who  gave  testi- 
mony under  Pontius  Pilate,  a  good  confession:  that 
thou  keep  the  commandment  without  spot,  blame- 
less, unto  the  coming  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ: 
which  in  his  times  he  shall  shew,  who  is  the  Bless. 
ed,  and  only  Mighty,  the  King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of 
lords :  who  only  hath  immortality,  and  in  habit  eth 
light  inaccessible,  whom  no  man  hath  seen  nor  can 
«ee:  to  whom  be  honqur  and  empire  everlasting. 
A  men. 


25^  JANUARY.  543 

XXV.    CONVERSION  of  St.  PAUL. 

1NTRO1T.  i  Tim.  i.— I  know  whom  I  have 
trusted,  and  am  sure  that  he  is  a  just  judge,  and  able 
to  keep  what  1  have  deposited  in  his  hands  against 
that  day.  1's.  Lord  thou  hast  tried  me,  and  hast 
known'me  :  thon  hast  known  my  sitting  down,  and 
rny  up- rising.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  ywi.— O  God,  who,  by  the 
preaching  of  blessed  Paul  thy  Apostle,  didst  instruct 
the  whole  world;  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we, 
who  this  day  honour  his  conversion,  may,  by  his  ex- 
ample, learn  to  come  to  thee.  Thro'. 
Oj  St.  PETER,  Deus,  qul  ieato,  as  on  the  Feast  of 

his  Chair  at  Rome,  the  iSth  of  January,  p.  537. 

LESSON.  Acts  vi.  i»  22.— In  those  days:  Saul 
breathing  put  threatening  and  slaughter  against  the 
disciples  of  the  Lord,  went  to  the  high  priest,  and 
asked  of  him  letters  to  Damascus,  to  the  synagogues, 
that  if  he  found  any  men  and  women  of  this  way, 
he  might  bring  them  bound  to  Jerusalem.  And  as 
he  went  on  his  journey,  it  came  to  pass  thathedrew 
nigh  to  Damascus:  and  suddenly  a  light  from  hea- 
ven shined  round  about  him.  And  falling  on  the 
ground  he  heard  a  voice  saying  to  him  :  Saul,  Saul, 
why  ptrsecutest  thou  me  I*  Who  said:  Who  art 
thou,  Lord  ?  And  he  said:  I  am  Jesus  of  Nazareth, 
whom  thou  persecutest.  It  is  hard  for  thee  to  kick 
against  the  goad.  And  he  trembling  and  astonish, 
ed,  said  :  Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me  to  do  ? 
And  the  Lord  said  to  him:  Arise,  and  go  into  the 
city,  and  there  it  shall  be  told  thee  what  thou  must 
do.  Now  the  men  who  went  in  company  with  him 
stood  amazed,  hearing  indeed  a  voice,  but  seeing  no 
man.  And  Saul  arose  from  the  ground,  and  when 
his  eyes  were  opened  he  saw  nothing.  But  they 
leading  him  by  the  hand,  brought  him  to  Damascus. 
And  he  was  there  three  days  without  sight,  and  lie 
did  neither  eat  nor  drink.  Now  there  was  a  certain 


544  t$t1l  JANUARY. 

disciple  at  Damascus,  named  Ananias:  and  the 
Lord  said  to  him  in  a  vision ;  Ananias.  And  he 
said:  Behold  I  am  here.  Lord.  And  the  Lord  said 
to  him :  Arise,  and  go  into  the  street  that  is  called 
Strait,  and  seek  in  the  house  of  .Judas,  one  named 
Saul  of  Tarsus.  For  behold  he  prayeth.  (And  he 
saw  a  man  named  Ananias,  coming  in  and  putting 
his  hands  upon  him,  that  he  might  recover  his  sight.) 
But  Ananias  answered;  Lord,  I  have  heard  by  ma- 
ny of  this  man,  how  much  evil  he  hath  done  to  thy 
saints  in  Jerusalem :  and  here  he  hath  authority  from 
the  chief  priests  to  bind  all  that  invoke  thy  name. 
And  the  Lord  said  to  him:  Go  thy  way,  for  this 
man  is  to  me  a  vessel  of  election,  to  carry  my  name 
before  the  Gentiles,  and  kings,  and  the  children  of 
Israel.  For  I  will  shew  him  how  great  things  he 
must  suffer  for  my  name's  sake.  And  Ananias  went 
his  way,  and  entered  into  the  house :  and  laying  his 
Jiands  upon  him,  he  said:  Brother  Saul,  the  Lord 
Jesus  hath  sent  me,  he  that  appeared  to  thee  in  the 
way  as  thou  earnest;  that  thou  mayest  receive  thy 
sight,  and  be  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost.  And  im- 
mediately there  fell  from  his  eyes  as  it  were  scales, 
and  he  received  his  sight:  and  rising  up  he  was 
baptized.  And  when  he  had  taken  meat,  he  was 
strengthened.  And  he  was  with  the  disciples  that 
were  at  Damascus  for  some  days.  And  immediate. 
ly  he  preached  Jesus  in  the  synagogues,  that  he  is 
the  Son  of  God.  And  all  that  heard  him  were  asto- 
nished, and  said;  Is  not  this  he  who  persecuted  in 
Jerusalem  those  who  called  upon  this  name:  and 
came  hither  for  that  intent  that  he  might  carry  them 
bound  to  the  chief  priests?  But  Saul  increased 
much  more  in  strength,  and  confounded  the  Jews 
who  dwelt  in  Damascus,  affirming  that  this  is  the 
Christ. 

GRAD.     Gal.  ii.— He  that  assisted  Peter  in  the 
apostleship  among  the  Jews,  assisted  me  also  among 


JAM/ARY.  54^ 

the  Gentiles  r  and  they  have  known  the  grace  o 
God  that  was  given  me.  P",  The  grace  of  God  waa 
not  fruitless  in  me:  but  his  grace  always  abideth  in 
me.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  ^reat  St.  Paul  was  a 
chosen  vessel,  and  truly  worthy  of  honour :  who  also 
deserves  to  be  seated  on  a  twelfth  throne.  Alleluia. 
After  Septuag.  instead  of  the  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 

TRACT.  ^Thou,  O' holy  Paul,  the  Apostle,  art 
a  chosen  vessel  :  thou  art  truly  worthy  of  glory. 
V.  Thou  wast  the  preacher  of  truth  and  the  doctor 
of  the  Gentiles  in  the  faith  and  in  the  truth.  K.  By 
thee  all  nations  have  known  the  grace  of  God. 
V.  Intercede  for  us  to  God  who  chose  thee. 

GOSfpd,  Matt.  xix.  as  in  Mass  XV.*    p.  492. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxviii.— -To  me,  O  God,  thy 
friends  are  exceeding  honourable  ;  exceeding  mighty 
is  their  power. 

SECRET,  Sanctify,  &c.  as  p.  538.  Of  St.  PIS- 
TE R,  May  the  intercession,  &c.  ib, 

COMM*  Vrerily  I  say  to  you  :  that  you  who  have 
forsaken  all  things  and  followed  me,  shall  receive 
an  hundred  fold,  and  obtain  eternal  life. 

P.  COMM.  Of  St.  P£TER,  May,  &c,  as  w  th< 
i8t/i  instant^  p.  539, 

XXVI.     St.  POLYCARP,  bp.  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  II.  p.  464,  excent 
EPISTLE,  i  John  ill.  10,  16  —Most  dearly  be* 
lored  :  Whosoever  is  not  just,  is  not  of  God,  nor  he 
that  loveth  not  his  brother.  For  this  is  the  declara- 
tion, which  you  have  heard  from  the  beginning, 
that  >ou  should  love  one  another.  Not  as  Cain, 
who  was  of  the  wicked  one,  and  killed  his  brother. 
And  wherefore  did  he  kill  him?  Because  his  owu 
works  were  wicked :  and  his  brother's  just*  Won- 
der not,  brethren,  if  the  world  hate  you.  We  know- 
that  we  have  passed  from  death  to  lift1,  because  "&€ 

fca 


546  Zjth  &  28£/i  JANUARY. 

love  the  brethren.  He  that  loveth  not  ab'deth  in 
death.  Whosoever  hateth  his  brother,  is  a  murder, 
er.  And  you  know  that  no  murderer  hath  eternal  life 
abiding  in  himself.  In  this  we  have  known  the  cha- 
rity of  God,  because  he  hath  laid  down  his  life  for 
us :  and  we  ought  to  lay  down  our  lives  for  the  bre- 
thren. 

(000pel,  Matt.  x.  and  P.  COMM.  Refecti, 
as  in  p.  469. 

XXVII.     St.  JOHN  CHRYSOSTOM,  bp.  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIT.  p.  485,  except 
COLLECT,  Ecclesiam.-- •  May  thy  heavenly  grace, 
\ve  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  enlarge  the  Church  which 
thou  hast  been  pleased  to  enlighten  by  the  resplen- 
dent virtues  and  learning  of  blessed  John  thy  Con* 
lessor  and  Bishop.  Thro*. 

GRAD.  Behold  a  great  Prelate,  who  in  his  days 
pleased  God.  T.  There  was  none  found  like  him 
in  keeping  the  law  of  the  Most  High.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia*  F.  Blessed  is  the  man  who  surTereth 
temptation,  for  \vheu  he  hath  been  tried  he  shall 
receive  a  crown  of  life.  Alleluia. 

XXVIII.     St.  AGNES,  v,  m.  a  second  time. 

INTROIT,    Vultum  tuum,  p,  499. 

COLLECT^  Dens,  gui — O  God,  who  rejoicest 
us  by  the  yearly  solemnity  of  B  Agnes,  thy  v.  and 
m. ;  grant,  we  beseech  .thee,  that  we  may  imitate  her 
life,  to  whose  memory  we  pay  mis  honour  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  Gradual,  and  Trad,  as  in  p.  5^0. 

d£>00p£l)    Matt,  xiii,  as  in  p.  501. 

OFFERT.  Grace  ',  .-.pread  on  thy  lips,  therefore 
hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever. 

SECRET.  May  thy  blessing,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
'Lord,  plentifully  descend  upon  these  our  offerings, 
that  through  thy  mercy  they  may  both  sanctify  us 


l9//«  &  3'S'  JAN.  &  ist  FEBRUARY.  54? 

and  cause  \is  to  rejoice  in  the  solemnity  of  thy  mar- 
tyrs. Thro'. 

COMM.  The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  like  to  a 
merchant  seeking  good  pearls,  who  having  found 
one  of  great  value,  \vent  and  sold  all  his  possessions 
and  bought  it. 

P.  COMM*  Suwpshmts. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that  the  votive  mysteries  we  have  received 
on  tins  annual  solemnity,  may  both  succour  us  in 
this  temporal  life,  and  procure  for  us  that  which  will 
have  no  end.  Thro1. 

XXIX.     St.  FRANCIS  de  SALES. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.  *  />,  482,  except 
COLLECT,  Dcus,  ywi—  O  God,  who  for  the 
salvation  of  souls  was  pleased  that  B.  Francis,  thy 
conf.  and  bp.  should  become  all  to  all:  mercifully 
grant,  that,  being  plentifully  enriched  with  the  sweet- 
ness  of  thy  charity,  by  following  his  directions,  and 
by  the  help  of  his  merits,  we  may  obtain  life  ever- 
lasting.  Thro*. 

XXXI.     St.  PETER  NOLASCUS,  c. 

AIL  as  In  Mass  XIV.  ^.489,  except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui. — O  God,  who,  in  imita- 
tion of  thy  charily,  didst  inspire  B.  Peter  to  institute 
a  new  order  in  the  Church  for  the  redemption  of 
captives;  grant,  by  his  intercession,  that  being  deli- 
ven-.i  fr-iin  the  slavery  of  sin,  we  may  enjoy  everlast- 
ing liberty  in  our  heavenly  country  Thro'. 

wry  I.     St.  IGNATIUS,  bp.  m. 
INTROJT,  GV.  vi.. -God  forbid  I  should  glory 

in  anv  thing  biit  in  the  cross  ofour  Lord  Jesus  Christ : 
.    by  whom  the  world  is  crucified  to  me,  and  1  to  the 
\\orld.     Ps   cxxxi.  Remember  David,  O  Lord,  and 
all  his  meekness  in  suffering.     F.  Glory. 


54$  *d  FEBRUARY. 

COLL.  $«CR.  and  P.  COMM.  as  in  Mass  I.  77.46*, 

EPISTLE,  Rom.  viii.  35,  39.-—  Brethren:  Who 
then  shall  separate  us  from  the  love  of  Christ?  shall 
tribulation?  o*  distress?  or  famine?  or  nakedness  ? 
or  danger?  or  persecution  ?  or  the  sword  ?  (As  it  is 
written ;  "For  thy  sake  we  are  put  to  death  all  the 
day  long.  We  are  accounted  as  sheep  for  the 
slaughter.**)  But  in  all  these  things  we  overcome, 
because  of  him  that  hath  loved  us.  For  I  am  sure 
that  neither  death,  nor  life,  nor  angels,  nor  princi- 
palities, nor  powers,  nor  things  present,  nor  things 
to  come,  nor  might,  nor  height,  nor  depth,  nor  any 
other  creature,  shall  be  able  to  separate  us  from  the 
love  of  God,  which  is  in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord. 

GRADUAL,  Behold,  as  on  January  27,  p.  546. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia*    V.  Gal.  ii.— I  am  nailed  with 
Christ  to  his  cross ;  I  live,  but  now  it  is  not  1,  but 
Christ  that  liveth  in  me.    Alleluia. 
•After  Septuag.  instead  (/Alleluia  and  V.  is  said  the, 

TRACT,  Desidermm,  p.  462. 
(BOSfpCl)  John  xii*  as  on  St.  Laurence,  Aug.  10, 

OFFERT.  Thou  hast  crowned,  as  in  p.  467. 

COMM.  I  am  the  wheat  of  Christ:  I  am  to  be 
ground  by  the  teeth  of  wild  beasts,  that  I  may  be 
found  pure  bread. 

II.    PURIFICATION  of  the  B.  V,  MARY. 

^PHIS  feast  is  kept,  not  only  in  remembrance  of  our  Sa-* 
viour's  Pn  sentation  in  the  Temple  40,  days  after  his> 
birth,  (in  compliance  with  the  law  of  Moses,  Lev.  xii.) 
but  alfo  in  commemoration  of  H i  s  BLESSED  MOTHER'S 
PURIFYING  HERSELF,  by  offering  that  sacrifice  in  the 
temple,  which  was  prescribed  by  the  same  law.  Its  in- 
stitution must  be  of  an  early  date,  since  we  find  mention 
made  of  it  in  the  5th  century.  By  the  distribution  of  the 
blessed  candles,  the  faithful  are  exhorted  to  be  as  piously 
disposed  as  holy  SIMEON  was  when  he  took  Christ  in  his 
arms,  and  prophesied  that  he  should  become  the  LI 5 MY. 


id  FEBRUARY.  549 

of  the  Gentiles  and  the  c  t  o  R  Y  of  Israel.  Let  us  therefore 
receive  the  candles  from  the  hands  of  the  Priest  with  a  be- 
coming piety,  as  an  emblem  of  Christ,  who  is  the  light  of 
our  souls,  and  with  him  let  us  also  offer  up  ourselves,  as 
purified  by  his  blood  to  his  Eternal  Father. 

At  the  BLESSING  of  the  CANDLES. 

The  Lord  be  with  you.    H.  And  with  thy  spirit* 
Let  us  pray.     Domine  sancte. 

HOLY  Lord,  Father  Almighty,  and  Eternal  God, 
who  didst  create  all  things  out  of  nothing, 
ana  by  the  labour  of  the  bees  following  thy  com- 
mands, hast  brought  this  liquor  to  the  perfection  of 
wax;  and  who,  on  this  day,  didst  accomplish  th$ 
desire  of  the  righteous  Simeon,  we  humbly  beseech 
thee,  that  by  the  invocation  of  thy  most  holy  name, 
and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Mary,  ever  a  vir- 
gin, whose  festival  we  this  day  devoutly  celebrate, 
and  by  the  prayers  of  all  thy  saints,  thou  wouldst 
vouchsafe  to  bless  »J«  and  sanctify  »{•  these  candles, 
for  the  service  of  men,  and  for  the  good  of  their  bo. 
dies  and  souls  in  all  places;  and  that  thou  wouldst 
please  mercifully  to  hear  from  thy  holy  temple,  and 
from  the  throne  of  thy  majesty,  the  prayers  of  this 
thy  people,  who  desire  to  carry  them  in  their  hands 
with  reverence,  and  with  sacred  hymns  to  praise  thy 
name;  and  shew  mercy  to  all  that  cry  out  unto 
thee,  whom  thou  hast  redeemed  by  the  precious 
blood  of  thy  beloved  Son :  who  liveth.  JR.  Amen.' 
Let  us  pray.  Omnipotent  sempiterne  Dcus. 

O  Almighty  and  Eternal  God,  who,  on  this  dav» 
wast  pleased  that  thy  only  Son  should  be  pre, 
sented  in  the  temple,  and  be  received  into  the  arm$ 
of  holy  Simeon :  we  humbly  beseech  thy  mercy  to 
bless  4-,  sanctify  >|*,  and  give  the  light  <y  thy  hea- 
venly benediction  to  these  candles,  which  we  thy 
servants  desire  to  carry  in  honour  of  ihy  name;  that 
by  offering  them  to  thee,  our  Lord  God,  we  may  be 
inflamed  with  the  fire  of  thy  sweet  loye,  and  niad^ 


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worthy  to  be  presented  in  the  holy  temple  of  thy 
glory.     Thro' the  same.     JR.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray.     Domine  Jesu. 

LORD  Jdsus  Christ,  the  true  light,  that  enlight- 
eneth  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world: 
pour  forth  thy  blessing  *J*  upon  these  candles,  and 
sanctify  *f«  them  by  the  light  of  thy  grace:  and  grant 
in  thy  mercy,  that  as  these  candles,  by  their  visible 
light,  dispel  the  darkness  of  the  night,  so  our  hearts, 
burning  with  invisible  fire,  and  enlightened  by  the 
grace  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  may  be  delivered  from  all 
blindness  of  sin  :  that,  the  eye  of  our  soul  being  pu» 
rified,  we  may  discern  those  things  that  are  pleasing 
to  thee,  and  beneficial  to  our  souls;  that  after  hav- 
ing finished  the  darksome  passage  of  this  life,  we 
tnay  come  to  never-fading  joys  through  thee,  O  Je- 
sus Christ,  the  Saviour  of  the  world,  who,  in  perfect 
Trinity  livest.  JR.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray*     Omnipotens  sempiterne* 

OAl-viebty  and  Eternal  Godf  who,  by  thy  ser- 
vant Moses,  commandedst  the  purest  oil  to  be 
prepared  for  lamps,  continually  to  burn  in  thy  pre* 
sence,  mercifully  pour  forth  the  grace  of  thy  bless- 
ing ^  on  there  candles:  that  as  they  supply  us  with 
visible  light,  so,  b>  rhv  assistance,  the  light  of  thy 
Spirit  may  never  be  wanting  inwardly  in  our  souls. 
Thro%  JR«  Amen. 

Let  us  pray*     Domine  Jesu* 

LORD  Jtsus  Christ,  who,  appearing  amongst 
men  in  the  substance  of  our  flesh,  wast  pleased 
this  day  to  be  presented  in  the  temple  by  thy  pa- 
rents, and  whom  the  venerable  Simeon,  enlightened 
by  the  Holy  Ghost,  publicly  confessing,  received  in 
his  amis,  and  blessed  :  mercifully  grant,  that,  being 
inspired  and  taught  by  the  grace  of  the  same  holy 
Spirit,  we  may  sincerely  acknowledge  and  faithfully 
love  thee ;  who  with  God  the  Father,  in  the  unity 
of  the  same  holy  Spirit,  livest,  &c.  jft.  Amen* 


2£/   FEBRUARY.  5£r 

Jlrrc  the  Priest  having  put  incense  in   the  Censer 
sprinkles  the  Candles  with  holy  Water,   saying, 
Sprinkle,  &c.  /?.  xiii.  without  the  Ps.     After  jum* 
•i«£tho.'m  he  distributes  them  to  the  Faithful,  who 
receive  them  kneeling,  first   kissing  the  Candle, 
and   then  the  Hand  of  the  Priest.     During  the 
Distribution  of  the  Candles  in  sung, 
ANT,  Lumen  ad  revelationem  Gentium,  et  glo- 

riam  plebis  tuse  Israel. 

CANTICLE,  Luke  ii. 

N'UNC  dimittis  servum  tuum  Domine:  *  secun- 
dum  verbum  tuum  m  pace.     Ant.  Lumen,  &c. 
Quia  vide  runt  oculi   mei :    *    sal u tare   tuum.— 
Ant.  Lumen,  &c. 

Quod  parasti  *  ante  faciem  omnium  populorum. 
Ant.  Lumen,  &c. 

Gloria  Patri,  &c.    Ant.  Tyumen,  &c. 
Sicut  erat  in  principio,  &c.     Ant.  Lumen,  &c. 

Then  is  sung  the  following 

Ant.  Exurge  Domine  adjuva  nos :  et  libera  nos 
propter  nomen  tuum.  Ps.  Deus  auribus  nostris  aiulU 
vim  us ;  patres  nostri  annuntiaverunt  nobis.  K.Gloria. 

Ant.  Exurge,  to  Ps. 
After  Septuag.   when  this  Festival  does  not  fall  on  a 

Sunday,  is  said, 

P.  JFlectamus  genua.  R.  Legate. 
PRAYER.  Exuudi  ...Give  ear,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  to  thy  people:  that  what  we  outwardly 
perform  by  this  yearly  devotion,  we  may  inwardly 
obtain  the  effects  of,  by  the  light  of  thy  grace. 
Thro'.  Amen. 

At  Mass  the  Candles  arc  held  lighted  during  the  Cos- 
pel,  and  from  the  Consecration,  ////  ujtcr  the  Com- 
munion. 

INTROIT,  *  Suscepimus,  as  in  p.  411. 
COLLECT.  Ow/upofens.—Q  Almighty  and  Eter- 
rial  God,  we  humbly  beseech  thy   divine  majt-sty, 
,s  thy  only  Son  iu  the  substance  of  our  fi^sh, 


552  id   FEBRUARY* 

was  this  Jay  presented  in  the  temple,  so  our  souls, 
being  perfectly  cleansed,  may  become  a  pure  obla- 
tion and  he  presented  to  thee.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Mai.  iii.  1,4.— T/ws  saith  the  Lord  - 
God:  Behold  I  send  my  angel,  and  he  shall  prepare 
the  way  before  my  face.  And  presently  the  Lord 
whom  you  seek,  and  the  angel  of  the  Testament 
•whom  you  desire,  shall  come  to  his  temple.  Be- 
hold he  cometh,  saith  the  Lord  of  hosts:  and  who 
shall  be  able  to  think  of  the  day  of  his  coming  ?  and 
who  shall  stand  to  see  him  ?  For  he  is  like  a  refining 
fire,  and  like  the  fullers  herb:  and  he  shall  sit  refin* 
Ing  and  cleansing  the  silver,  and  he  shall  purify  the 
sons  of  Levi,  and  shall  refine  them  as  gold,  and  as 
silver,  and  ther  shall  offer  sacrifices  to  the  Lord  in 
justice.  And  the  sacrifice  of  Judea  and  Jerusalem 
shall  please  the  Lord,  as  in  the  days  of  old,  and  in 
the  ancient  years  :  saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

'Git  AD.  Ps.  xlvii. — We  have  received  thy  mercy, 
O  God,  in  the  midst  of  thy  temple:  thy  praise,  O 
God,  as  well  as  thy  name,  is  spread  to  the  ends  of 
ihe  earth.  V.  As  we  have  heard,  so  we  have  seen 
it  come  to  pass  in  the  city  of  our  God,  on  his  holy 
mountain.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  old  man 
carried  the  Child,  and  the  Child  governed  the  old 
man.  Alleluia. 

After  Scptuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 
TRACT.  Nunc  dimi'tti/.— Now  thou  dost  dis- 
miss thy  servant,  O  Lord,  according  to  thy  word,  in 
peace.  Because  my  eyes  have  seen  thy  promised 
salvation.  Which  thon  hast  now  prepared  to  shew 
unto  all  nations.  A  lig'ut  to  enlighten  the  Gentiles, 
and  the  glory  of  thy  people  Israel. 

(BOJfptU      Luke  ii.  22,   32 At   that  time: 

When  the  days  of  the  purification  of  Mary,  accord, 
ing  to  the  law  of  Moses,  were  accomplished,  they 
carried  Jesus  to  Jerusalem,  to  present  him  to  the 
.Lord.  As  it  is  written  in  the  )aw  of  the  Lord,  Every 


id  FEri&UAiir.  553 

ry  mate  opening  the  womb  shall  be  called  holy  to  the 
Lord.  And  to  offer  a  sacrifice  according  as  it  is 
written  in  the  law  of  the  Lord,  a  pair  of  turtle  doves, 
or  two  young  pigeons.  And  behold  there  was  a 
man  in  Jerusalem  named  Simeon,  and  this  man  was 
just  and  devout,  waiting  for  the  consolation  of  Is- 
rael:  and  the  Holy  Ghost  was  in  him.  And  he 
liad  received  an  answer  from  the  Holy  Ghost,  that 
he  should  not  see  death,  before  he  had  seen  the 
Christ  of  the  Lord.  And  he  came  by  the  Spirit  in- 
to the  temple.  And  when  his  parents  brought  in 
the  child  Jesus,  to  do  for  him  according  to  the£cus« 
torn  of  the  law,  he  also  took  him  into  his  arms,  and 
blessed  God,  and  said  :  Now  thou  dost  dismiss  thy 
servant,  O  Lord,  according  to  thy  word,  in  peace* 
Because  my  eyes  have  seen  thy  salvation,  which  thou 
hast  prepared  before  the  face  of  all  people  :  a  light 
to  the  revelation  of  the*  Gentiles,  and  the  glory  of 
thy  people  Israel.  CREDO. 

OFFER'!1.  Ps.  xliv,— Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips, 
therefore  hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever  and  ever. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  hear  our  prayers,  O  Lordj 
and  grant  us  the  assistance  of  thy  mercy,  that  what 
we  offer  to  thy  divine  majesty  may  be  worthy  to  be 
accepted.  Thro'. 

PREFACE,  Quia  per  incarnati,  p.  xxx. 

COMM.  Luke  i — Simeon  received  an  answer 
from  the  Holy  Ghost,  that  he  should  not  see  death 
till  he  beheld  the  Christ  of  the  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Quesurnus.  —  We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord  our  God,  that  the  sacred  mysteries  we  have  re» 
ceived  to  preserve  our  new  life,  may,  by  the  inter- 
cession of  B.  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin,  become  a  remedy 
to  us  both  now  and  for  the  future.  Thro'. 
When  the  Purification/^//*  on  Septuagesima,  Sexa- 

gesima,  or  Quinquagesima  Sunday,  although  the 

Candles  are  blessed,  4-0.  yet  the  Mas*  is  deferred 
till  next  i)ay. 

3  A 


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IV.  St.  ANDREW  CORSINI,  bp.c. 

All  as  in  Mass  X*.  p.  482,  except 
COLLECT-  D^s,  qui — O  God,  who  in  every 
age  furnishest  the  Church  with  fresh  examples  of 
virtue :  grant  thy  faithful  so  closely  to  imitate  blessed 
Andrew,  thy  Confessor  and  Bp.  as  to  be,  one  da)', 
partakers  in  his  reward.  Thro'. 


V.  St.  AGATHA,  v.  m. 

*'    All  as  in  Mass  XVI,  p.  493,  except 

TNTROIT.  Let  us  rejoice  in  the  Lord,  and  ce- 
lebrate this  festival  in  honour  of  blessed  Agatha  the 
Martyr,  for  whose  martyrdom  the  angels  rejoice, 
mid  join  in  the  praises  of  the  Son  of  God.  Ps.  My 
heart  hath  uttered  a  good  word :  I  refer  my  works  to 
the  king.  V.  Glory, 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  i.  26.  31.  ...  Brethren:  See 
your  vocation  :  there  are  not  many  wise  according 
ito  the  flesh,  not  many  mighty,  not  many  noble :  but 
the  foolish  things  of  this  world  hath  God  chosen, 
that  he  may  confound  the  wise:  and  the  weak 
things  of  the  world  hath  God  chosen,  that  he  may 
confound  tLe  strong ;  and  the  base  things  of  the 
-y/orld,  and  the  things  that  are  contemptible  hath 
God  chosen,  and  things'  that  are  not,  that  he  might 
bring  to  nought  things  that  are,  that  no  flesh  should 
glory  in  his  sight.  But  of  him  are  you  in  Christ 
Jesus,  who  of  God  is  made  unto  us  wisdom,  and 
Justice,  and  sanctification,  and  redemption  :  that, 
'as  it  is  written,  He  that  glorieth,  may  glory  in  the 
Lord. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xlv — God  will  assist  her  with  his 
looks:  God  is  in  her,  and  she  shall  not  fail,  V.  A 
swift  running  stream  rejoiceth  the  city  of  God  :  the 
Most  High  hath  consecrated  his  tabernacle.  Allel. 


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Allel.     V.  I  spoke  of  thy  law  in  the  presence  of 
kings,  and  I  was  not  ashamed.     Alleluia. 

After  Septuag.  instead  of  Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 

TRACT,  Qui  st/ninant,  ^.476. 
C50£pCl+  Mutt.  xix.  3.  12.—  At  that  time  i 
The  Pharisees  came  to  Jesus  to  tempt  him,  saying  : 
Is  it  lawful  for  a  man  to  put  away  his  wife  for  every 
cause  ?  Who  answering,  said  to  them  :  ETave  ye  not 
read,  that  he  who  made  man  from  the  beginning,. 
made,  I  hem  mule  and  female  i  And  he  said  :  For  this 
cause  shall  a  man  Icarc  father  and  mother,  and  shall 
cleave  to  his  wife^  and  they  two  shall  be  in  one  flesh. 
Therefore  now  they  are  not  two,  but  one  flesh. 
What  therefore  God  hath  joined  together,  let  no 
man  put  asunder.  They  say  to  him:  Why  did 
Moses  command  to  give  a  bill  of  divorce,  and  to 
put  away  ?  He  saith  to  them  :  Because  Moses,  by 
reason  of  the  hardness  of  your  heart,  permitted  you 
to  put  away  your  wives  :  but  from  the  beginning  it 
was  not  so.  And  I  say  to  you,  that  whosoever  shall 
put  away  his  wife,  except  it  be  for  fornication, 
and  shall  marry  another,  conimitteth  adultery  ;  and 
he  that  shall  marry  her  that  is  put  away,  conimitteth 
adultery.  His  disciples  say  to  him:  If  the  case 
of  a  man  with  his  wife  be  so,  it  is  not  expedient  to 
marry.  Who  said  to  them:  All  men  take  not  this 
word,  but  they  to  whom  it  is  given.  For  there  are 
eunuchs,  who  were  born  so  from  their  mother's 
womb:  and  there  are  eunuchs,  who  were  made  so 
by  men:  and  there  are  eunuchs,  who  have  made 
themselves  eunuchs  for  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  He 
that  can  take,  let  him  take  it. 

COMM.  He  who  vouchsafed  to  heal  all  my 
wounds,  and  restore  my  breast  to  my  body,  is  the 
living  God,  whom  1  call  upon. 


10th  &  1-frM  FEBRUARY. 


VIII.  St.  JOHN  of  MATH  A,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XIII,  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.     Deus  —  O  God,  who  by  holy  John 
was  pleased,  under  thy   heavenly  directions,  to  in- 
stitute the  Order  of  the  most  Holy  Trinity,  for  the 
redemption  of  captives  out  of  the  hands  of  the  Sara- 
cens: grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  by  his  merits  we 
may  be  delivered,  by  thy  grace,  from  all  captivity 
of  both  body  and  mind.     Thro'. 

X,  St.  SCHOLASTiCA,  v. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIX.  p.  498*  except 
COLLECT,     Deus,  qui.—Q  God,    who  to  re- 
commend to  us  innocence  of  life,  wast  pleased  to  let- 
the  soul  of  thy  blessed  Virgin  Scholastica  ascend  to 
heaven  in  the  shape  of  a  dove;  grant,  by  her  merits 
and  prayers,  that  we  may  lead  innocent  lives  heref 
and  ascend  to  eternal  joys  hereafter.     Thro*. 

XIV.  St.  VALENTINE,  pr.  and  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  III.  p.  466,  except 
COLLECT.  Pr^ta.  —  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  solemnize  the  fes- 
tival of  blessed  Valentine,  thy  Martyr,  may,  by  his 
instruction  be  delivered  from  all  the  evils  that 
threaten  us.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  we  beseech 
thee,  with  the  offerings  we  have  made,  and  by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  Valentine,  thy  martyr,  defend 
us  from  all  dangers.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM  Sit  nobis.  -  -  May  this  divine  sacra- 
Tnent  strength  en  us,  O  Lord,  both  in  body  and  soul, 
that  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Valentine,  thy 
martyr,  we  may  receive  the  effects  of  what  we  cele- 
brate. Thro*. 


24th  Of    }$th  FEBRUARY.  557 

XXIV.  or  XXV.  St.  MATTHIAS,  ap. 

1NTROIT,  Mihi  autem,  as  in  p.  524. 

COLLECT.  jDtus.— O  God,  who  didst  add  B. 
Matthias  to  the  number  of  thy  Apostles,  grant,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  by  his  prayers  \ve  may  be  ever 
sensible  of  the  effects  of  thy  mercy.  Thro/ 

LESSON.  Acts  i.  15.  26.  —  In  those  days  : 
Peter  rising  up  in  the  midst  of  the  brethren,  said  i 
(now  the  number  of  persons  together  w;  s  about  an 
hundred  and  twenty,)  Men  brethren,  the  scripture 
must  needs  be  fulfilled  which  the  Holy  Ghost  spoke 
before  by  the  mouth  of  David  concerning  Judas,  who 
was  the  leader  of  them  that  apprehended  Jesus :  who 
wns  numbered  with  us,  and  had  obtained  part  of  this 
ministry.  And  he  indeed  hath  possessed  a  field  of 
the  reward  of  iniquity,  and  being  hanged  burst 
asunder  in  the  midst:  and  all  his  bowels  gushed  out. 
And  it  became  known  to  all  the  inhabitants  of Jeru. 
salem  :  so  that  the  same  field  was  called  in  their 
tongue  Haceldama,  that  is  to  say,  the  field  of 
blood.  For  it  is  written  in  the  book  of  Psalms ; 
Let  their  habitation  become  desolate,  and  let  there  be 
HQHC  to  dwell  therein.  And  his  bishopric  let  another 
take,.  Wherefore  of  these  men  who  have  compa- 
nied  with  us,  all  the  time  that  the  Lord  Jesus  came 
in  and  went  out  among  us,  beginning  from  the  bap. 
tism  of  John  until  the  day  wherein  he  was  *afcen  up 
from  us,  one  of  these  must  be  made  a  witness  with 
ns  of  his  resurrection.  And  they  appointed  two, 
Joseph,  called  Barsabas,  who  was  surnamed  Justus, 
and  Matthias.  And  praying  they  said-  Thou,  Lord, 
who  knowest  the  hearts  of  all  men,  shew  whether  of 
these  two  thou  hast  chosen,  to  take  the  place  of 
this  ministry  and  apostleship,  from  which  Judas  hath 
bv  transgression  fallen,  that  he  might  go  to  his  own, 
place.  And  they  gave  them  lots,  and  the  lot  fell 


555  S 

upon  Matthias,  and  he  was  numbered  with  the  ele- 
ven  apostles. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxviii. — Thy  friends,  O  God,  are 
truly  honourable:  exceeding  mighty  is  their  power* 
V.  I  will  set  about  to  number  them ;  but  their  num. 
ber  will  be  found  to  exceed  the  sands  of  the  sea. 

TRACT,  Deslderium  animcE,  p.  46 2. 

(3pQ£fp£l?    Matt,  xi.   as  on  j  ^th  January,  p,  535. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xliv.— Thou  wilt  make  them  rulers 
over  the  whole  earth:  they  shall  be  mindful  of  thy 
name,  O  Lord,  from  generation  to  generation. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  Lord,  that  (the  prayer  of 
B.  Matthias,  thy  ap.  accompanying  the  offerings  we 
make  to  thy  holy  name)  we  may  be  both  cleansed 
from  our  sins,  and  defended  thereby.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt.  xix. — You  who  have  followed  me, 
shall  sit  on  thrones,  judging  the  12  tribes  of  Israel. 

P.  COMM.  Prasta.-. -Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  by  virtue  of  the  sacrament 
we  have  received,  and  the  intercession  of  B.  Mat- 
thias,  thy  ap  we  may  obtain  the  pardon  of  our  sins, 
and  peace.  Thro'. 


March  II.    St.  CHAD,  Bp.  of  Litchfield. 

All  as  in  Mass  XL  p.  484,  except 
COLLECT.  Omnipotent. — Almighty  and  eternal 
God,  who  r^joicest  us  this  day  in  the  obervation  of 
the  festival  of  B.  Chad,  thy  Conf.  and  Bp.  we  hum- 
b!y  beseech  thy  clemency,  that,  as  we  devoutly 
observe  his  solemnity,  we  may  through  his  interces- 
sion obtain  the  reward  of  eternal  lite.  Thro1 

SECRET.  Be  favourable,  O  Lord,  to  our  pray- 
ers :  and  grant,  by  the  intercession  of  B.Chad,  thy 
c.  and  bp.  that  by  assisting  at  these  mysteries,  we 
may  be  delivered  from  all  sin,  and  purified  by -thy 
Thro*. 


4th  &  j!h  MARCH.  ^  559 

P.   COMM.    Prasta. — Grant,   we  beseech  thee, 

0  Lord  our  God,  that  we  who  have  offered  to  thee 
these  divine  mysteries,   may  obtain  thy  mercy,  and 
advance  to  a  full  enjoyment  of  them  above.     Thro'. 

IV.     St.  CASIMIR,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p  488,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus,  gui.—O  God,  who  amidst 
the  delights  of  a  court,  and  the  attractive  snares  of 
the  world,  didst  preserve  holy  Casimir  constant  and 
faithful  in  thy  service  ;  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that 
by  his  intercession,  thy  people  may  despise  the  tran- 
sitory things  of  this  world,  and  eagerly  pursue  those 
that  are  everlasting.  Thro'. 

Here  is  made  a  Comment,  of  St.  Lucius,  l>y  the 
Collect,  &c.  <y'Mass  II.  p.  464. 

VII.     St.  THOMAS  of  AQUIN,  c,  D. 

All  as  in  Mass  XII.  /?•  48  r,  except 
COLLECT.  De«.«,  qui.—O  God,  who  bv  the 
wonderful  learning  of  blessed  Thomas,  thy  Con. 
fessor,  hast  illustrated  thy  Church,  and  by  his  virtues 
hast  enlarged  it ;  grant,  \ve  beseech  thee,  that  we 
may  understand  what  he  taught,  and,  in  our  lives, 
follow  what  he  practised.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  U'i^l.  vii.  7.  14. — I  wished,  and  un- 
derstanding was  given  me;  and  I  called  upon  God, 
and  the  spirit  of  wisdom  came  upon  me;  and  I  pre- 
ferred her  before  kingdoms  and  thrones,  and  esteem- 
ed riches  nothing  in  comparison  of  her.  Neither  did 

1  compare  unto  her  a;.  s  stone,    for  all  gold 
in  comparison  of  her  is  as  a  little  sand,  and  silver  in 
resp.-ct  to  her  shall  be  counted  a;  clay.    I  loved  her 
above  health  and  beauty,  and  chose  to  have  her  in. 
stead  of  light,  for  her  light  cannot  be  put  out.  Now- 
all  good  things  came  to  me  together  with  her,  and 
innumerable  riches  through  her  hands.    And  I  re- 


560  gth&loth    MARCH. 

joiced  in  them  all :  for  this  wisdom  went  before  me, 
and  I  knew  not  that  she  was  the  mother  of  them  all. 
Which  I  have  learned  without  guile,  and  communi- 
cate withoyt  envy,  and  her  riches  1  hide  not.  For 
she  is  an  infinite  treasure  to  men,  which  they  that 
use  become  the  friends  of  God,  being  commended 
for  the  gifts  of  discipline. 

IX.  St.  FRANCES,  w. 

All  as  in  Mass  XXI.  p.  502,  except 

COLLECT,  Deus.-->Q  God,  who  amongst  other 

privileges  of  thy  grace,  didst  honour  B.  Frances,  thy 

handmaid,  with   the  familiar  company  of  Angels; 

grant,  we  beseech  thee,  by  her  prayers,  that  we  also 

may  be  admitted  into  their  society.     Thro*. 

X,    The  FORTY  MARTYRS. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xxxiii.— The  righteous  cried  outt 
and  the  Lord  heard  them:  and  delivered  them  from, 
all  their  distress.  Ps.  1  will  bless  the  Lord  at  all 
times:  his  praise  shall  be  for  ever  in  my  mouth.  V. 
Glory. 

COLLECT.   Prasta.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  i 
O  Almighty  God,  that  as  we  have  seen  the  courage  ; 
of  thy  holy  martyrs,  in  the  confession  of  thy  faith,  so 
\ve  may  experience  their  kindness  in  interceding  with 
thee  for  us.     Thro*. 

EPISTLE,    Heb.  xi.  as  on  Jan.  20,  p.  540. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxii. — Behold  how  good  and  de»  | 
lightful  it  is  for  brethren  to  live  in  peace.  V.  It  is  ! 
like  the  perfumed  oil,  which  from  the  head,  came  . 
down  all  over  the  beard  of  Aaron. 

TRACT,  Qui  sewnant,  as  in  Mass  VII.  p.  476, 
and  GOSPEL,  Luke  v\,  from  Mass  VIII.  ^.478, 

OFFERT.     P/.  xxxi. — Rejoice  in  the  Lord,  and  j 
"be  glad,  O  ye  righteous 5  and  praise  him  all  ye  up- 
right of  heart  i 


llth  &  12th  MARCH.  5$I 

SF.CRET.     Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  on 

j  :he  sacrifice  we  offer  thee;  and  grant,  by  the  inter- 
o  ^ion  of  thy  martyrs,  that  it  may  increase  our  devo- 
tion, and  avail  to  our  salvation.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Matt,  xii Whoever  shall  do  the  will 

of  my  Father,  who  is  in  heaven,  the  same  is  my 
brother,  sister,  and  mother,  saiththe  Lord. 

P.  COMM.  Qu<esu?nus.~ We  beseech  thee,  O  Al- 
mighty God,  that  we  may  one  day  obtain  the  effects 
of  that  salvation,  of  which  we  have  received  the 
pledge  in  these  mysteries.  Thro*. 

XI.  St  JOHN  of  GOD,    c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI I L  p.  488,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  gui.  —  O  God,  who  didst 
grant  thy  servant  John,  being  inflamed  with  the  fire 
of  thy  love,  to  walk  without  hurt  through  the  midst 
of  flames,  and  by  him  didst  institute  a  new  order  in 
thy  Church :  grant,  by  his  merits,  that  the  fire  of 
thy  charity  may  cure  our  diseased  souls,  and  obtain 
for  us  eternal  remedies. 

OE>00p£l,    Matt.  xxii.  as  in  p.  432. 

XII.  St.  GREGORY,  p.  c. 

INTRO1T,     Sacerdotes  tui,  p.  484. 

COLLECT.  Deus>  qui. — O  God,  who  hast  re- 
warded the  soul  of  blessed  Gregory,  thy  servant, 
with  eternal  biiss:  mercifully  grant  that  we  who 
are  oppressed  by  the  weight  of  our  sins,  may  find 
relief  by  his  intercession.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  2  Tun.  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  486. 

GRAD.  The  Lord  hath  sworn,  and  he  will  not 
repent,  thou  art  a  priest  for  ever  according  to  the 
order  of  Melchlsedech.  V.  The  Lord  said  to  my 
Lord,  sit  thou  at  my  right  hand. 

'1  RACT,  Btatus  vir,  as  in  p.  ^65. 


l^th  &  igtk  MARCH. 

fpCl,   Matt.  v.  as  in  p.  487. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  OLord,  by 
the  intercession  of  blessed  Gregory,  that  this  sacri- 
fice may  be  beneficial  to  us,  by  the  offering  of 
which  thou  hast  been  pleased  to  cancel  the  sins  of 
the  world.  Thro'. 

COMM.  This  is  the  prudent  and  faithful  servant, 
v.hom  the  Lord  placed  over  his  family,  to  give 
them  their  measure  of  wheat  in  due  season, 

P.  COMM.  Deus,  gui. —  O  God,  who  didst 
equal  blessed  Gregory,  thy  Bp.  to  the  rest  of  thy 
saints  in  merit:  merciifully  grant,  that  as  we  cele- 
brate his  memory,  we  may  also  follow  his  example. 
Thro'. 

XVII.    St.  PATRICK,  ap.  and  patron  of  Ireland. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.*  p.  482,  except 
COLLECT.  Deust  gui.  .„  O  God,  who  wast 
pleased  to  send  blessed  Patrick,  thy  Bishop  and 
Coniessor,  to  preach  thy  glory  to  the  Gentiles: 
grant,  that  by  his  merits  and  intercession  we  may, 
through  thy  grace,  be  enabled  to  keep  thy  com* 
mandments.  Thro*. 

XIX.  St.  JOSEPH,  c, 

1NTROIT,  Justus  ut  pal  ma,  p.  489. 

COLLECT.  Sanclissima.  —  Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  be  assisted  by  the  me- 
rits of  the  spouse  of  thy  most  holy  Virgin-mother, 
and  that  what  we  cannot  obtain  thro*  our  own  weak- 
ness, may  be  granted  us  by  his  prayers*  Who. 
Lesson,  Eccles.  xlv.  p.  491.  Grad.  Ps.  xx.£>.  492,^/2^ 
Tract,  Pi  cxi.jo.  465. 

d?00pel.  Matt.  i.  18.  2 1, —When  Mary,  the 
mother  of  Jesus  was  espoused  to  Joseph,  before 
they  came  together,  she  was  found  with  child  of  the 
Holy  Ghost.  Whereupon  Joseph  her  husband, 


20f/i    MARCH.  565 

being  a  just  man,  and  not  willing  publicly  to  ex- 
pose her,  was  minded  to  put  her  away  privately. 
But  while  he  thought  on  these  things,  behold  the 
angel  of  the  Lord  appeared  to  him  in  his  sleep,  say- 
ing ;  Joseph,  son  of  David,  fear  not  to  take  unto 
thee  Mary  thy  wife,  for  that  which  is  conceived  in 
JUT,  is  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  And  she  shall  bring 
forth  a  son,  and  thou  shalt  call  his  name  Jesus. 
For  he  shall  save  his  people  from  their  sins. 

OFFEHT.  My  truth  and  my  mercy  are  with 
him  ;  ad  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be  exalted. 

SECRET.  We  pav  thee,  O  Lord,  our  bounden 
homage,  humbly  beseeching  thee,  to  preserve  in  us 
thy  gifts,  by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Joseph  the  hus- 
band of  the  Mother  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  thy 
Son,  on  whose  festival  we  offer  thee  this  sacrifice 
of  praise.  Thro'. 

CO  MM.  Joseph,  son  of  David,  fear  not  to  take 
Mary  thy  wife:  for  that  which  is  conceived  in  her  is 
of  the  Holy  Ghost. 

P.  COMM.  Adesto.—KesLT  us,  O  merciful  God,, 
and  vouchsafe,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Joseph, 
thy  Confessor,  to  preserve  in  us,  what  thou  hast  be- 
stowed on  us.  Thro*. 

XX,    St.  CUTHBERT,  bp.  of  Lindtsfarne,  c, 

All  as- in  Mass  XI.  p.  4^4,  except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui.—  O  Godr  who  dost  ren- 
der the  saints  glorious  by  the  inestimable  gifts  of  thy 
grace,  grant,   by   the  prayers  of  blessed  Cuthbert, 
thy  Confessor  and  bp.  that  we  may  worthily  arrive 
the  summit  of  virtue.    Thro'. 
SECRET.     Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lo^d, 
the  sacrifice  of  the  redemption  of  mankind,  and  by 
•avers  of  blessed  Cuthbert,  thy  Confessor  and 
;av  it  procure  for  us  health  of  both  body  and 
.     Thro*. 


$64  25^  MAIICH, 

P.  CO  MM.  Sancta.--Nay  the  holy  mysteries  we 
have  received,  O  Lord,  protect  us  by  their  efficacy, 
and  through  the  intercession  of  B.  Cuthbert,  thy  c. 
and  bp.  theMustre  of  whose  life  shined  so  gloriously, 
preserve  us  in  peace  and  holiness*  Thro'. 

xxv.  Srtmum'attott  of  the  E.  v.  u. 

INTROIT,  Vultum  tuum,  p.  499^ 
£^.  For  the  Collect,  Secret,  and  P.  Comm.  see  the 

II.  Collect,  &c.  on  the  first  Sunday  of  Advent* 

pages  qo  find  52. 

LESSON.    See  II.  Lesson,  Is.  vii.  10$  16.  p.  59. 

GRAD.  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips  :  therefore 
hath  the  Lord  blessr,1  thee  for  ever.  F.  For  thy 
truth,  meekness  and  r.ghteousness,  shall  thy  right 
hand  lead  thee  on  vvoi  lerfully. 

TRACT,  Ps.  xliv.      udi  fitia,  p,  498. 

After  Easter,  instead  f  the  foregoing  GRAD  and 
TRACT,  if  Mid  Alleluia  Alleluia.  V.  Ave  Maria, 
gratia  plena :  Dominus  tt  m  :  benedicta  tu  in  mu* 
lieribus.  Alleluia.  F,  H  '  Mary,  full  of  gface, 
the  Lord  is  with  thee:  bK  ed  art  thou  amongst 
women.  Alleluia.  F.  A  b^  ker  of  Jesse  hath 
budded:  a  Virgin  hath  brought  .  rth  HIM  who  is 
God  and  man :  God  hath  restored  peace,  by  recon- 
ciling in  his  person,  the  highest  things  with  the 
lowest.  Alleluia. 

©00pCU  Luke  i.  26,  38.— 4f  that  time:  The. 
an^el  Gabriel  was  sent  from  God  into  a  city  of 
Galilee,  called  Nazareth,  to  a  virgin  espoused  to1 
a  man  whose  name  was  Joseph^  of  the  house 
of  David;  and  the  virgin's  narfte  was  Mary.  And 
the  angel  being  come  in,  said  unto  her  :  Hail 
Mary,  full  of  grace,  the  Lord  is  with  thee:  blesse4 
art  thou  among  women.  Who  having  heard,  was 
troubled  at  his  saying,  and  thought  with  herself 
what  manner  of  salutation,  should  this  be.  And 


id  APRIL.  $&$ 

the  angel  said  to  her:  Fear  not,  Mary,  for  thoil 
hast  found  grace  with  God.  Behold  thou  shalt  con. 
ceive  in  thy  womb,  and  shalt  bring  forth  a  son, 
and  thou  shalt  call  his  name  Jesus,  lie  shall  be 
great,  and  shall  be  called  the  Son  of  the  Most 
High,  and  the  Lord  God  shall  givevunto  him  the 
throne  of  David  his  father:  and  he  shall  reign  in 
the  house  of  Jacob  for  ever,  and  of  his  kingdom 
there  shall  be  no  end.  And  Mary  said  to  the  angel ; 
How  shall  this  be  done,  because  I  know  not  man  ? 
And  the  angel  answering,  said  to  her:  The  Holy 
Ghost  shall  come  npon  thee,  and  the  power  of 
the  Most  High  shall  overshadow  thee.  And 
therefore  also  the  Holy  which  shall  be  born  of  thee, 
shall  be  called  the  Son  of  God.  And  behold  thy 
cousin  Elizabeth,  she  also  hath  conceived  a  son  ia 
her  old  age;  and  this  is  the  sixth  month  with  her 
that  is  called  barren,  because  no  word  shall  be 
impossible  with  God.  And  Mary  said;  Behold  th& 
handmaid  of  the  Lord,  be  it  done  to  me  according 
to  thy  word, 

OFPERT.  Ittfei—HailMaty,  full  of  grace,  the 
Lord  is  with  thee:  blessed  art  thou  amongst  women, 
and  blessed  is  the  fruit  of  thy  womb. 

COMM.  Isaiah  vii. — Behold  a  virgin  shall  con- 
ceive and  bring  forth  a  son,  and  his  name  shall  b£ 
called  Emmanuel. 


April  II.     St.  FRANCIS  of  'PAULA,  c. 
Alias  in  Mass  XIV.  p.  489,  except 

COLLECT.  Deux,  liwnilium.— O  God,  who  ex- 
altest  the  humble,  and  didst  raise'  blessed  Francis  to 
the  glory  of  thy  saints:  grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
through  his  intercession,  that  by  following  his  ex- 
ample, we  may  happily  obtain  the  rewards  thoa 
hast  promised  to  the  bumWe.  Thro'. 


i'6f>  $d  &:  §th  APRIL. 

EPISTLE,   Phil.  iii.  aj  rm  January  15,  p.  93;, 
SECRET.     May  the   offerings,  O  Lord,  of  thy 
devout  people,  which  vye  lay  upon  thy  altars,  by  the 
merits  of  blessed  Francis,  be  advantageous  to  us  ami 
pleasing  to  thee,     Thro'. 

P.  COMM,  &tfft/?£a.-.*May  the  heavenly  sacra- 
ments, O  Lord,  which  we  have  received,  through 
the  prayers  of  blessed  Francis,  secure  for  us  ail  ne- 
cessary help,  as  well  for  this  life  as  for  that  which 
is  to  come.  Thro'. 

III.  St.  RICHARD,  bp.  of  Chichester,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  X.*  p.  482,  except 

COLLECT.  Dfus,  gui  —  O  God,  who  hast  en- 
lightened  thy  Church  by  the  merits  and  resplendent 
miracles  of  blessed  Richard,  thy  Confessor  and  Bp. 
grant  that  we  thy  servants  may,  through  his  inter« 
cession,  obtain  eternal  glory.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  mercifulGod, 
that  the  gifts  we  have  offered  in  the  sight  of  thy  dU 
vine  Majesty,  may,  by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Rich- 
ard, thy  Confessor  and  Bp.  obtain  for  us  the  grace 
of  living  holily  and  obtaining  eternal  glory.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  H(£c  sat  ro  sancta — May  these  holy 
mysteries,  O  Lord,  of  which  blessed  Richard,  thy 
Confessor  and  Bp.  is  the  dispenser,  coater  on  us 
their  salutary  effects.  Thro' 

V.     St.  VINCENT  FERRERIUS,  c. 

Allasin'MsiS&Xlll.  p  48$,  except 
COLLECT.  Dews.— O  God,  who  wast  pleased 
to  enlighten  thy  Church  by  the  virtues  and  preaching, 
of  B.  Vincent,  thy  Conf.;  grant  that  we  thy  servants 
may  be  instructed  by  his  example,  and,  by  his  pray* 
ers,  delivered  from  all  evil,  Thro'» 


Httt  APRIL.  567 

XI.  St.  LEO,  p.  c.  D. 

All  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  48  5»  except 
LESSON.  Ecclcs.  xxxix.  6,  14.— The  righteous 
roan  will  give  his  heart  to  resort  early  to  the  Lord, 
that  made  him,  and  he  will  pray  in  the  sight  of  the 
"Most  High.  He  will  open  his  mouth  in  prayer, 
and  will 'make  supplication  for  his  sins.  For  if  it 
shall  please  the  great  Lord,  he  will  fill  him  with 
the  spirit  of  understanding:  and  he  will  pour  forth 
the  words  of  his  wisdom  as  showers,  and  in  his 
prayer  he  will  confess  to  the  Lord.  And  he  shall 
direct  his  counsel,  and  his  knowledge,  and  on  his 
secrets  shall  he  meditate.  He  shall  shew  forth  the 
discipline  he  hath  learned,  and  shall  glory  in  the 
law  of  the  covenant  of  the  Lord.  Many  shall  praise 
his  wisdom,  and  it  shall  never  be  forgotten.  The 
memory  of  him  shall  not  depart  away,  and  his 
name  shall  be  in  request  from  generation  to  gene- 
ration. Nations  shall  declare  his  wisdom,  and  the 
Church  shall  shew  forth  his  praise, 

(B00ptl,  Matt.  xvi.  as  on  the  Feast  of  SS. 
Peter  and  Paul,  June  29,  p.  608. 

XIII.  St.  HERMENEG1LD,  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  III.   p.  466,  except 

COLLECT.  !)««.  — O  God,  by  whose  holy 
spirit  B.  Hermenegild,  thy  M.was  taught  to  despise 
an  earthly  for  a  heavenly  crown :  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that,  by  his  example,  we  may  learn  to  despise 
temporal  things,  and  fix  our  hearts  on  those  which 
are  eternal.  Thro'. 

<£>00p0l*     Luke  xiv.  26,  33.  —  At  that  time: 

Jews  scud  to  the  multitude  :    If  any  man  come  to  me, 

and  hate   not  his  father,    and   mother,   and  wife, 

and  children,  and  brethren,   and  sisters,  yea,  and 

3  B  z 


///    APRIL. 

his  own  life  also,  he  cannot  be  my  disciple.  And 
whosoever  doth  not  carry  his  cross  and  come  after 
me,  cannot  be  my  disciple.  For  which  of  you 
having  a  mkid  to  build  a  tower,  doth  not  first  sit 
down  and  reckon  the  charges  that  are  necessary, 
whether  he  have  wherewithal  to  finish  it.  Lest 
after  he  hath  laid  the  foundation,  and  is  not  able  to 
finish  it,  all  that  see  it  begin  to  mock  him,  saying: 
This  man  began  to  build,  and  was  not  able  to  finish. 
Or  what  k;*^g  about  to  go  and  make  war  against 
another  king*  doth  not  first  sit  down  and  think, 
whether  he  b?  able  with  ten  thousand  to  meet  him 
that  with  twenty  thousand  cometh  against  him.  Or 
else  while  the  other  is  yet  afar  off,  he  sendeth  an  em- 
bassy, and  desireth  conditions  of  peace.  So  like* 
wise  every  one  of  yon  that  doth  not  renounce  all 
that  he  possesseth,  cannot  be  my  disciple. 

XIV.  St.  TIBURTJUS,  &c.   mm. 
All  as  in  Mass  VI.  p.  473,  except 

COLLECT.  Prasta.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  solemnize  the  festi- 
val of  thy  holy  Martyrs,  Tiburtius,  Valerian,  and 
Maximus,  may  likewise  imitate  their  virtues.  Thro*» 

Lesson,  Wisd,  and  Gospel,  John,  from  p.  471. 

SECRET.  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the 
sacrifice  which  we  offer  thee  in  honour  of  the  tri- 
umphs of  thy  Martyrs,  may  loose  the  bonds  of  out 
sins,  and  procure  us  the  gifts  of  thy  mercy.  Thro*. 

P,  COMM,  Sacro  muncre. — Being  filled  with  thy 
heavenly  gifts,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  what  we  perform  as  an  homage  due  to  thee, 
may  avail  us  to  salvation.  Thro*. 

XVII.     St.  ANICETE,  p.  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  V.  p.  470,    except 

John  xvi.   20,  32.  —  At  that  time  : 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples  :  Amen,  amen  I  say  to  you, 


22(1  APRIL.  569 

that  you  shall  lament  and  weep,  but  the  world 
shall  rejoice  :  and  you  shall  be  sorrowful,  but  your 
sorrow  shall  be  turned  into  joy.  A  woman,  v/heu 
she  is  in  labour,  hath  sorrow,  because  her  hour  is 
come:  but  when  she  hath  brought  forth  the  child, 
she  remembereth  no  more  the  anguish,  for  joy  that 
a  man  is  brought  into  the  world.  So  also  you  now 
indeed  have  sorrow,  but  I  will  see  you  again,  and 
your  hearts  shall  rejoice :  and  your  joy  no  man  shall 
take  from  you. 

XXII,  SS.  SOTKR  and  CAIUS,  bps.  mm, 
All  as  in  Mass  VI.  p.  473,  except 

LESSON.  Apoc.  xix.  i.  y.  —  In  those  days:  I 
John  heard  as  it  were  the  voice  of  many  multitudes 
in  heaven,  sa>ing«  Alleluia:  salvation,  and  glory, 
and  power  is  to  our  God  :  for  just  and  true  are  his 
judgments,  who  hath  judged  the  great  harlot  which 
corrupted  the  earth  with  her  fornication,  and  hath 
revenged  the  blood  of  his  servants  at  her  hands. 
And  again  they  said;  Alleluia.  And  her  smoke 
ascendeth  for  ever  and  ever.  And  the  tour  and 
twenty  ancients,  and  the  four  living  creatures  fell 
down  and  adored  God  that  sitteth  upon  the  throne, 
saying;  Amen,  Alleluia.  And  a  voice  came  out 
from  the  throne,  saying:  Give  praise  to  our  God, 
all  ye  his  servants:  and  you  that  (ear  him,  little  and 
great.  And  I  heard  as  it  were  the  voice  of  a  great 
multitude,  and  as  the  voice  of  many  waters,  and  as 
the  voice  of  great  thunderings,  saying  :  Alleluia:  for 
the  Lord  our  God  Almighty  hath  reigned.  Let  us 
be  glad  and  rejoice,  and  give  glory  to  him:  for  the 
marriage  of  the  Lamb  is  come,  and  his  wife  hath 
prepared  herself.  And  it  is  granted  to  her  that  she 
should  clothe  herself  with  fine  linen  ^iuu-iing  and 
white.  For  the  Hue  linen  are  the  justifications  of 
the  saints.  And  he  said  to  nir :  Write :  Blessed  are 

383 


57°  23^>  24^  &  25^  APRIL, 

they  that  are  called  to  the  marriage  supper  of  the 

Lamb. 

XXIII.     §.  GEORGE,  m.  Patron  of  England. 
Alias  in  Mass  V.  p.  470,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui  nos  beati.—O  God,  who, 
by  the  merits  and  prayers- of  blessed  George,  thy 
Martyr,  fi'.lest  the  hearts  of  thy  people  with  joy: 
mercifully  grant,  through  his  intercession,  that  the 
blessing  \ve  ask,  we  may  happily  obtain  by  means  of 
thv  grace.  -Thro'. 

EPISLLE,  2  Tim.  as  in  Mass  IV.  p.  468. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
have  made;  and,  through  the  intercession  of  blessed 
George,  thy  Martyr,  by  them  cleanse  us  from  the 
stains  of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Supplices.  -—  We  humbly  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  those  whom  thou  hast 
refreshed  with  thy  sacraments,  may,  by  the  inter, 
cession  of  blessed  George,  thy  Martyr,  by  a  life 
well-pleasing  to  thee,  worthily  serve  thee.  Thro*. 

XXIV.  St.  HDEL1S,  m. 
Alias  in  Mass  V.  p*  470,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.~O  God,  who  didst  fill 
the  heart  of  blessed  Fidelis  with  the  fire  of  seraphic 
Jove;  and  whilst  he  laboured  in  the  propagation  of 
the  true  faith,  didst  honour  him  with  the  crown  of 
martyrdom  and  the  gift  of  miracles:  grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  that  by  his  merits  and  intercession,  we 
may  be  so  confirmed  by  thy  grace,  as  to  be  found 
faithful  in  thy  service  even  unto  death.  Thro'. 

XXV.  St.  MARK,  the  Evangelist. 

A    Dreadful  plague  having  broke  out  at  Rome,  anno 
589,  which  carried  off  a  great  number  of  the  people, 


l$th  APRIL.  57* 


*ins;  and  grant  his  blessing  on  the  fruits  of  the earth. 

1NTR01T,  Protexisti,  ?wftfl*          ,       didst 
COLLECT.     Dez/5,  </w«.  —  °  God»  .whc 
raje  B    Mark,  thy  Evangelis,,  ^  the  honourable 
commission  of  preaching  the  gospel :  grant       e  be- 
seech thee,  that  v.-e  may  ever  receive  benefit  t.om  his 
Instructions,  and  be  defended  by  h»  W«£™& 
IVSSON    E;ek.  i.  10,  14.— The  likeness  or  the 
(o^Screruures  was  this :  there  was  the  face  o 
a  m;>n,  and  the  face  of  a  hon  on  the  right  side 
the  or ,   am!  the  face  of  an  ox  on  the  it-it  side ,  of all 
he  four ,   and  the  face  of  an  eagle,  over  all  the  four, 
Andtl.eir  faces  and  their  w.ngs  were  stretched  up. 
wards  :  two  wings  of  every  one  were  joined,  and  two 

cover^  A™  ^odies'  And  efry-  °ne,  °  ,1^ 
«ert  straight  forward:  whither  the  impulse  ot  the 
rPW  was  to  go,  thither  they  went,  and  they  turned 
J  o  when  they  went.  And  as  for  the  l.Venea ;  01  the 
living  creatures,  their  appearance  was  like  that  of 
banfrng  coals  of  fire,  ami  like. the  appearance  of 
lamps.  This  was  the  vision  running  to  and  fro  in  the 
nmist  of  the  living  creatures,  abnpht  fire  and plight- 
nine  coins  forth  from  the  fire.  And  the  living  ere 
turn  ran  and  returned  like  flashes  of  liRhtninp. 

'uia.    Alleluia.     The  heavens,  O  Lord,  de. 
clave  thy  wonders,  and  the  fulfilling  of  thy  promise 
in  the  assembly  of  the  saints.     Alleluia. 
Luke  x.    i,   9-  —  At 


57*  26/7* 

The  Lord  appointed  other  seventy-two:  and  he  sent 
them  two  and  two  before  his  face  into  every  city  and 
place  whither  he  was  to  come.  And  he  said  to 
them  :  the  harvest  indeed  is  great,  but  the  labour, 
ers  are  few.  Prav  ye  therefore  the  Lord  of  the  liar- 
vest,  that  he  send  labourers  into  his  harvest.  Go  ; 
behold  I  send  you  as  lambs  among  wolves.  Carry 
neither  puise,  nor  scrip,  nor  shoes  j  and  salute  no 
man  by  the  way.  Into  whatsoever  house  you  enter, 
first  say;  Peace  be  to  this  house,  and  if  the  son  of 
peace  be  there,  your  peace  shall  rest  upon  him :  but 
if  not,  it  shall  return  to  you.  And  in  the  same 
house  remain,  eating  and  drinking  such  things  as 
they  have.  For  the  labourer  is  worthy  of  his  hire. 
Remove  not  from  house  to  house.  And  into  what 
city  soever  you  enter,  and  they  receive  you,  eat  such 
things  as  are  set  before  you  ;  and  heal  the  sick  that 
pe  therein,  and  say  to  them:  the  kingdom  of  God 
is  come  nigh  unto  you.  CREDO, 

SECRET.  Bringing  thee  our  offerings,  O  Lord, 
on  this  solemnity  of  B  Mark,  the  Evangelist,  we 
humbly  beseech  thee,  that  as  the  preaching  of  the 
gospel  raised  him  to  glory,  so  his  intercession  may 
make  us,  both  in  word  and  deed,  well  pleasing  to 
thee.  Thro'. 

COMM.    Ps.  Ixiii. — The  just  man,  &c.  p.  472. 

P.  COMM.  Tribuant  nobis.  —  May  thy  sacred 
mysteries,  O  Lord,  afford  us  continual  help,  so  as 
by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Mark,  thy  Evangelist,  they 
may  ever  defend  us  from  all  aJversity.  Thro1. 

(£|r  For  the  Litanies,  see  Rogation  Days,  /;.  359. 

XXVI.   SS.  CLETUStf  MARCELL1NE,  bps.  mm. 

All  as  in  Mass  VI.  p.  473,  except 
COLLECT.    Bcatorum.— Grant,    O   Lord,    that 
the  glorious  confession,  of  thy  B.  mm-  and  bps.  Cle« 


APRIL  &  l$t  MAY.  573 

tiis  and  Marcelline,  may  strengthen  us,  and  their 
pious  intercession  continually  defend  us      Thro*. 
Comm.  of  St.  George,  by  the  Collect,  &c.  p.  57°-_ 

XXIX.  St.  PETER,  m. 

All  tts  in  Mass  V.  p.  470,  except 
COLL.  Presta.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Al- 
mighty God,  that  we  may  with  true  zeal  profess  the 
faith  ofB.  Peter  thy  m.  for  the  propagation  whereof 
he  was  crowned  with  a  glorious  death.     Thro'. 

Com  mem,  c/St.  George,  p-  570. 
SECRET.  Favourably  regard,  O  Lord,  the  pray- 
ers we  offer  thee,  and,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
Peter,  thy  martyr,  continually  protect  the  defenders 
of  the  faith.     Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  JRwfekf^-May  the  sacraments  we 
have  received,  O  Lord,  preserve  thy  faithful,  and 
by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Peter,  thy  Martyr,  de- 
fend us  against  the  assaults  of  the  enemy.  Thro*. 

May  I.  SS.  PHILIP  and  JAMES,  aps. 

INTROIT.  2  Esd.  ix.  -.  They  cried  out  unto 
thee,  O  Lord,  in  their  affliction  :  and  thou  didst 
hear  them  from  heaven.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Ps«  Re- 
joice, ye  righteous,  in  the  Lord :  it  becometh  the 
upright  to  join  in  his  praises.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Ueiis,  guinosannmt**  —  O  God,  who 
comfortest  us  by  the  yearly  solemnity  of  thy  Apos- 
tles Philip  and  James  :  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that 
we  niay  be  instructed  by  their  example,  for  whose 
merits  we  rejoice.  Thro'. 

LESSON,    Wisd.  v.  as  in  p.  471. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  heavens  shall  pub- 
lish thy  wonders,  O  Lord:  and  the  fulfilling  oi  thy 
promises  in  the  assembly  of  thy  saints.  Alleluia. 
V*  Have  1  been  so  long  with  you,  and  you  know  me 


574  IS/    MAY. 

not?  Philip,  .he  that  seeth  me,  seeth  my  Father 
also.     Alleluia. 


John  xlv.  i,  13  _____  At  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to*  his  disciples:  Let  not  your  hearts  be 
troubled.  You  believe  in  God,  believe  also  in  me. 
In  my  Father's  house  there  are  many  mansions.  If 
not,  I  would  have  told  yon,  that  I  go  to  prepare  a 
place  for  you.  And  if'  I  shall  go  and  prepare  a 
place  for  you,  I  will  come  again,  and  will  take  you 
to  myself,  that  where  I  am,  you  also  may  be.  And 
whither  I  go  you  know,  and  the  way  you  know. 
Thomas  saith  to  him:  Lord  we  know  not  whither 
thou  goest  :  and  how  can  we  know  the  way:  Jesus 
saith  to  him  ;  I  am  the  way,  and  the  truth, 
and  the  life.  No  man  cometh  to  the  Father, 
but  by  me.  If  you  had  known  me,  you  would 
without  doubt  have  known  my,  Father  also:  and 
from  henceforth  you  shall  know  him,  and  you  have 
seen  him.  Philip  saith  to  him  :  Lord,  shew  us  the 
Father,  and  it  is  enough  for  us.  Jesus  saith  to  him  : 
So  long  a  time  have  I  been  with  you  ;  and  have  you 
not  known  me?  Philip,  he  that  seeth  me  seeth  the 
Father  also.  How  sayest  thou,  Shew  us  the  Fa« 
ther  ?  Do  you  not  beiieve,  that  I  am  in  the  Father, 
and  the  Father  in  me  ?  The  words  that  I  speak  to 
you,  I  speak  not  of  myself.  But  the  Father  who 
abideth  in  me,  he  doth  the  works.  Believe  you 
not  that  I  am  in  the  Father,  and  the  Father  in  me? 
Otherwise  believe  for  the  very  works  sake.  Amen, 
amen  I  say  to  you,  he  that  believeth  in  me,  the 
works  that  f  do,  he  also  shall  do,  and  greater  than 
these  shall  he  do.  Because  I  go  to  the  Father,  and 
whatsoever  you  shall  ask  the  Father  in  my  name, 
that  will  I  do.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xviii  ----  The  heavens,  O  Lord, 
shall  declare  thy  wonders,  and  the  fulfilling  of  thy 
promises  in  the  assembly  of  the  saints.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia. 


*(l  MAY.  575 

SECRET.  Favourably  receive,  O  Lord,  the  of- 
ferings we  bring  on  the  feast  of  thy  holy  Apostles, 
Philip  and  James;  and  turn  away  all  the  misfortunes 
We  deserve.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  xiv.— Have  I  been  with  you  so 
long,  and  you  have  not  known  me?  Philip,  he  that 
seeth  me,  seeth  my  Father  also.  Alleluia.  Believe 
you  not  that  I  am  in  the  Father,  and  the  Father  in 
me?  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM,   QU&SWHUS,  as  in  p.  477. 

1!.  St.  ATHANASIUS,  bp.  c.  D. 

INTROIT,   In  mcdio,  p.  485,  the  rest  as  in 
Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  iv.  5,  i'$.  ...  Brethren:  We 
preach  not  ourselves,  but  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord  : 
and  ourselves  your  servants  through  Christ.  For  God 
who  commanded  the  light  to  shine  out  of  darkness, 
bath  shined  in  our  hearts,  to  give  the  light  of  the 
knowledge  of  the  glory  of  God  in  the  face  of  Jesus 
Christ.  But  we  have  this  treasure  in  earthen  ves- 
sels, that  the  excellency  may  be  of  the  power  of 
God,  and  not  of  us.  In  ail  things  we  suffer  tribu- 
lation, but  are  not  distressed:  we  are  straitened, 
but  are  not  destitute:  we  suffer  persecution,  but  are 
not  forsaken  :  we  are  cast  down,  but  we  perish  not: 
always  bearing  about  in  our  body  the  mortification 
of  Jesus,  that  the  life  also  of  Jesus  may  be  made 
manifest  in  our  bodies.  For  we  who  live  are  alwa)  s 
delivered  unto  deaih  for  Jesus  sake  :  that  the  life  al- 
so of  Jesus  may  be  made  manifest  in  our  mortal 
flesh.  So  then  death  worketh  in  us,  but  life  ia 
you.  But  having  the  same  spirit  of  faith,  a*  it  is 
written:  I  believed^  for  which  cuute  7  /<- 
we  also  believe,  for  which  cause  we  speak  also  : 
knowing  that  he  \\lio  raised  up  Jesus,  will  raise  us 
up  also  with  Jesus,  and  place  us  with  you. 


57  6  3 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Thou  art  a  priest  for  ever 
according  to  the  order  of  Melchisedech.  Alleluia. 
V*  Blessed  is  the  man  that  sufTereth  temptation:  for 
when  he  hath  been  tried,  he  shall  receive  a  crown 
of  life.  Alleluia. 


*  Matt.  x.  23,  33.  —  At  that  time: 
said  to  /its  disciples  :  When  they  shall  perse- 
cute  you  in  this  city  flee  into  another.  Amen  I  say 
to  you,  you  shall  not  finish  all  the  cities  of  Israel, 
till  the  Son  of  Man  come.  The  disciple  is  not 
above  the  master,  nor  the  servant  above  his  lord. 
It  is  enough  for  the  disciple  that  he  be  as  his  master, 
and  the  servant  as  his  lord.  If  they  have  called  the 
good  man  of  the  house  Beel/ebub,  how  much  more 
them  of  hisjiousehold  ?  Therefore  fear  them  not. 
For  nothing*  is  covered  that  shall  not  be  revealed, 
not  hid  that  shall  not  be  known.  That  which  I 
tell  you  in  the  dark,  speak  ye  in  the  light  :  and  that 
which  you  hear  in  .the  ear,  preach  ye  upon  the 
house  tops.  And  fear  ye  not  them  that  kill  the 
body,  and  are  not  able  to  kill  the  soul  :  but  rather 
tear  him  that  can  destroy  both  soul  and  body  in  hell, 
CR-EDO. 

OFFERTP.  I  have  found  David  my  servant;  with 
my  holy  oil  have  I  anointed  him  :  my  hand  shall 
help  kin),  and  my  arm  shall  strengthen  him.  Allel. 

Ill,  The  FINDING  of  the  HOLY  CROSS. 

1NTRO1P,     Nos  autem,  Gah  vi.  as  in  p.  271. 

COLLECT.  Dtw,  <jni.  —  O  God,  who,  in  the 
miraculous  discovery  of  the  holy  cross,  wast  pleased 
to  renew  the  wonders  of  thy  passion  :  iirant,  that 
by  the  ransom  paid  on  that  saving  wood,  we  may 
find  help  for  the  obtaining  life  eternal.  Who  livest. 
Com  mem.  of  SS.  Alexander,  Eventius,  and  Theo- 
dulns,  Martyrs,  and  Juvenalis,  Confessor* 

COLLECT.  Prastti*  *-  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 


577 

O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  celebrnte  the  festival 
of  thy  saints,  Alexander,  Eventius,  Theoclulus,  and 

Juvenalis,  may,  by  their  intercession,  be  delivered 
rom  all  impending  misfortunes.     Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  PhU.ii.  5,  u  .—  Brethren ;—  Let  this 
mind  be  in  yon,  which  was  also  in  Christ  Jesus;  who 
being  in  the  form  of  God,  thought  it  not  robbery  to 
be  equal  with  God  :  but  emptied  himself,  taking  the 
form  of  a  servant,  being  made  in  the  likeness  of  men, 
and  in  habit  found  as  a  man.  He  humbled  himself, 
becoming  obedient  unto  death,  even  to  the  death 
of  the  cross.  For  which  cause  God  also  hath  exalt- 
ed him,  and  hath  given  him  a  name  which  is  above 
all  names:  that  in  the  name  of  Jesus*  every  knee 
should  bow,  of  these  that  are  in  heaven,  on  earth, 
and  under  the  earth.  And  that  every  tongue  should 
confess  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  in  the  glory  of 
God  the  Father.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Publish  among  the  nations,  that  the  Lord  hath 
triumphed  on  the  Across.  Alleluia.  Sweet  wood, 
sweet  nails,  that  bore  so  sweet  a  weight !  Thou 
alone  wast  worthy  to  bear  the  king  of  heaven  and 
the  Lord.  Alleluia. 

ti£>00p?U  John  iii.  i,  15.  —  At  that  time: 
There  was  a  man  of  the  Pharisees,  named  Nicode- 
mus,  a  ruler  of  the  Jews.  This  man  came  to  Jesus 
by  night,  and  said  to  him ;  Rabbi,  we  know  that, 
thoti  art  come  a  teacher  from  God  :  for  no  man  can 
do  these  signs  which  them  dost,  unless  God  be  with 
him.  Jesus  answered,  and  said  to  him;  Amen, 
amen  I  say  to  thee,  unless  a  man  be  born  ngain,  he 
cannot  see  the  kingdom  of  God.  Nicodermis  saith 
to  him  :  How  can  a  man  be  born  again  when  he  is 
old  ?  can  he  enter  a  second  time  into  his  mother's 
womb,  and  be  born  again  ?  Jesus  answered  :  Amen, 
Uiiiea  1  say  to  thee,  unless  a  man  be  born  again  of 

*  Here  all  kneel  down. 

3  c 


57s  3^  MAY. 

water  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  he  cannot  enter  Into  the 
kingdom  of  God.  That  which  is  born  of  the  flesh, 
is  flesh  :  and  that  which  is  born  of  the  spirit,,  is  spirit. 
Wonder  not  "that  I  said  to  thee,  you  must  be  bom 
again.  The  Spirit  breatheth  where  he  will:  andthou 
nearest  his  voice,  but  thou  knowest  not  whence  he 
cometh,  nor  whither  he  goeth  ;  so  is  every  one  that  is 
born  of  the  Spirit;  Nicodemns  answered,  and  said  to 
him:  How  can  these  things  be  done?  Jesus  an- 
swered, and  said  to  him;  Art  thou  a  master  in 
Israel,  and  knowest  not  these  things  ?  Amen,  ameri 
1  say  to  thee,  that  we  speak  what  we  know,  and  we 
testify  what  we  Have  seen,  and  you  receive  not  our 
testimony.  If  I  have  spoken  to  you  earthly  things, 
and  you  believe  not:  how  will  you  believe  if  i'shaS! 
speak  to  you  heavenly  things  ?  And  no  man  hatii 
ascended  into  heaven,  but  he  that  descended  from 
heaven,  the  Son  of  Man  who  is  in  heaven.  And  as 
Moses  lifted  up  the  serpent  in  the  desart,  so  must  the 
Son  of  Man  be  lifted  up  ;  that  whosoever  believeth, 
in  him,  may  not  perish,  but  may  hate  everlasting 
life.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxvii.  —  The  right  hand  of  the 
Lord  hath  displayed  its  might;  the  right  hand  of  the 
Lord  hath  raised  me  up;  i  shall  not  die,  but  live, 
and  publish  the  works  of  the  Lord.  Alleluia* 

SECRET,  Favourably,  O  Lord,  look  down  on 
the  sacrifice  we  offer  thee,  that  it  may  deliver  us 
from  all  the  miseries  of  war,  and  surely  fix  us  under 
thy  protec'ion,  that  by  the  standard  of  thy  Son's 
holy  cross,  we  may  overcome  all  the  assaults  of  the 
enemy.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  0/-SS.  ALEXANDER,  <5v.— Let  thy 
heavenly  blessing,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  plenti- 
fully descend  upon  these  oblations,  which,  thro' 
thy  b®unty,  sanctify  us  and  fill  us  with  joy  in  the 
solemnity  of  thy  saints.  Thro'. 

PREFACE,   Qui  salutem  huraani  generis,  p.  xxx- 


qth  MAY.  579 

COMM.  By  the  sign  of  the  cross  deliver  us,  O 
Lord  God,  from  all  our  enemies.  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Repleti.  — Being  filled  with  the 
heavenly  meat,  and  strengthened  with  the  spiiilual 
cup,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  to  defend 
from  the  evil  spirit  those,  whom,  by  thy  Son's  cross, 
(the  arms  of  justice,  for  the  redemption  of  the  world; 
thou  hnst  commanded  to  triumph.  Thro1. 

P.  COMM.  0/SS.  ALEXANDER,  ,$c.— Being  re- 
freshed by  the  participation  of  these  sacred  mysteries, 
we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  find  the  ef- 
fects of  what  we  celebrate,  by  the  intercession  of 
thy  blessed  Martyrs,  Alexander,  &c.  Thro', 

IV.  St.  MONICA,  w. 
Alias  in  Mass  XXI.   p.  502,  except 

COLLECT.  Ecus  marentium.  —  O  God,  the 
comforter  of  the  afflicted,  and  help  of  such  as  put 
their  trust  in  thee,  who  with  an  eye  of  mercy  didst 
regard  the  pious  tears  of  holy  Monica,  for  the  con- 
version of  her  son  Augustin:  grant  that,  by  the 
prayers  of  both  these  thy  servants,  we  may  heartily 
bewail  our  sins,  and  find  favour  by  thy  grace.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE,  i  Tim.  v.  3,  10. — Dearly  beloved  sou  : 
Honour  widows,  that  are  widows  indeed.  But  if 
any  widow  have  children  or  grand-children,  let  her 
learn  first  to  govern  her  own  house,  and  to  make  a 
return  of  duty  to  her  parents:  for  this  is  acceptable 
before  God.  But  she  that  is  a  widow  indeed  and 
desolate,  let  her  trust  in  God,  and  continue  in  sup. 

}  plications  and  prayers  night  and  day.  For  she  that 
iveth  in  pleasure,  is  dead  while  she  is  living.  And 
this  give  in  charge,  that  they  may  be  blameless.  But 
if  any  man  have  not  care  ot  his  own,  and  especially 
of  those  of  his  house,  he  hath  denied  the  faith,  and 
is  worse  than  an  infidel.  Let  a  widow  be  chosen  of 
no  less  than  threescore  years  of  age,  who  hath 


5^0  $lh  &  6th  MAY. 

the  wife  of  one  husband,  having  testimony  for  her 
good  works,  if  she  have  brought  up  children,  if  she 
have  received  to  harbour,  if  she  have  washed  the 
saints*  feet,  i£  she  have  ministered  to  them  that  suf- 
fer tribulation,  if  she  hath  diligently  followed  every 
good  work. 

<150#p0l,  Lukevii.  at  in  p.  202. 

V.     St.  CATHARINE  of  SIENNA  v. 
All  as  in  Mass  XIX.  />,  498,  except 

COLLECT.  Da,  qu&sumus* — Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  celebrate  the 
festival  of  blessed  Catharine,  thy  Virgin,  may  rejoice 
in  her  yearly  solemnity,  and  profit  by  the  example 
of  her  eminent  virtues.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  May  the  prayers  we  offer  on  the  festi- 
val of  blessed  Catharine  ascend  to  thee,  O  Lord,  to- 
gether with  the  victim  of  our  salvation,  fraught  with 
heavenly  sweetness.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Mternitatem.— -Grant,  O  Lord,  that 
we  may  have  eternal  life  communicated  to  us  by  the 
nourishment  we  have  received  at  thy  holy  table, 
which  supported  the  temporal  life  of  blessed  Catha- 
rine thy  virgin.  Thro'. 

Vf.     St.  JOHN  at  the  Latin  Gate. 
INTROIT,   Protexisti  me,  as  in  p.  4.70, 

COLLECT.     Deus,  qui O  God,  who  seest  us 

assaulted  with  evils  on  every  side :  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  the  powerful  intercession  of  blessed  John, 
thy  Apostle  and  Evangelist,  may  always  be  a  pro- 
tection to  us.  Thro'. 

After  the  LESSON,  Wisd.  v.  p.  478,  is  said 
Alleluia,  Alleluia,  F.  The  righteous  man  shall 
flourish  like  the  palm-tree:  he  shall  thrive  like  the 
cedar  of  Libauus.  Alleluia.  F.  The  righteous  shall 
bud  forth  like  the  lily,  and  flourish  for  ever  in  the 
light  of  the  Lord.  Alleluia. 


581 

3* 

COMM.  Refe 

472,  473. 


XX.  flj   n  p*  153* 
Rec'ive,  COMM    an.  I  P.  COMM.  Refecti, 


VI  I.     St.  STANISLAUS,  bp.  m. 
ALL  as  in  Mass.  V.  p,  4;o,    except 
COLLECT.     -Dews,  ;>?•<*  —  (  >  God,  for  whose  ho- 
nour the  glorious    Bishop    Stanislaus    fell   by   the 
swords  of  wicked  men  :  grant,  w-e  beseech  thee,  that 
all  who  implore  his  aid,  may  obtain  the  happy  ef. 
feet  ot  their  prayers.     Thro'. 

IX.    St.  GREGORY  NAZJANZKN,  bp.  c.  D. 

Ail  as  in  Mass  XI  i.  />.  4^5,  c.vccpt 
Ll.'*»SO\«  l'^d(.-i*  xxxix.  6,  14.  —  The  just  man 
v.ill  give  his  heart  to  report  early  to  tl^e  Lord  that 
made  him,  and  he  will  pray  in  the  sight  of  the  Most 
liigh.  Lie  will  open  his  mouth  in  prayer,  and  will 
make  supplication  lor  his  sins.  For  if  it  shall  please 
the  great  Lord,  he  will  till  him  with  the  spirit  of 
understanding  ;  and  he  will  pour  forth  the  words  of 
his  wisdom  as  showers,  and  in  his  prayei  he  will 
confess  to  the  Lord.  And  he  shall  direct  his  coun- 
sel,  and  his  knowledge,  and  in  his  secrets  shall  he 
meditate.  Fie  shall  shew  forth  the  discipline  he  hath 
learned,  and  shall  glory  in  the  law  of  the  covenant 
of  the  Lord.  Many  shall  praise  his  wisdom,  and  it 
shall  never  be  forgotten.  The  memory  of  him  shall 
not  depart  away,  and  his  name  shall  be  in  request 
from  generation  to  generation.  Nations  shall  de- 
clare. his  wisdom,  and  his  name  shall  shew  forth  his 
piais  j. 

X.     St.  ANTONINUS,  bp.  c. 

ui  in  Mass  X.  *  j>.  482,  r 

COLLECT.     Siuicti  Atitw.inu&.—  Grant,  O  Lord, 
TU'  n*:-  -"cd  by  the  merit:-  of  holy  Antouinu.-, 


5^2  nth  &  i2tli  MAY. 

thy  Confessor  and  Bishop:  that,  as  we  glorify  thee 
for  thy  wonders  wrought  in  him,  so  we  may  with 
joy  experience  thy  mercy  towards  us.     Thro*. 
O/'S$.  GORDIANUS  and  EPIMACHUS. 

COLLECT.  Da,  qud'sumus, — Grant,  we  beseech 
tnee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  who  celebrate  the 
festival  of  thy  holy  Martyrs,  Gordianus  and  Epima- 
chus,  may,  by  their  prayers,  find  the  effects  of  thy 
divine  assistance.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  the  ofTer- 
ings  consecrated  to  thee,  by  the  merits  of  blessed 
Gordianus  and  Epimachtis,  thy  Martyrs,  and  grant 
thev  may  be  to  lisa  continual  support.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Qutfsumus. — We  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
Gordianus  and  Epimachus,  thy  Martyrs,  the  heaven- 
ly food  we  have  received  may  defend  us  from  all  ad- 
versity. Thro'. 

XI.     St.  PIUS,  Pope,  Conf. 
All  as  in  Mass  X.  *  /;.  482,   except 
COLLECT.    Deus,  qui.—Q  God,  who  wast  pleas^ 
ed  to  raise  blessed  Pius  to  the  dignity  of  chief  Bishop, 
in  order  to  depress  the  enemies  of  thy  church,  and 
restore  the  divine  worship:  make  us  by  thy  grace, 
so  diligent  in  all  that  concerneth  thy  service,  that 
we  may  defeat  the  treacherous  designs  of  our  ene- 
mies, and  rejoice  in  everlasting  peace.     Thro'. 

XII.    S.S.  NEREUS,  &c.  mm. 
1NTROIT.     Ps.  xxxii.— -Behold  the  eyes  of  the 
Lord  are  upon  them  that  fear  him;  who  hope  in  his 
mercy,  Alleluia:  that  he  may   deliver  their  souls 
from  death j  for  he  is  their  helper  and  protector. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.     Ps.  Rejoice  in  the  Lord  ye  righ-. 
ms:  it  becometh  the  upright  to  join  together  in 
:  -raises.     K*  Glory. 


MAY,  5*3 

COLLECT.  Semper.— May  the  blessed  solemnity 
of  thy  Martyrs,  Ncreus,  Achilleus,  Domitilla,  and 
Pancratius,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  afford  us  com- 
fort  and  make  us  worthy  to  serve  thee.  Thro*. 

LESSON,   H  isd.  v.   as  in  p.  471. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  These  were  truly  brothers, 
who,  triumphing  over  the  iniquity  of  the  world,  fol- 
lowed Christ,  and  are  DOW  in  possession  of  the  glo- 
rious kingdom  of  heaven.  Alleluia.  F.  The  white- 
robed  army  of  martyrs  praise  thee,  O  Lord.  Allel. 

d£>00p0l,  John  iv.  as  in  p.  449. 

SECRET.  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the 
confession  of  thy  blessed  Martyrs,  Nereus,  Achilleus, 
Domitilla,  and  Pancratius,  being  acceptable  to  thee, 
they  may  recommend  our  offerings,  and  ever  implore 
thy  mercy  on  our  behalf.  Thro'* 

COMM.  Pst  xxxii. — Rejoice  in  the  Lord,  O  you 
righteous  ones.  Alleluia.  It  becomeih  the  upright 
to  join  in  his  praises.  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Qu<esu?nus,  Dorm  int. — We  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  prayers  of  thy  blessed  Martyrs, 
Ncreus,  Achilleus,  Uomitilla,  and  Pancratius,  that 
the  holy  mysteries  we  have  received  may  render  thee 
more  and  more  favourable  to  us.  Thro'. 

XIV.     St.  BONIFACE,  m. 
All  as  in  Mass  V.  p.  470,  except 
COLLECT.     Da,  quasiwius. — Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  celebrate  the 
festival  of  blessed  Boniface,  thy  m.  may,  by  his  pray- 
ers, find  thti  effects  of  thy  divine  assistance.  Thro'. 

XVI.     St.  UBALDUS,  bp.  c. 

Ail  as  In  Mass  X.  *  p.  482,  except 
COLLECT.     AuxUium.-  Help   us,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  in  thy  mercy:  and  grant,  by  the  inter- 
-\  of  blessed  Ubaldus,  thy  Bishop  and  Confes- 


9^4  tjth,  i&th  &  lyth  MAY. 

sor,  that  we  may  be  defended  by  thy  right  hand 
against  all  the  snares  of  the  devil.     Thro'. 

XVII.    St.  PASCAL  BAYLON. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIII,  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.  — -  O  God,  who  didst 
adorn  blessed  Paschal,  thy  Confessor,  with  an  admi- 
rable love  of  the  sacred  mysteries  of  thy  body  and 
blood:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we  may  be 
made  worthy  partakers  of  the  same  spiritual  nourish- 
rnent  which  he  so  abundantly  received  from  this  di- 
vine banquet.  Thro'. 

XVIII.    St.  VENANTIUS,  m. 
All  as  in  Mass  III.  p.  466,  except 

COLLECT.  Dcusy  qui.—Q  God,  who  hast  con- 
secrated this  day  by  the  triumph  of  blessed  Venan- 
tius,  thy  Martyr,  mercifully  hear  the  prayers  of  thy 
people:  and  grant  that  we,  who  honour  his  virtues, 
may  imitate  the  constancy  of  his  faith.  Thro'. 

d£>00p0l,  John  xv.  i,  7.  as  in p  471, 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  me- 
rits  of  blessed  Venantius  may  render  this  oblation 
acceptable  to  thee:  that  we,  being  assisted  by  his 
prayers,  may  become  partakers  of  his  glory.  Thro*. 

r.  COMM.  Sumpsi/tius.  -—  Having  received,  O 
Lord,  the  sacrament  of  eternal  life,  we  humbly  be- 
seech thee,  that,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Ve. 
nantius,  thy  Martyr,  it  may  procure  for  us  pardon 
and  grace.  Thro'- 

XIX.  St  DUNSTAN,  c.  abp.  of  Canterbury. 

All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,   except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui ,— O  God,  who  hast  trans- 
lated  the  blessed  Dmistan,  thy  high  priest,  to  thy 
uvenly  kingdom  :  grant  that  we,  by  his  glorious 


20th,  USt  &  Z$th  MAY.  585 

merits,  may  pass  from  hence  to  never-ending  joys. 
Thro'. 

SECRET.  Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  thy  suppliant  servants  lay  before  tliee 
on  this  solemnity  of  blessed  Duustan*  thy  Confessor 
and  Bishop,  requesting  that,  under  his  venerable  pa- 
Itronage,  they  may  be  defended  from  the  snares  of  all 
their  enemies.  Thro*. 

P.  CO  MM.  .Beuti.— Assist  us,  O  Lord,  by  the 
prayers  of  blessed  Dunstan,  thy  Confessor  and  Bi- 
shop, in  whose  veneration  we  have  partaken  of  thy 
sacraments.  Thro'. 

XX.     St.  BERNARDINE,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,   except 
COLLECT.     Do/nine  Jcsu. — O  Lord  Jesus,   who 
didst  pour  forth  into  the  heart  of  blessed  Bernardine, 
thy  Confessor,  a  more  than  ordinary  love  of  thy  most 
holy  name:  mercifully  grant  us,  by  his  virtues  and 
prayers,  the  spirit  of  thy  love.     Who  livest. 
(l£>0#pd,   Matt.  xix.  as  in  p.  491. 

XXI.     St.  PETER  CELESTINE,  p.  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.  *  p.  482,  except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui  beat  urn.— O  God,  who 
didst  raise  blessed  Ceiestine  to  the  dignity  of  chief 
Bishop,  which  thou  taugh test. him  to  quit  for  a  more 
humb!^  and  private  state:  mercifully  grant,  that,  by 
his  example,  we  may  despise  the  tilings  of  this  world, 
and  happilv  obtain  the  blessings  promised  to  the 
humble.  Thro'. 

(IBOSfpd,   Matt  MX.  as  in  p.  492. 

XXV.     St.  ALDHELM,  bp.  of  Salisbury,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.  *  /J.  482,  except 
OLLECT.     Deus,  qui  ftodicrnu.-~Q  God,  who 
C 


586  zbth  MAY. 

this  day  didst  raise  blessed  Aklhelm,  thy  holy  Ep.  I 
to  eternal  joys:  grant,  by  his  merits  and  prayers,  I 
that  thy  mercy  may  lead  us  also  thither.  Thro'. 

Of  St.  URBAN.  Da,  qu<esurmu.~-- Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  celebrate 
the  feast  of  blessed  Urban,  thy  M.  and  Bp.  maybe 
aided  by  his  prayers  to  thee  in  our  behalf.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  May  our  offering,  O  Lord,  be  accept- 
able to  thee  by  the  prayers  of  this  saint,  on  whose 
festival  we  make  it.  Thro\ 

Of  St.  URBAN.  May  this  oblation,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  cleanse  us  from  all  sin,  and  sanctify 
both  the  bodies  and  souls  of  thy  servants  for  the  oU 
iering  up  to  thee  this  sacrifice.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Solemnitatem  —Mercifully  help  us, 
O  Lord,  while  we  celebrate  the  feast  of  blessed  Aid. 
helm,  thy  Bishop,  and  grant,  b>  his  merits,  we  may 
be  admitted  to  the  joys  of  heaven.  Thro'. 

O/'St.  URBAN,  Refecti,  />•  463 , 

XXVI.     St.  AUGUSTiN,  ap.  of  England. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.  Deu$>  qui.—Q  God,  who  .didst  ap. 
point  the  blessed  Bishop  Angustin  first  preacher  of 
the  gospel  to  the  English  nation,  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  we  may  be  assisted  by  his  prayers  in  hea- 
ven, whose  merits  we  honour  on  earth.  Thro'. 
COLLECT,  Jnfirmitatem,  o/*St.  ELEUTHERIUS,  with 

its  SECEET  and?.  QoMM.from  Mass  V. p.  472. 

(B00p0l,  Luke  x.  as  on  St.  Mark,  p.  571- 

SECRET.     We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the  1 
offerings  we  have  made  may  be  acceptable  to  thee,  | 
by  which  we  venerate  the  merits  of  blessed  Augustin, 
thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  and  call  to  our  remem- 
brance the  wonderful  means  by  which  we  obtained  < 
our  liberty  and  life.     Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Sancta.—.May  thy  holy  mysteries,  O 
Lord,  which  we  have  celebrated  on  the  solemn  feast 


27^  MAY,    2rf&  3^  JUNE.  58? 

.)U>s<:ed  Augustin,  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  pro. 
t  us:  and  may  we  ever  be  filled  with  and  hunger 
?r  the  same.  Thro'. 

XXVIL    St.  PHILIP  NERIUS,  c. 

in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.     DSHS..--Q  God,    who  hast  raised 
'ssed  Philip,  thy  Conf.  to  the  glory  of  the  saints: 
Toi fully  grant,   that  we  who  celebrate  his  festival 
ih  joy,  may  improve  by  his  example.     Thro'. 
>LLECT,  &c.  of  St.  AUGUST  IN  as  in  the  opposite 
v  those  of  St.  John,  p.  m-from  Mass  ^.^.470. 


Jane  I[.     OCTAVE  of  St.  AUGUSTiN. 

AH  as  OP  f./ie  251)1  May,  p,  586,  with  a  Commeni.  of* 
S3.  MARCELLINUS,  cjc.  mm.asfollozos; 

COLLECT,  Deus,  qui  nos,  as  in  p.  478. 

SECRET.    Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that 
the  sacrifice  we  offer  on  thig  festival  of  thy  holy 
Martyrs,  may  loose  the  bonds  of  our  sins,  and  pro- 
tor  us  the  grant  of  thy  mercy.     Thro'» 

P-  COMM.  Sacra  mu n ere. ---Being  fed  with  these 
sacred  gifts,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  tlrat 
by  this  sacrifice,  which,  according  to  our  bounden 
duty,  we  offer,  we  may  be  sensible  of  an  increase  of 
our  redemption.  Thro'. 

III.     St.  MARY  MAGDALEN  a/PAZZI,  v. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIX,  p.  498,  except 
COLLECT.     Ihus,  virginitatit.-+-+Q  God,  the 
lover  of  purity,  who  didst  inflame  the  breast  of  b'ess- 
|  ed  Mary  Magdalen  with  the  fire  of  thy  love,  and  en- 
:  rich  it  with  he:  fc*»:  giant  we  may  imitate 

i  her  purity  and  charity,  \\bosefestivalwecelebrate- 
i  Thro'. 


$&8  6/£,  8tk  &-gth  JUNE. 

VI.     St.  NORBERT,  bp.  c. 

All  as  i?i  Mass  X.  *  p   482,  except 
COLLEQT.    J)cust  gui.—O  God,  who  diJst  raise* 
up  blessed  Norbert,  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  to  be 
an  eminent  preacher  t>f  thy  word,  and  by  him  wast 
pleased  to  instituie   a  new   order  in   thy   church ; 
grant,  w^e  beseech  thee,  that  by  his  merits  we  may 
'  obtain  the  help  of  thy  grace  to  live  according  to  what 
he  taught  and  practised.    Thro*. 

VIII.     St.  WILLIAM,  abp.  of  York,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XL  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.  Dens,  quL—Q  God,  who  rejoicest 
us  by  the  merits  and  intercession  of  blessed  William, 
thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  mercifully  grant  that  what, 
ever  we  ask.  of  thee  in  his  name  may  be  granted  us 
by  the  favour  of  thy  grace.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
have  niiide,  and  through  the  intercession  of  blessed 
William,  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  cleanse  us  from 
the  stains  of  our  sins.  Thro\ 

P.  COMM.     We  humbly  beseech  thee,  O   Al- 
mighty God*  that  those  whom  thou  refreshest  with  jj 
thy  sacraments  may,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
William,  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop,  by  a  holy  life, 
worthily  serve  thee.     Thro'. 

IX.     SS.  PRIMUS  d«rf  YELICIA>iUSf  mm, 
At!  as  in  Mr.ss  VIII.  p.  477,  except 

COLLECT.  I't/c.— •  Grant,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  ' 
thee,  that  we  may  always  follow  the  example  of  thy  \ 
holy  Martyrs  Primus  and  Feliciauus,  and  by  their ; 
prayers  daily  experience  their  protection.  Thro.' 

GRAD.     Ps.  taonriit.— -The  heavens,  O  Lord, 
shall  confess  thy  wonders;  and  thy  sure  promise  irij 
the  assembly  of  thy  saints.     V.  I  will  sing  thy  mer- 
cies, O  Lord,  for  ever,  throughout  all  generations*  j 


lltk  JUNE.  589 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  These  were  truly  brothers, 
who  triumphed  over  the  iniquity  of*  the  world,  fol- 
lowed Christ,  and  are  now  in  possession  of  the  glo- 
rious kingdom  of  heaven.  Alleluia. 

dSOtfpCi,  Mutt.  xi.  asonthc  151)1  January,  p.  536. 

OFFERT.  Ps  Ixv.  as  in  p.  477. 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  which  we  make  on  this  day  of  the  mar- 
tyrdom of  thy  saints,  appease  thee,  cleanse  us  from 
our  sins,  and  render  the  prayers  and  vows  of  thy  ser- 
vants acceptable.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  v.— I  have  chosen  you  out  of  the 
world,  that  you  may  go  on,  and  bring  for ;h  fruit; 
and  that  your  fruit  may  abide. 

P.  COMM  Quasumus.-.GnxiJt,  O  Almighty  God, 
that  thy  holy  Martyrs  Primus  and  Felicianus,  whose 
feast  we  have  solemnized  with  the  celebration  of 
these  heavenly  mysteries,  may,  through  thy  mercy, 
obtain  for  us  the  pardon  of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

X.     St.  MARGARET,  Queen  of  Scots. 

All  as  in  Mass  XXI.  p.  502,  except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui  beatum.-..Q  God,  who 
didst  render  blessed  Margaret,  Queen  of  the  Scots, 
truly  wonderful  for  her  charities  towards  the  poor: 
grant,  by  her  prayers  and  example,  that  thy  charity 
may  continually  increase  in  our  hearts.  Thro*. 

XL    St.  BARNABAS,  Apostle, 

INTROir,  Mihi  autem,  p.  524. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui. — O  God,  who  comfort- 
est  us  by  the  merits  and  prayers  of  blessed  Barnabas; 
grant,  in  thy  mercy,  that  we,  who  by  him  petition 
for  thy  blessings,  may  obtain  them  by  the  gift  of 
thy  grace.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Acts  xi.  21,  26.  xiii.  t,  3.*— In  those 
days ;  A  great  number  believing  were  converted  to 


59"J  ir^  JUNE. 

the  Lord.  And  the  tidings  came  to  the  ears  of  the 
Chinch  that  was  at  Jerusalem,  touching  these  things: 
and  they  sent*  Barnabas  as  far  as  Aniioch.  Who 
when  he  was  come,  and  had  seen  the  grace  of  God, 
rejoiced  ;  and  he  exhorted  them  all  with  purpose  of 
heart  to  continue  in  the  Lord.  For  he  was  a  good 
man,  and  full  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  of  faith.  And 
a  great  multitude  was  added  to  the  Lord.  And 
Barnabas  went  to  Tarsus,  to  seek  Saul ;  whom 
when  he  had  found,  he  brought  to  Antioch,  and 
they  conversed  there  in  the  Church  a  whole  year : 
and  they  taught  a  great  multitude,  so  that  at  Anti- 
och the  disciples  were  first  named  CHRISTIANS. 
(Chap,  xiii.)  Now  there  were  in  the  Church  which 
was  at  Antioch,  prophets  and  doctors,  among  whom 
was  Barnabas,  and  Simon,  who  was  called  Niger, 
and  Lucius  of  Cyrene,  and  Manahem  who  was  the 
foster-brother  of  Herod  the  Tetrarch,  and  Saul. 
And  as  they  were  ministering  to  the  Lord,  and  fast- 
ing, the  Holy  Ghost  said  to  them  :  Separate  me 
Saul  and  Barnabas,  for  the  work  wliereunto  I  have 
taken  them.  Then  they  fasting  and  praying,  and 
imposing  their  hands  upon  them,  sent  them  away. 

GRAB,  Ps.  xviii. — Their  sound  went  through  the 
whole  world:  and  their  words  to  the  farthest  bounds 
of  the  earth.  V.  The  heavens  publish  the  glory  of 
God  :  and  the  firmament  declareth  the  works  of  his 
-hands.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  I  have  chosen  you 
out  of  the  world,  that  you  may  go  and  bring  forth 
fruit,  and  that  your  fruit  may  abide.  Alleluia. 

(00£rpCi.  Matt.  x.  1 6,>  22.— --4*  that  time; 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples :  Behold  1  send  you  as 
sheep  in  the  midst  of  wolves.  Be  ye  therefore  wise 
as  serpents,  and  simple  as  doves.  But  beware  of 
men.  For  they  will  deliver  you  up  in  councils,  and 
they  will  -sceurge  you  in  their  synagogues.  And  you 
shall  be  brought  before  governors,  and  before  kings 
for  my  sake,  for  a  testimony  to  them  and  to  the 


12th  JUNE.  59t 

Gentiles:  but  when  they  shall  deliver  yon  up,  take 
no  thought  how  or  what  you  speak  :  for  it  shall  be 
given  you  in  that  hour 'what  to  speak,  For  it  is  not 
you  that  speak,  but  the  Spirit  of  your  Father  that 
speaketh  in  you.  The  brother  also  shall  deliver  up 
the  brother  to  death,  and  the  father  the  son;  and 
the  children  shall  rise  up  against  the  parents,  and 
shall  put  them  to  death.  And  you  shall  be  hated  by 
all  men  for  my  name's  sake  ;  but  he  that  shall  per« 
severe  to  the  end,  he  shall  be  saved.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Thou  wilt  appoint  them  rulers  over 
the  whole  earth:  they  shall  be  mindful  of  thy  name, 
O  Lord,  from  generation  to  generation. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
have  made,  and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Bar- 
nabas, the  Apostle,  cleanse  us  from  the  stains  of  our 
sins.  Thro1. 

COMM.  You,  who  have  followed  me,  shall  sit 
on  thrones,  judging  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel. 

P.  COMM.  Suppjices.  —  We  humbly  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  those  whom  thon  re- 
freshest  with  thy  sacraments,  may,  b\  tut  intercession 
of  blessed  Barnabas,  thy  Apostle,  worthily  please 
thee  in  their  conduct  of  life.  Thro' 

Xil.     St.  JOHN  A  FACUNDO,  c. 

All  as  in  Moss  XII 1.  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.  Deusaucior.~~O  God,  the  author 
of  peace  and  lover  of  charity,  who  gavest  to  blessed 
John,  thy  Confessor,  the  extraordinary  grace  of  re- 
conciling  those  who  were  at  variance  :  grant,  by  his 
merits  and  intercession,  that  being  well-grounded  in 
thy  chanty,  we  may  be  by  no  temptations  separated 
from  thee.  Thro' 

COLLECT,  (Sanctorum)  of  SS.  BASIL  IDES,  #c. 

mm. — Grant,  O  Lord,  that  the  festival  of  toy  holy 

Martyrs,  Basilides,   Cyrinus,  Nabor,  and  Nazarius, 

may  be  a  comfort  to  us,  and  that  our  devotion  may 

3  t)  2 


592  J3^  & 

bring  forth  the  fruit  that  has  made  them  blessed  for 

ever.     Thro'. 

SECRET. .  (Of  the  same. )  In  veneration  of  the 
blood  of  thy  holy  Martyrs,  Basilides,  Cyrinus,  Na- 
bor,  and  Nazarius,  \ve  solemnly  bring  these  offering?, 
O  Lord,  to  celebrate  thy  wonders  by  whom  so  great 
a  victory  was  obtained.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  (Semper.)  Of  the  same.— Grant,  O 
Lord,  that  we  who  always  celebrate  the  festival  of 
thy  holy  Martyrs,  i3asilides,  Cyrinus,  Nabor,  and 
Nazarius,  may  ever  be  sensible  of  the  effects  of  their 
intercession.  Thro*. 

XIII.    St,  ANTHONY  of  PADUA,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XI1L  p*  488,  except 

COLLECT.  Eccksiam.— May  this  solemnity,  O 
God,  of  blessed  Anthony,  thy  Confessor,  be  a  com- 
fort to  thy  church :  that  thy  people  may  never  want 
the  assistance  of  thy  grace,  and  at  length  come  to 
the  possession  of  eternal  joys.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE,   i  Cor.  iv.  as  in  p.  490. 

GRADUAL.  The  just  man  shall  flourish  like  the 
palm-tree,  he  shall  thrive  like  the  cedar  of  Libarius, 
in  the  house  of  the  Lord.  V-  to  publish  thy  mer- 
cies in  the  morning,  and  thy  truth  by  night.  Allel,- 
A! lei.  V.  The  Lord  loved  him,  and  adorned  him  : 
he  cloathed  him  with  a  robe  of  glory.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  May  this  oblation,  O  Lord,  avail  to 
the  sa' vatic  .  of  thy  people,  forwhomthou  wast  p'eas- 
cd  to  offer  thyself  a  living  host  to  thy  Father.  Who. 

P.  COMM.  Divinis.--  Being  fil'ed,  O  Lord,  with 
these  heavenly  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  that  by  the 
merits  and  intercession  of  blessed  Anthony,  thy  Con- 
fessor,  we  may  be  sensible  of  the  effects  of  thy  saving 
sacrifice.  Thro*. 

XIV.    St.  BASIL,  c.  D. 

Introit  and  Epistle,  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  489.    Collect* 


\6th  JUNE  593 

Exaudi,  with  its  Secret  and  P.  Comm.  the  Offer- 
tory  also  and  P.  Comm.  us  in  Mass  XL  p.  484. 
GRAD.    The  mouth  of  the  righteous  man  shall 
utter  wisdom,  and  his  tongue  shall  speak  judgment. 
V.  The  law  of  God  is  in  his  heart,  and  his  feet  shall 
not  be  tript  up.  Alleluia,  Alleluia,     K.  I  have  found 
my  servant  David,  and  have  anointed  him  with  my 
holy  oil. 

(l50#p0L  Lukc\\v.  26,35.—^  that  time:  Jesus 
said  to  the  multitude :  If  any  man  come  to  me,  and 
hate  not  his  father,  and  mother,  and  wife,  and  chil- 
dren, and  brethren,  and  sisters,  yea  and  his  own  life 
also,  he  cannot  be  my  disciple.  And  whosoever 
doth  not  carry  his  cross  and  come  after  me  cannot 
be  my  disciple.  For  which  of  you,  having  a  mind 
to  build  a  tower,  doth  not  first  sit  down  and  reckon 
the  charges  that  are  necessary,  whether  he  have  where- 
withal to  finish  it.  Lest  after  he  hath  laid  the  foun- 
dation, and  is  not  able  to  finish  it,  all  that  see  it  be- 
gin to  mock  him,  saying:  This  man  b^gan  to  build, 
and  was  not  able  to  finish.  Or  what  king  about  to 
go  and  make  war  against  another  king,  doth  not  first 
bit  down  and  think  whether  he  be  able  with  ten 
thousand  men  to  meet  him  that  with  twenty  thou- 
sand cometh  against  him.  Or  else  whilst  the  other 
is  yet  alar  off,  sending  an  embassy,  he  desireth  con- 
ditions of  peace.  So  likewise  every  one  of  you  that 
doth  not  renounce  all  that  he  possesst'th,  cannot  be 
my  disciple.  Salt  is  good ;  but  if  the  salt  should 
lose-  its  savour,  wherewith  shall  it  be  seasoned  ?  It  is 
neither  profitable  for  the  land,  nor  for  the  dunghill, 
but  shall  be  cast  out.  lie  that  hath  ears  to  hear,  let 
him  hear.  CREDO. 

xvi.   ss  VITUS,  MODESTUS,  &c.  mm. 

INTROIT.  Ps  xxxiii.  as  on  the  26th  June,  p.  602. 
COLLECT.     Da  ecclcsia-. .-—  Grant,   we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  prayers  of  these  thy  holy  Mar- 
3  t>   3 


594  *6M  JUNE. 

tyrs,  that  thy  church  may  be  free  from  all  pride,  and 
improve  daily  in  humility  :  that  declining  all  that  is 
evil,  she  may  freely  practise  that  which  is  just  and 
good.  Thro'. 

LESSON,  Wisd-  iii.  as  in  p.  475. 
GRAD.  Ps.  cxlix. — The  saints  shall  exult  in  glo- 
ry: they  shall  rejoice  on  their  couches.  V.  Sing  to 
the  Lord  a  new  song:  praise  him  in  the  assembly 
of  the  saints.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Thy  saints,  O 
Lord,  shall  bless  thee:  they  shall  publish  the  glory 
of  thy  kingdom.  Alleluia. 

(S?00pCU  Luke.x  1 6,  20.— At  that  time:  Jesus 
said  to  Im  disciples :  He  that  heareth  you,  heareth 
me:  and  he  that  despiseth  you,  despiseth  me  :  and 
he  that  despiseth  me,  despiseth  him  that  sent  me. 
And  the  seventy-two  returned  with  joy,  saying: 
Lord,  the  devils  also,  are  subject  to  us  in  thy 
name.  And  he  said  to  them  :  I  saw  Satan  as  light- 
ning falling  from  heaven-  Behold,  I  have  given 
you  power  to  tread  upon  serpents,  and  scorpions, 
and  upon  all  the  powers  of  the  enemy :  and  nothing 
shall  hurt  you.  But  yet  rejoice  not  in  this,  that 
spirits  are  subject  to  you:  but  rejoice  in  this,  that 
your  names  are  written  in  heaven. 

OFFERT,  Ps.  Ixv.  God  is  wonderful,  p.  477. 
SECRET.     As  the  offerings   we  have  made,  O 
Lord,  in  honour  of  thy  saints,  testify  the  glory  of  thy 
divine  power-,  so  may  they  procure  us  the  effects  of 
thy  salvation.     Thro'. 

COMM.  The  souls  of  the  righteous  are  in  the 
hand  of  God,  and  the  torments  of  wickedness  shall 
not  touch  them.  In  the  sight  of  the  unwise  they 
.seemed  to  die;  but  they  are  now  in  peace. 

P.  COMM.   jR<v>/ei*.— Being  filled,  O  Lord,  with 
what  hath  been  solemnly  blessed,  we  beseech  thee, 
that,   by  the  intercession  of  thy  blessed  Martyr?,  Vi- 
.   Modest  us,  and  Crescentia,   this  healing  sacra- 


595 

nent  may  be  profitable  to  both  our  souls  and  bo- 
lies.     Thro'. 

XV'III.     SS.  MARK  and  MARCELLlAN,  mm. 

1NTROIT,  Salusautem,  p.  479. 
COLLECT.  Prtcsta,  yuasumus. — Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  ()  Almighty  God,  that  we  who  cele- 
brate the  festival  of  thy  holy  Martyrs,  Mark,  and 
JMarcellian,  may,  by  their  prayers,  be  delivered  from 
all  impending  evils.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Rw.v.  \t$.~Brelhren\  Being  jus- 
tified by  faith,  let  us  have  peace  with  God  through 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ-  By  whom  also  we  have  ac- 
cess through  faith  into  this  grace,  wherein  we  stand, 
and  glory  in  the  hope  of  the  glory  of  the  sons  of 
God.  And  not  only  so  :  but  we  glory  also  in  tribu- 
lations, knowing  that  tribulation  worketh  patience. 
And  patience  trial ;  and  trial  hope.  And  hope  con- 
Foundeth  not:  because  the  charity  of  God  is  poured 
abroad  in  our  hearts,  by  the  Eioly  Ghost  who  is 
"'.vcn  us. 

GRAD.     The  souls  of  the  righteous  are  in  the 

land  of  God,  and  the  torments  of  wickedness  shall 

lot  touch  them.     V.  In  the  sight  of  the  unwise  they 

seemed  to  die;  but  they  are  now  in  peace.     Allel. 

Alleluia.     V  These  were  true  brothers,  who  could 

)t  be  overcome  in  combat:  who  shedding  their 

o.  >•!,  followed  the  Lord.     Alleluia. 

CDO^PCU   Luke  xi.  47,51. — At  that  time  :  Je- 

s  said  to  tiit  Scribes  and  Jr.h&rifc$i   Wo  to  you, 

ho  build  the  monuments  of  the  prophets;  and 

>ur  fathers  killed  them.     Truly  yon  bear  witness 

at  you  consent  to  the  doings  of  your  lathers;  foi 

ey  indeed  killed  them,  and  you  build  their  sepul« 

Therefore  also  the  wisdom  of  God  said  :    [ 

ill  send  to  them  prophets  and  apostles,  and  some 

them  they  will  kill  and  persecute  ;  that  the  blood 

:all  the  prophets  which  was  ^hed  froai  the  ibun. 


Nation  of  the  world,  may  be  required  of  this  genera- 
tion,  from  the  blood  of  Abel  unto  the  blood  of  Za* 
chariasj  who  was  slain  between  the  altar  and  the 
temple.  Yea  I  say  to  you,  it  shall  be  required  ofj 
this  generation. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxiii — Our  soul  like  the  spar^ 
row,  hath  escaped  from  the  hunter's  snare :  the  snarej 
is  broke,  and  we  have  escaped. 

SECRET  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  con- 
secrated  to  thee,  and,  being  appeased  thereby,  mer- 
cifully look  down  upon  us,  by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  Mark  and  Marcellian,  thy  Martyrs.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt.  XXV.— Verily  I  say  to  you  :  what- 
ever  you  have  done  to  one  of  the  least  of  mine,  you 
have  done  to  me:  come,  ye  blessed  of  my  Father, 
possess  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  the  be- 
einning  of  the  world. 

'-•  P.  COMM.  &</^<zns.;-Being  filled,  O  Lord, 
xvith  this  thy  saving  sacrifice,  we  humbly  beseech 
thee,  that,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  Martyrs, 
Mark  and  Marcellian,  we  may  be  renewed  by  the 
effects  thereof.  Thro*. 


XIX.     St.  JULIANA  de  FALCONERIS,  v. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIX.  p  498,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  vouchsaf I 
ed<t  to  refresh  blessed  Juliana,  thy  Virgin,  in  a  mira' 
culous  manner,  wiih  the  precious  body  of  thy  Soil 
in  her  last  sickness ;  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  by  hej 
merits  and  intercession,  that  we  also,  in  our  last  con 
flier,  may  be  so  refreshed  and  strengthened  withth; 
same,  as  to  be  brought  to  our  heavenly  country, 

Commem.  o/'SS.  Gervasius  and  Protasius,  by  the 
COLLECT,  Deus  qui,  with  its  Secret  and  P.  Comir. 
05  in  Mass  IX,  p.  479. 


*oth,  22d  &  13^  JUNE.  597 

XX.  St.  SYLVERIUS,  p.  m. 
All  as  in  Mass  1.  /;.  461,  except 
EPISTLE.  Jude  i  17,  21. -.-Dearly  beloved:  Be 
mindful  of  the  words  which  have  been  spoken  be* 
fore  by  the  aposiles  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ-  Who 
told  you,  that  in  the  last  time  there  should  come 
mockers,  walking  according  to  iheir  own  desires  in 
ungodliness.  These  are  they,  who  separate  them- 
selves; sensual  men,  having  not  the  spirit.  But  you, 
my  beloved,  building  yourselves  upon  your  most 
holy  faith,  praying  in  the  Holy  Ghost.  Keep  your- 
selves  in  the  love  of  God,  waiting  for  the  mercy  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  onto  life  everlasting, 

XXII.     St.  ALBAN,  Prptomartyi  o/England. 
All  as  in  Mass  III    p.  466,  except 

COLLECT.  Dews,  qul  ~  O  God,  who  hast  con- 
secrated  this  day  by  the  martyrdom  of  b'.essed  Al- 
ban:  grant,  that  as  we  annually  rejoice  in  the  cele- 
bration of  h-s  festival,  we  mav  ue  continually  fa- 
voured with  his  assistance.  Thro*. 

(£>Q0p0I,    Matt.  xxvi.  as  in  Mass  II.  j?.  465. 

SECRET  As  we  praise  thee,  O  Lord,  in  venera* 
rating  i  y  blessed  Martyr,  Alban ;  so,  we  beseech 
the*v  r'uough  this  pious  offering  of  atonement,  that 
he  wcuid  always  be  o'ir  intercessor.  Thro*. 

P.   COMM,     Ut  tua. — That  thy  sacraments,  O 
Lord,   may  cleanse  us  from  sin,  arid  preserve  in  us 
the  JVrvour  of  charity,  grant,  we  beseech  thy  divine 
v,  that  we  may  be  always  assisted  by  the  in- 
tercession of  blessed  Alban,  thy  Martyr.     Thro'. 

XXIII.     VIGIL  of  St.  JOHN  BAPTIST. 

INTROIT.     Luke  Y— Fear  not,   O   Zacharias  : 

thy  prayer  is  heard,  and  Elizabeth  thy  wife  shall  bear 

thee  a  son,  and  thou  shall  call  his  name  John:   He 

shall  be  great  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord,  and  be  filled 


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with  the  Holy  Ghost,  even  in  his  mother's  womb : 
and  many  shall  rejoice  at  his  birth.  Ps.  xx.  In  thy 
might,  O  Lord,  shall  the  king  rejoice:  and  he  shall 
exult  exceedingly  at  being  saved  by  thee.  V*  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Prtesta,  ^tfswftus..— Grant,  we  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  thy  people  may 
walk  in  the  way  of  salvation;  and,  by  following  the 
exhortation  of  blessed  John,  the  forerunner,  may 
come  safely  to  him,  whom  he  foretold,  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  thy  Son.  Who  liveth. 

LESSON.  Jcr.  i.  4,  10 hi  those  days-.  The 

word  of  the  Lord  came  to  me,  saying :  Before  I  form- 
ed  thee  in  the  bowels  of  thy  mother,  1  knew  thee: 
and  before  thou  earnest  forth  out  of  the  womb  I 
sanctified  thee,  and  made  thee  a  prophet  unto  the 
nations.  And  I  said:  Ah,  ah,  ah,  Lord  God  :  be. 
hold  I  cannot  speak,  for  I  am  a  child.  And  the 
Lord  said  to  me:  Say  not:  I  am  a  child:  for  thou 
shalt  go  to  all  that  I  shall  send  thee:  and  whatever 
1  shall  command  thee,  thou  shalt  speak.  Be  not 
afraid  at  their  presence:  for  I  am  with  thee  to  deli- 
ver thee,  saith  the  Lord.  And  the  Lord  put  forth 
his  hand,  and  touched  my  mouth;  and  the  Lord 
said  to  me;  Behold  I  have  given  my  words  in  thy 
mouth ;  lo  1  have  set  thee  this  day  over  the  nations, 
and  over  kingdoms,  to  root  up,  and  to  pull  down, 
and  to  Waste,"  and  to  destroy,  and  to  build,  and  to 
plant,  saith  the  Lord  Almighty. 

GRAB.  John  i.  --There  was  a  man  sent  from 
God  whose  name  was  John*  V.  He  came  to  bear 
testimony  of  the  light,  and  to  prepare  for  the  Lord 
a  perfect  people. 

(li500p£L  Luke  i.  5,  17.—- There  was  in  the 
days  of  Herod,  the  king  of  Judea,  a  certain  priest 
named  Zachary,  of  the  course  of  Abia,  and  his  wife 
was  of  the  daughters  of  Aaron,  and  her  name  Eliza- 
beth. And  they  were  both  just  before  God,  walk- 
ing in  all  the  commandments  and  justifications  of 


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e  Lord  without  blame.  And  they  had  no  son, 
for  that  Elizabeth  was  barren,  and  they  both  were 
advanced  in  years.  And  it  came  to  pass,  that  while 
he  executed  the  priestly  office  before  God,  in  the 
order  of  his  course,  according  to  the  custom  of  the 
priestly  office,  it  was  his  lot  to  offer  incense,  going 
into  the  temple  of  the  Lord;  and  all  the  multitude 
of  the  people  was  praying  without  at  the  hour  of 
incense.  And  there  appeared  to  him  an  angel  of 
the  Lord,  standing  on  the  right  side  of  the  altar  of 
incense.  And  Zachary  seeing  him  was  troubled, 
and  fear  fell  upon  him  :  but  the  angel  said  to  him  : 
Fear  not,  Zachary,  for  thy  prayer  is  heard,  and  thy 
wife  Elizabeth  shall  bear  thee  a  son,  and  thou  shalt 
call  his  name  John ;  and  thou  shalt  have  joy  and 
gladness,  and  many  shall  rejoice  at  his  birth.  For 
he  shall  be  great  before  the  Lord :  and  shall  drink 
no  wine  nor  strong  drink,  and  he  shall  be  filled 
with  the  Holy  Ghost  even  from  his  mother's  womb. 
And  he  shall  convert  many  of  the  children  of  Israel 
to  the  Lord  their  God.  And  he  shall  go  before 
him  ia  the  spirit  and  power  of  Elias;  that  he  may 
turn  the  hearts  of  the  fathers  to  the  children,  and 
the  incredulous  to  the  wisdom  of  the  just,  to  pre« 
pare  to  the  Lord  a  perfect  people. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  viii.  -Thou  hast  crowned  him 
with  glory  and  honour,  and  set  him  over  the  works 
or  thy  hands. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we 
have  made  to  thee,  and  by  the  intercession  of  bless* 
ed  John  the  Baptist,  and  the  efficacy  of  these  myste- 
ries,  cleanse  us  from  the  stains  of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Great  is  his  glory  in  being  saved  by  the'1, 
O  Lord  :  thou  wilt  crown  him  with  glory,  and  great 
honour.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Beati  Jtwww/s-— May  the  prevailing 
prayers  of  blessed  John  the  Baptist,  O  Lord,  accom- 
pany ours:  and  may  he  implore  the  mercy  of  our 


6 c-o  24^  JUNE. 

Lord  Jesus  Christ  on  our  behalf,  whose  coming  he 

foretold,  and  who  with  thee  liveth,  &c. 


XXIV.   NATIVITY  o/St.  JOHN  BAPTIST. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xlix.— The  Lord  called  me  by  my 
name  from  my  mother's  womb,  and  made  my  mouth 
like  a  sharp  sword:  under  the  shadow  of  his  hand 
hath  he  protected  me,  and  made  me  as  a  chosen  ar- 
row. Ps.  It  is  good  to  praise  the  Lord,  and  sing  to 
thy  name,  O  thou  the  Most  High.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui  prasentem. — O  God,  who 
hast  honoured  this  day  by  the  birth  of  blessed  John 
the  Baptist:  grant  that  thy  people  may  rejoice  in 
spirit,  and  guide  them  in  the  way  of  eternal  salva- 
tion. Thro', 

LESSON.  LaiakxYix*  i,  7.— -Give  ear,  ye  islands, 
and  hearken  ye  people  from  afar.  The  Lord  haili 
called  me  from  the  womb,  from  the  bowels  of  my 
mother  he  hath  been  mindful  of  my  name.  And  he 
hath  made  my  mouth  like  a  sharp  sword:  in  the 
shadow  of  his  hand  he  hath  protected  me,  and  hath 
made  me  as  a  chosen  arrow:  in  his  quiver  he  hath 
hidden  me.  And  he  said  to  me:  Thou  art  my  ser- 
vant in  Israel,  for  in  thee  will  I  glory.  And  now 
saith  the  Lord  that  formed  me  from  the  womb  to  be 
his  servant:  Behold,  I  have  given  thee  to  be  the 
light  of  the  Gentiles,  that  thou  mayesi  be  my  salva- 
tion even  to  the  farthest  part  of  the  earth.  Kings 
shall  see,  and  princes  shall  rise  up  and  adore  for  the 
Lord's  .,ake,  and  for  the  Holy  One  of  Israel  who 
hath  chosen  thee. 

GR>\D.  Jer.  i.— Before  I  formed  thee  in  the 
womb,  I  knew  thee :  and  before  thou  earnest  forth 
from  the  womb  did  I  sanctify  thee.  V.  The  Lord 
put  forth  his  hand  and  touched  my  moath  ;  and  said 
to  me:  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Thou,  child,  shaltj 
be  called  the  Prophet  of  the  Most  High  :  thou  shalt 
go  before  the  Lord  to  prepare  his  ways.  Alleluia. 


JUNE.  60I 

l-  Luke  i.  57,68.— Elizabeth's  full  time 
of  being  delivered  was  come,  and  she  brought  forth 
a  son.  And  her  neighbours  and  kinsfolk  heard  that 
the  Lord  had  shewed  his  great  mercy  towards  her, 
and  they  congratulated  with  her.  And  it  came  to 
pass  that  on  the  eighth  day  they  came  to  circumcise 
the  child,  and  they  culled  him  by  his  father's  name 
Zachary.  And  his  mother  answering  said :  Not  so, 
but  he  shall  be  called  John.  And  they  said  to  her : 
There  is  none  of  thy  kindred  that  is  called  by  that 
name.  And  they  made  signs  to  his  father,  how  he 
would  have  him  called.  And  demanding  a  writing- 
table,  he  wrote,  saying;  John  is  his  name.  And 
they  all  wondered.  And  immediately  his  mouth 
was  opened  and  his  tongue  loosed,  and  he  spoke 
blessing  God.  And  fear  came  upon  all  their  neigh- 
bours  ;  and  all  these  things  were  noised  abroad  over 
all  the  hill-country  of Judea:  and  all  they  that  had 
heard  them,  laid  them  up  in  their  hearts,  saying : 
What  a  one,  think  ye,  shall  this  child  be?  For  the 
hand  of  the  Lord  was  with  him.  And  Zachary  his 
father  was  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost;  and  he  pro- 
phesied,  saying:  Blessed  be  the  Lord  God  of  Israel; 
because  he  hath  visited  and  wrought  the  redemption 
of  his  people. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xci.— The  righteous  man  shall 
flourish  like  the  palm-tree  :  he  shall  thrive  like  the 
cedar  of  Libanus. 

SECRET.  We  heap  offerings,  O  Lord,  on  thy 
altars,  celebrating  with  due  honour  his  nativity,  who 
both  foretold  the  coming  of  the  Saviour  of  the  world, 
and  shewed  him  when  come,  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord 
thy  Son.  Who  liveth. 

COMM.  Luke  i.— Thou,  child,  shalt  be  called 
the  Prophet  of  the  Most  High ;  for  thou  shalt  go  be- 
fore the  face  of  the  Lord  to  prepare  his  ways. 

P.  COMM.  tiumut.— Let  thy  Church,  O  God, 
rejoice  on  the  nativity  of  blessed  John  the  Baptist, 


6o2  25^  &  z6th  JUNE. 

by  whom  she  came  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Author 
of  her  regeneration,  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  thy  Son, 
Wholiveth.  - 

XXV.     St.  WILLIAM,  of  York,  ab.c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XV,*  /;.  49 1,  except 
COLLECT.     Deus,  qm.  —  O  God,    who  in  thy 

saints  hast  afforded  both  an  example  and  help  to  our 
weakness,  in  order  to  enable  us  to  walk  in  the  road 
of  salvation:  grant  us  so  to  revere  the  merits  of  the 
blessed  Abbot  William,  that  we  may  feel  the  benefit 
of  his  suffrages,  and  tread  in  his  steps.  Thro\ 

XXVI.     SS.  JOHN  and  PAUL,  mm. 

INTROIT.  Ps.  xxxiii.— Many  are  the  tribula- 
tions of  the  righteous,  but  the  Lord  hath  delivered 
them  from  all.  The  Lord  keepeth  all  their  bones, 
and  not  one  of  them  shall  be  broken.  Ps.  I  wiii 
bless  the  Lord  at  all  times:  his  praise  shall  be  for 
ever  in  my  mouth.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  QiuEsumus. — We  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  we  may  receive  this  day  redou- 
bled joy  from  the  glorious  solemnity  of  the  blessed 
Martyrs,  John  and  Paul,  who,  in  their  faith  and  suf- 
ferings, were  truly  brothers.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Eccles.  xliv.  10,  15. — These  were  mea 
of  mercy,  whose  godly  deeds  have  not  failed  :  good 
things  continue  with  their  seed,  their  posterity  are  a 
holy  inheritance,  and  their  seed  hath  stood  in  the 
covenants :  and  their  children  for  their  sakes  remain 
for  ever;  their  seed  and  theirg  glory  shall  not  be  for- 
saken. Their  bodies  are  bur'ud  in  peace,  and  their 
names  live  unto  generation  and  generation.  Let 
the  people  shew  forth  their  wisdom,  and  the  Church 
declare  their  praise. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxxii. — Behold  how  good  and  de^ 
lightful  it  is  for  brethren  to  dwell  in  peace.  V.  It  is 


JUNE.  603 

Tike  the  perfumed  oil  which  from  the  head  came 
down  all  over  the  beard  of  Aaron.  Alleluia,  Alle- 
luia. V.  These  wm-  truly  brothers,  who  triumphed 
over  the  iniquity  of  the  world,  followed  Christ,  and 
are  now  in  possession  of  the  glorious  kingdom  of 
heaven.  Alleluia. 

C?0£fp£l  +  Luke\\\.  i,  8--  -At  that  lime:  Jesus 
mild  1o  /us  discij>(es:  Beware  ye  of  the  leaven  of  the 
Pharisees,  which  is  hypocrisy.  For  there  is  nothing 
covered,  that  shall  not  be  revealed:  nor  hidden,  that 
shall  not  be  known.  For  whatsoever  things  you 
have  spoken  in  darkness,  shall  be  published  in  the 
light:  and  that  v\  hich  you  have  spoken  in  the  ear  in 
the  chair bers,  shall  be  preached  on  the  house-tops. 
And  1  say  to  yoi:,  my  friends;  Be  not  afraid  of  them 
who  kill  the  body,  and  after  that  have  no  more  they 
can  do.  But  I  will  shew  you  whom  you  shall  fear; 
lea:  ye  him  \\ho  after  he  hath  killed,  hath  power  to 
cast  into  hell.  Yea  1  say  to  yon,  fear  him.  Are 
not  five  sparrows  sold  for  two  farthings,  and  not 
one  of  them  is  forgotten  before  God  ?  Yea  the  very 
hairs  of  your  head  are  all  numbered.  Fear  not 
therefore:  you  are  of  more  value  than  many  spar- 
rows. And  1  say  to  you,  whosoever  shall  confess 
me  before  men,  him  shall  the  Son  of  Man  also  con- 
fess before  the  angels  ot  God. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  v.-.-All  that  love  thy  name  shall 
glory  in  thee,  because  thou,  O  Lord,  wilt  bless  the 
righteous  man :  thou  hast  covered  us,  O  Lord,  as 
with  the  shield  o(  thy  love. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  the  offer- 
ings  consecrated  to  thee  by  the  merits  of  thy  holy 
Martyrs,  John  and  Paul:  and  grant  they  may  be  to 
us  a  continual  support.  Thro\ 

COMM.  H'<W.  iii  —Though  they  suffered  tor- 
merits  in  the  Sight  of  men,  God  only  tried  them : 
like  gold  in  the  furnace  ho  proved  them,  and  as  an 
holocaust  he  accepted  them. 


604  27^/4  &  28^/4  JUNE. 

P.  COMM.  SnmpsonH*. — Having  received,  O 
Lord,  thy  divine  sacraments  on  the  festival  of  thy 
holy  Martyrs,  John  and  Paul :  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  what  we  here  celebrate  in  time,  we  may 
hereafter  receive  in  a  happy  eternity.  Thro*. 

XXVII.    St.  LEO,  p.  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  didst 
render  blessed  Leo  worthy  of  the  rewards  of  thy 
saints:  mercifully  grant  that  we,  who  keep  his  festi- 
val, may  likewise  follow  the  example  of  his  holy 
life.  Thro'. 
Here  and  at  the  Secret  and  P,  Comm.  is  made  a 

Commem.  of  St.   John  Baptist ;  and  also  of  the 

Vigil  o/SS.  Peter  and  Paul  as  below. 

C£>00pd,   Matt.  xxv.  as  in  p.  482. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  by 
the  hitrrcession  of  blessed  Leo,  that  this  oblatioa 
may  be  available  to  us,  by  the  offering  of  which 
thou  wast  pleased  to  blot  out  the  sins  of  the  whole 
world.  Thro'. 

P»  COMM.  Deus,  qui  anima.~.Q  God,  who  hast 
bestowed  on  the  soul  of  thy  servant  Leo  the  rewards 
of  eternal  happiness:  mercifully  grant,  that  we,  who 
are  burdened  with  the  weight  of  our  sins,  may,  by 
his  intercession,  find  relief,  Thro'. 

XXVI It.     VIGIL  o/SS.  PETER  and  PAUL. 

INTROIT.  John  xxi— The  Lord  said  to  Peter : 
when  thou  wast  younger,  thou  girdedst  thyself,  and 
walkedst  where  thou  wouldst;  but  when  thou  shalt 
grow  old,  thou  shalt  stretch  forth  thy  hands,  and  ano- 
ther shall  gird  thee,  and  shall  lead  thee  where  thou 
wouldst  not :  now  he  said  this,  hinting  by  what 
death  he  was  to  glorify  God.  Ps.  The  heavens  pub- 
lish the  glory  of  God  :  and  the  firmament  declareth 
the  works  of  his  hands.  V.  Glory. 


JUNE.  605 

COLLECT.  Prasta. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we,  whom  thou  hast  founded 
tm  the  rook  of  the  apostolic  faith,  may  be  never 
shaken  by  any  troubles.  Thro\ 

LESSON.  Actsm.  T,  10. —  lulfiost  days:  Peter 
and  John  wont  up  to  the  temple,  being  the  ninth 
hour.  And  a  certain  man  who  was  lame  from  his 
mother's  womb,  was  carried  ;  whom  they  laid  every 
vlay  at  the  gate  of  the  temple,  which  is  called  Beau- 
tiful, that  he  might  ask  alms  of  them  that  went  into 
the  temple.  He,  wh^n  he  had  seen  Peter  and 
John  about  to  go  into  the  temple,  asked  to  receive 
an  alms.  But  Peter  with  John  fastening  his  eyes 
upon  him,  said  :  Look  upon  us.  But  he  looked 
earnestly  upon  them,  hoping  that  he  should  receive 
something  of  them.  Then  Peter  said:  Silver  and 
£old  1  have  none  :  but  what  I  have  I  give  thee: 
In  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Nazareth,  rise  up 
and  walk.  And  taking  him  by  the  right  hand,  he 
lifted  Kim  up,  and  forthwith  his  feet  and  soles  re- 
ceived  strength.  And  he  leaping  up  stood,  and 
walked  ;  and  went  in  with  them  into  the  temple, 
walking,  and  leaping,  and  praising  God.  And  ail 
the  people  saw  him  walking  and  praising  God.  And 
they  knew  him,  that  it  was  he  who  sat  begging  alms 
at  the  Beautiful  gate  of  the  temple :  and  they  were 
filled  with  wonder  and  amazement  iit  that  which 
had  happened  to  him. 

GRADUAL,  Ps.  xviii.  to  Alleluia,  as  en  the  nth 
June,  p.  590. 

(T00pCU     John   xxi.    15,    19. At  that  time; 

Jesus  said  to  Simon  Peter :  Simon  .swz  of  John, 
Jovest  thou  me  more  than  these  ?  He  saith  to  him  : 
Yeu  Lord:  thou  knowest  that  I  love  thee.  He 
faith  to  him:  Feed  my  lambs.  He  saith  to  him 
again:  S'ur.on  son  of  John,  lovest  thou  me  ?  He  saith 
to  him:  Yea,  Lord,  thou  knowest  that  I  love  thee. 
lie  saiih  to  him  :  Feed  my  lambs.  He  saith  to  him 
gE| 


606  zgth   JUN2. 

the  third  time:  Simon  son  of  John,  lovest  thon  me  ? 
Peter  was  grieved,  because  he  said  to  him  the  third 
time:  Lovest%ihou  me?  And  he  said  to  him  :  Lord, 
thou  kno  vest  all  things;  thou  knowest  that  I  love 
thee-  He  said  to  him  :  Feed  my  sheep.  Amen, 
amen  I  say  to  thee,  when  thou  wast  younger,  thou 
didst  gird  thyself,  mvi  didst  walk  where  thou  wouidst: 
but  when  thou  shalt  be  old,  thou  shah  stretch  forth 
thy  hands,  and  another  shall  gird  thee,  and  lead  thee 
whither  thou  wouidst  not.  This  he  said,  signifying 
by  what  death  he  should  glorify  God. 

OFFERTORY.  Ps.  cxxxviii.  —  To  me,  O  God, 
are  thy  friends  exceeding  honourable:  exceeding 
mighty  is  their  power. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee, 
the  offerings  of  thy  people  by  the  intercession  of  thy 
Aposties,  and  cleanse  us  from  the  stains  of  our  sins. 
Thro'. 

COMM.  John  xxi. — Simon,  son  of  John,  lovest 
thou  me  more  than  these  ?  Lord,  thou  knowest  all 
things :  thou  knowest,  O  Lord,  that  I  love  thee. 

P.  COMM.  Quoa  aclesti,   as  tomorrow,  p    608. 

xxix. 

INTROIT.     Act*\\i.  n. 

NOW   I   know    cer-  1^'UNC  scio  vere  quia 

tainly,    that    the  JL/M     misit  Dominns  ^n- 

Lord  hath  rent  his  angel  gelum   suum,    et   enpuit 

and  delivered   me  out  of  me  de  manu  Ilerodis,  et 

the  hand  of  Herod,   and  de     omni      expectatione 

from  all  the  expectation  plebis  Judscorum. 

of  the  Jewish  people.  Ps.  cxxxviii,    Dominef 

Pa.  O  Lord,  thou  hast  probasti  me,    et  cojjno- 

tried  me,  and  hast  known  visa   me:     tu    cognovistt 

me:    thou   hast    known  sessionem   meum,  et  re- 

my  sitting  down,  and  my  surrectionem  nieam. 

.     :\;  up.     /-'.  Glory.  K.  Gloria* 


*gth  JUNE.  607 

COLLECT,  Dens,  qui,—O  God,  who  hast  con* 
secrated  'his  day  by  the  martyrdom  of  thy  glorious 
Apostles  Peter  and  Paul;  gnnt,  that  thy  Church 
may  in  all  things  follow  their  directions,  by  whom 
was  1->M  the  foundation  of  her  religion  Thro'. 

I  S7ON.  Actstu.i,  l*?+-1tifhatA-'daip:  Herod 
rg  -i  retched  forth  his  hand  to  aiilict  some  of 
the  Church,  And  he  killed  James  the  brother  of 
John  with  the  svord.  And  seeing  that  it  pleased 
the  Jew>,  he  proceeded  to  take  up  Peter  also.  Now 
it  wns  in  the  days  of  the  azymt  s.  And  when  he  had 
apprehended  him,  he  cast  him  into  prison,  delivering 
him  to  four  files  of  soldiers  to  be  kept,  intending 
after  the  pasch  to  bring  him  forth  to  the  people. 
Peter  therefore  was  kept  in  prison  But  prayer  was 
made  without  ceasing  by  the  Church  unto  God  for 
him.  And  when  Herod  would  havf-  brought  him 
forth,  the  same  night  Peter  was  sleeping  between 
two  soldiers,  bound  with  two  chains:  and  the 
keepers  before  the  door  kept  the  prison.  And  be- 
hold an  angel  of  the  Lord  stood  by  him:  and  a 
light  shirsed  in  the  room  :  and  he  striking  Peter  on 
the  side  raised  him  up,  saying:  Arise  quickly.  And 
the  chains  fell  off  from  his  hands-  And  the  angel 
said  to  him:  Gird  thyself,  and  put  on  thy  sandals. 
And  he  did  so.  And  he  said  to  him;  Cast  thy  gar- 
ment about  thee,  and  follow  me.  And  going  out 
he.  followed  him,  and  he  knew  not  that  it  was  true 
which  was  done  by  the  angel;  but  thought  he  saw 
a  vision  And  passing  through  the  first  and  second 
•ward,  they  came  to  the  iron  gate  that  leadeth  to  the 
city,  which  of  itself  opened  to  them.  And  going 
put,  they  passed  on  through  one  street:  and  im- 
mediately the  angel  departed  from  him.  And  Peter 
coming  to  himself,  said:  Now  I  know  in  very  deed 
that  the  Lord  hath  sent  his  angel,  and  hath  delivered 
me  out  of  the  hand  of  Herod^  and  from  all  the  ex- 
pectation of  the  people  of  the  Jews. 


6o8  29^  JUNE. 

GRAD.  To  me,  &c.  as  at  the  Offertory, p.  606. 

V.  Tu  es  Petrus,  ct  super  hanc  pelram  adijicabo 
Ecclesiawmeam.  Alleluia.  V.  Thou  art  Peter :  and 
upon  this  rock.  I  will  build  my  Church.  Alleluia. 

(EOSptU  Matt.  xvi.  13,  19.— At  that  time'* 
Jesus  came  into  the  quarters  of  Cesarea  Phiilipi: 
and  he  asked  his  disciples,  saying :  Whom  da  men 
say  that  the  Son  of  Man  is  ?  But  they  said:  Some, 
John  the  Baptist,  am)  other  some,  Elias,  and  others 
Jeremias,  or  one  of  the  prophets.  Jesus  saith  to 
them:  But  whom  do  you  say  that  1  am  ?  Simoa 
Peter  answered  and  said:  Thou  art  Christ  the  Sou 
of  the  living  God  And  Jesus  answering,  said  to 
him  :  Blessed  art  thou  Simon  bar-Jona;  because 
flesh  and  blood  hath  not  revealed  it  to  thee ,  but  my 
Father  who  is  in  heaven.  And  I  say  to  thee  :  That 
thou  art  Peter,  and  upon  this  rock  I  will  build  my 
Church,  and  the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail 
against  it.  And  I  will  give  10  thee  the  keys  of  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.  And  whatsoever  thou  shalt 
bind  'jpon  earth,  it  shall  be  bound  also  in  heaven: 
and  whatsoever  thou  shalt  loose  on  earth,  it  shall  be 
loosed  also  in  heaven.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Thou  wilt  appoint  them  rulers  over 
the  whole  earth  :  they  shall  be  mindful  of  thy  name, 
O  Lord,  from  gent  ration  to  generation. 

SECRET.  May  the  prayers  of  the  Apostles,  O 
Lori,  accompany  the  offerings  consecrated  to  thy 
name  ;  an<*  grant  that  we  may  be  both  cleansed  and 
defended  thereby.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Mutt,  xvi.  — Thou  art  Peter,  and  upon 
this  rock  Iwili  build  my  Church. 

P.  COMM.  Quos  calesti.—  Defend,  O  Lord,  from 
all  adversity,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  Apostles, 
those  whom  thou  hast  nourished  with  heavenly 
food.  Thro*. 


JUNE.  609 

XXX.  COMMEMORATION  of  St.  PACT,. 

Ail  as  on  Jan.  2$,    p.  543,  with  a  Oommem.  of  St. 
J.  Baptist,  p.  600,  except 

EPISTLE,  Gal.  i.  n,  20.  —  Brethren:  1  give 
you  to  understand,  that  the  gospel  which  was 
preached  by  me,  is  not  according  to  man.  For 
neither  did  I  receive  it  of  man,  nor  did  I  learn  it ; 
but  by  the  revelation  of  Jesus  Christ.  For  yon  have 
heard  of  my  conversion  in  time  past  in  the  Jews 
religion:  how. that  beyond  measure  1  persecuted 
the  Church  of  God,  and  wasted  it,  and  I  made 
progress  in  the  Jews  religion  above  many  of  my 
equals  in  my  own  nation,  being  more  abundantly 
zealous  for  the  traditions  of  my  fathers.  But  when  it 
pleased  him,  who  separated  me  from  my  mother's 
womb,  and  called  me  by  his  grace,  to  reveal  his 
Son  in  me,  that  I  might  preach  him  among  the 
Gentiles,  immediately  I  condescended  not  to  flesh 
and  blood.  Neither  went  I  to  Jerusalem  to  the 
apostles  who  were  before  me:  but  I  went  into 
Arabia,  and  again  I  returned  to  Damascus.  Then, 
after  three  years,  I  w;ent  to  Jerusalem  to  see  Peter, 
and  I  tarried  with  him  fifteen  days:  but  other  of 
the  apostles  I  saw  none:  saving  James  the  brother 
of  the  Lord.  Now  the  things  which  I  write  to  you; 
behold  before  God  I  lie  not« 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  O  holy  Apostle  Paul, 
preacher  of  the  truth,  and  doctor  of  the  Gentiles, 
intercede  for  us.  Alleluia. 

(£>0£p0l,   Matt.  x.  as  on  the  nth  of  June,  p.$  90. 

OFFERTORY.  Ps.  cxxxviii.— -To  me,' O  God,  thy 
friends  are  exceeding  honourable  :  exceeding  mighty 
is  their  power. 

COMM.  Matt,  xix.— Amen,  I  say  to  you  :  that 
you  who  have  forsaken  all  things,  and  followed 
me,  shall  receive  an  hundred  fold,  and  obtain  eter- 
nal life. 


6lO  2C?    JULY. 

P.  COMM.  Perceptis.— Having  received,  O  Lord, 
these  holy  mysteries,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  by 
the  intercession  of  thy  B.  Apostle  "Paul,  tliat  what  we 
have  celebrated  in  thanksgiving  for  the  glory  be* 
stowed  upon  him,  may  be  a  remedy  to  us.  Thro'. 

July  II.    VISITATION  of  the  B.  V.  M. 

Introit,  Grad.  OfFert.  Comm.  and  P.  Comm.  as  in 
the  Votive  Mass,  Salve,./;  507.  The  Collect,  $c. 
as  on  December  8,  p.  529.  wit>.  Commems.of  SS. 
Peter  and  Paul,  as  on  June  29,  p.  607. 

Com  mem  o/~SS.  Processus  and  Martinian,  mm. 

COLLECT.  Dcus,  quL—O  God,  who  by  the 
glorious  sufferings  of  r.hv  holy  Martyrs  Piocessusand 
Martinian,  art  pleased  to  protect 'and  defend  us: 
grant,  we  may  improve  by  their  example,  and  find 
comfort  in  their  prayers.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Cant.  ii.  8,  14.— Behold  he  cometh, 
leaping  upon  the  mountains,  skipping  over  the  hills. 
My  beloved  is  like  a  roe  or  a  young  hart.  Behold 
he  standeth  behind  «>ur  wall,  looking  through  the 
windows,  looking  through  the  lattices.  Behold  my 
beloved  speaketh  to  me:  Arise,  make  Iv.ste,  my 
love,  my  dove,  my  beautiful  one,  and  come.  For 
winter  is  now  past,  the  rain  is  now  over  and  gone. 
The  flowers  have  appeared  in  our  land,  the  time  of 
pruning  isromt-,  ihe  voice  of  the  turtle  is  heard  in. 
our  land:  the  fig- tree  hath  put  forth  -  ureen  figs, 
the  vine  in  flower  yield  their  sweet  s.nell  -.  se, 
my  love,  rny  beautiful  one,  and  come.  Mv  jove 
in  the  clefts  of  the  rock,  in  the  hol-ov/  places  -^"  the 
wall,  shew  me  thy  face,  let  thy  voice  sound  in  my 
ear :  for  thy  voice  is  sweet,  and  thy  face  come  • 
(£00p0l,  Luke  i.  as  in  page  62.  CREDO. 

SECRET,  (//SS.  Processus,  fa)  Receive,  O  Lord, 
our  prayers  and  offerings;  and  that  they  maybe 


id   JULY.  6fl 

found  worthy  rm  thy   sight,  let  us  be  assisted   by 
the  pravers  of  thy  saints*     Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Hefecti.  —  Being  nourished  by  the 
participation  of  the  holy  body  and  precious  blood 
of  this  sacrifice  :  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord  our  God, 
that  what  \ve  perform  with  pior.s  devotions,  may 
be  a  certain  means  of  obtaining  our  salvation.  Thro*. 

Within  the  OCTAVE  r/SS.  PETER  awrfPAUL. 

JNTUOIT,  Mihi  autem,  p.  524.     Collect,  &c. 
as  on  June  29,  p.  607. 

LESSON.  Actsv.  12,  16.— In  those  days :  By  the 
hands  of  the  apostles  were  many  signs  and  wonders 
wrought  among  the  people.  And  they  were  all 
with  one  accord  in  Solomon's  porch.  But  of  the 
rest  no  man  durst  join  himself  to  them;  but  the 
people  magnified  them.  And  the  multitude  of  men 
and  women  that  believed  in  the  Lord  was  more  in- 
creased:  insomuch,  that  they  brought  forth  the  sick 
into  the  streets,  and  laid  them  on  beds  and  couches, 
that  when  Peter  came,  his  shadow  at  least  might 
overshadow  any  of  them,  and  they  might  be  de- 
livered from  their  infirmities.  And  there  came  also 
togtrJier  to  Jerusalem  u  multitude  from  the  neigh- 
bouring cities,  banging  sick  persons,  and  such  as 
were  troubled  with  unclean  spirits  j  who  were  all 
healed. 

GRAD.     Ps.  xliv,— Thou    wilt  set  them  rulers 
over  all   the  «arth:    and  they  shall  remember  thy 
name,  O  Lord-     V.  In  place  of  thy  fathers  thou  hast 
children  born   to  thee:  therefore  shall  the  nations 
praise  thee.    Alleluia,  Alleluia.     F.    I   have  prayed 
for  thee,  p  :  r,  that  thy  faith   fail  not :  and  when 
thou  art  converted,  strengthen  thy  brethren.  Allel, 
(BOtfpd,     Matt.  x;X.  an  z/i  p.  492. 
COMM.     You   who  have  followed  me  shall  sit 
upon  thrones,  judging  the  tv/elve  tribes  of  Israel. 


(sl2  6th   JULY. 

VI.  OCTAVE  o/'SS.  PETER  and  PAUL. 

INTROiT,  Sapientiam,  as  in  p.  477. 

COLLECT.  Dens,  cttjus.—O  God,  whose  right 
band  saved  blessed  Peter  from  being  drowned  whilst 
he  walked  upon  the  sea,  and  delivered  his  fellow 
Apostle  Paul  from  the  bottom  thereof,  when  he 
had  been  a  third  time  shipwrecked  ;  mercifully  hear 
us,  and  grant,  that  by  the  merits  of  both,  we  may 
obtain  a  happy  eternity.  Thro'. 

LESSON,  'Eccles.  xliv-  as  inp*  602. 

GRAD.  The  souls  of  the  righteous  are  in  the 
hands  of  God,  and  the  torments  of  the  wicked  shall 
not  touch  them.  F.  They  seemed  in  the  eyes  of 
fools  to  die,  but  they  are  in  peace.*  Alleluia,"  Alle- 
luia. You  have  continued  with  me  in  all  my  suf- 
ferings, and  I  prepare  a  kingdom  for  you  :  that  you 
may  sit  on  thrones,  judging  the  twelve  tribes  of 
Israel.  Alleluia. 

(BOgfpCl*  Matt.\\v.  22.  3>—  At  that  time: 
Jesus  obliged  his  disciples  to  go  up  into  the  boat, 
and  to  go  before  him  over  the  water,  till  he  dis- 
missed the  people.  And  having  dismissed  the  muU 
titude,  he  went  up  into  a  mountain  to  pray.  And 
when  it  was  evening,  he  was  there  alone.  But  the 
boat  in  the  midst  of  the  sea  was  tossed  with  the 
waves:  for  the  wind  was  contrary.  And  in  the 
fourth  watch  of  the  night,  he  came  to  them  walking 
upon  the  sta.  Ami  they  seeing  him  walking  upon 
the  sea,  \veretroubled,  saying:  It  is  an  apparition. 
And  they  cried  out  for  fear.  And  immediately  Jesus 
spoke  to  them,  saying  :  Be  of  good  heart;  it  is  I, 
fear  ye  not.  And  Peter  answering  said  :  Lord, 
if  it  be  thou,  bid  me  come  to  thee  upon  the  waters. 
And  he  said  :  Come.  Ami  Peter  going  down  out 
of  the  boat,  walked  upon  the  water  to  come  to 
Jesus.  But  seeing  the  wind  strong  he  was  afraid: 
and  when  he  began  to  sink,  he  cried  out,  saying  : 


Jth  JULV.  613 

Lord,  save  me*     And  immediately  Jesus  stretching 
forth  his  hand  took,  hold  of  him,   and  said  to  him  : 

0  thou  of  little  faith,  why  dost  thou  doubt  ?    And 
when   they  were  come  into    the  boat,    the  wind 
ceased      And  they  that  were  in  the  boat,  came  and 
adored  him,  saying  ;  Indeed  thou  art  the  Son  of 
God.    CREDO. 

OFFERT.  The  saints  shall  rejoice  in  glory :  they 
shall  rejoice  on  their  couches :  they  shall  sing  the 
high  praises  of  God. 

SECRET,  That  the  prayer?  and  offerings  we 
bring,  O  Lord,  may  be  acceptable  in  thy  sight, 
grant  we  may  be  assisted  by  the  prayers  of  thy  Apoi. 
ties  Peter  and  Paul.  Thro*. 

COMM.     Stone  as  the  foregoing  Gradual  to  the*. 

P.  COMM.  Prolege.--Pi<oMct*  O  Lord,  thy  peo- 
ple :  and  continually  preserve  those  who  have  con. 
ridence  in  the  intercession  ot  thy  holy  Apostles 
Peter  and  Paul.  Thro*. 

VII.     TRANSLATION  of  the  RELICS  of  St. 
THOMAS,  abp.  of  CANTERBURY,  m. 

All  as  on  the  2^th  of  December,  p.  85,  except 

COLLKCT.  Dais,  qui. — O  God,  who  grantest 
us  to  celebrate  the  Translation  of  the  relics  of 
blessed  Thomas  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop  :  we  humbly 
beseech  thee,  that,  by  his  merits  and  prayers,  we 
may  pass  from  vice  to  virtue,  and  from  the  prison  of 
this  flesh,  to  an  eternal  kingdom.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  O  God,  who  changest,  by  thy  hea- 
venly benediction,  the  bread  and  wine  into  thy 
body  and  blood :  grant,  that  by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  Thomas,  thy  Martyr  and  Bishop,  having  re- 
course to  thy  mercy,  we  may  conform  to  thy  will. 
Who  livest. 

COMM.  John  x,— I  am  the  good  shepherd,  and 

1  know  my  sheep,  and  my  gheep  know  me* 

3F 


614  8th  &:  loth  JULY. 

P.  COMM.  Dcus,  qui.-~O  God,  who  translated 
B.  Thomas,  thy  m.  and  bp.  from  temporal  suffer- 
ings  to  eternal  joys:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that 
we  who  celebrate  his  festival,  may,  by  his  patron- 
age, pass  to  the  joys  of  heaven.  Thro*. 

VIII.  St.  ELIZABETH,  w. 

All  as  in  Mass  XXI.  p.  502,  except 
COLLECT.  Clement issime. — O  most  merciful 
God,  who,  amongst  other  admirable  endowments, 
didst  privilege  blessed  Elizabeth  with  the  gift  of 
making  wars,  cease :  grant,  by  her  prayers,  that 
after  having  enjoyed  the  peace,  which  we  humbly 
crave  in  this  mortal  life,  we  may  be  received  into 
everlasting  bliss.  Thro'. 

X.   The  SEVEN  BRETHREN,  mm.  and  SS.  RU- 

FINA,  and  SECUNDA,  vv.  mm. 
INTROIT.  Ps.  cxii.— Praise  the  Lord,  ye  his 
servants,  praise  the  name  of  the  Lord  :  who  maketii 
the  barren  woman  to  cKveil  in  her  house  the  joyful 
mother  of  many  children.  Ps,  Blessed  be  the  name 
of  the  Lord  now  and  for  evermore.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Pnpste,— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  as  we  have  been  informed  of 
the  constancy  of  these  glorious  Martyrs  in  the  profes- 
sion of  thy  faith,  so  we  may  experience  their  kind- 
ness in  recommending  us  to  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 
LESSON.  Prav.  xxix,  as  in  p.  502. 
GRAD.  Ps.  cxxiii. — Our  soul,  like  the  sparrow, 
hath  escaped  from  the  hunter's  snare.  V.  The  snare 
broke,  and  we  have  escaped.*  Our  help  is  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord,  who  made  both  heaven  and  earth. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  These  were  truly  bro'tlu-rs, 
who  triumphed  over  the  iniquity  of  the  world,  fol- 
lowed Christ,  and  are  now  in  possession  of  the  glo* 
.rious  kingdom  of  heaven. 


\2th    JULY.  6l$ 

Malt.  xii.  46,  50.  —  At  Vtcit  time: 
As  Jesus  was  speaking  to  the  multitude,  behold  his 
mother  and  his  brethren  stood  without,  seeking  to 
speak  to  him.  And  one  said  to  him  :  Behold  thy 
mother  and  thy  brethren  stand  without  seeking 
thee.  But  he  answering  him  that  told  him,  said  : 
Who  is  my  mother  and  who  aie  my  brethren?  And 
stretching  forth  his  hand  towards  his  disciples,  he 
said  :  Behold  my  mother  and  my  brethren,  For 
whosoever  shall  do  the  will  of  my  Father  that  is  in 
heaven,  the  same  is  my  brother,  and  sister,  and 
mother. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxiii, — Our  soul,  &c.  as  above  in 
Grad  to* 

SECRET.  Mercifully,  O  Lord,  look  down  on 
the  sacrifice  which  we  offer  thee  ;  and  grant,  by  the 
intercession  of  thy  saints,  that  it  may  increase  our  de- 
votion, and  avail  to  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt,  xii Whosoever  shall  do  the 

will  of  my  Father,  who  is  in  heaven  :  the  same  is  my 
brother,  siller,  and  mother,  saith  the  Lord. 

P.  COMAI.  Qufcsumus.. -We  beseech  ihee,  O  Al- 
mighty God,  that,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  saints, 
we  may  obtain  the  effect  of  that  salvation,  a  pledge 
whereof  we  have  received  in  these  mysteries.  Thro'. 

XII.  St.  JOHN  GUALBERT,  ab.  c. 

All  as  in   Mass   XV,  *    p.    4^5,    except 

CQ£pCl+       Matt.  v.    43.  48.. -^    that     time: 

Jesus  said  to  hi:;  disciple*  ;   You   have   heard   that  it 

hath  been  said,  Thou  shalt  love  thy  nt-ighbour,  and 

hate   thine  enemy.     But  I  say  to  you,   love  your 

enemies,  do  good  to  them  that  hate  you  :  and  pray 

for  them  that   persecute  and  calumniate  you  :  that 

you   may  be  the  children  of  your  Father  who  is  in 

heaven,   who  maketh   his  sun  to  rise  upon  the  good 

and  bad,  and  raineth   upon  the  just  and  the  unjust. 

Fur  if  you  love  them  that  love  you,  what  reward  shall 

3  F  2 


616  i^th  &  l$th  JULY. 

you  have,  do  not  even  the  publicans  the  same.  And 
if  you  salute  your  brethren  only,  what  do  you  more? 
Do  not  also  the  heathens  the  same  ?  Be  you  therefore 
perfects  also  your  heavenly  Father  is  perfect. 
Commem.  ofSS.  Nabor  and  Felix,  mm. 

COLLECT.  Prasta. — Grant,  we  beseech  Uiee, 
O  Lord,  that  as  we  make  a  yearly  commemoration 
of  these  thy  holy  martyrs :  so  we  may  always  be  par- 
takers  of  their  intercession.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  offerings  of  thy  people  may  be  acceptable 
to  thee  through  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  martyrs 
Nabor  and  Felix :  and  that  they  may  be  rendered 
worthy  by  the  merits  of  those,  in  honour  of  whose 
triumphs  they  are  offered  to  thy  holy  name.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  JVafatoiw.— Being  refreshed,  by  virtue 
of  the  sacrament  we  have  received  on  the  festival  of 
thy  saints,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may 
eternally  enjoy  the  good  things  wherewith  thou  hast 
now  been  pleased  to  cherish  us.  Thro*. 

XIV.  St.  BONAVENTURE,  bp.  c.  and  D. 
All  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  485,  except 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxvi.  -.-  The  mouth  of  the  just  man 
shall  utter  wisdom,  and  his  tongue  shall  speak,  that 
which  is  just*  V.  The  law  of  God  is  in  hisheart* 
and  his  feet  shall  not  be  moved.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
V.  TlieLo:d  hath  sworn  and  he  will  not  repent. 
Thou  art  a  priest  for  ever  according  to  the  order  of 
Melchisedech.  Alleluia. 

OFFERT  Ps  Ixxxviii.  My  truth,  &c.  and 
SECRET,  May  Lhe  annual  solemnity,  &c.  as  in 
Mass  XL  p.  485. 

XV.  St.SWITHIN,  bp.  of  Winchester,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,   except 
COLLECT.  0/>wi/xtfefls...-Almighty  and  eternal 


!7*/4  JULY.  617 

God,  who  hast  made  this  day  honourable  by  the 
celebration  of  the  festival  of  blessed  Swithin,  thy 
Confessor  and  Up.  grant  to  thy  church,  that  we 
may  obtain  heaven  through  his  intercession,  whose 
memory  we  venerate  on  earth.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Look  down,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  on  thy  people  who  approach  thy  sacraments 
on  this  festival  of  blessed  Swithin,  thy  Confessor  and 
Bishop,  and  grant  that  \vhat  they  offer  in  honour  of 
thy  name,  may,  by  his  prayers,  avail  to  the  pardon  of 
their  sins.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Pignut.--. Having  received  the  pledge 
of  eternal  life,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  by 
the  intercession  of  blessed  Swithin,  thy  Confessor 
and  Bp.  we  may  hereafter  openly  partake  of  what 
we  have  now  sacramentally  received.  Thro*. 

XVI.    B.  V.  M.  (/MOUNT  C  ARMEL. 

All  as  in  the  Votive  Mass,  Salve,  p.  507,  except 

COLLECT.  Dens,  gni.—O  God,  who  hast  ho. 
noured  the  order  of  the  Carmelites  with  the  singular 
title  of  the  Blessed  V.  Mary,  Mother  of  God:  merci- 
fully grant  that  we  who  solemnize  this  her  comrne. 
moration,  may  by  the  aid  of  her  prayers  arrive  at 
eternal  happiness.  Tluo'. 

XVU.  St.  OSMUND,  bp.  «/ Salisbury,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  X.*  />.  482,   except 

COLLECT.  Omnipotens— Almighty  ami  eternal 
Cod,  who  rfjoicest  us  on  this  festival  of  blessed  Os- 
mund, thy  Confessor  and  Bp.  we  humbly  beseech.thy 
clemency,  that  as  we  devoutly  celebrate  his  solem- 
nity, we  may  obtain,  tluo'  his  prayers,  the  glory  of 
eternal  life.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
our  offerings  through  |he  merits  and  intercession  oi* 


618 

blessed  Osmund,  that  they  may  be  changed  into  the 
body  and  blood  of  thy  Son  Jesus  Christ,  and  avail 
to  the  salvation  of  our  souls.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Sumpt-is.  —  Having  received  thy  sa- 
cred gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  by  their 
efficacy  we  may  imitate  the  example  of  blessed  Os- 
mund, thy  Confessor  and  Bp.  and  thereby  obtain 
eternal  joys.  Thro*. 

XVIII.   St.  CAMILLUS  de  LELLIS,  c. 

1NTROIT.  No  man  hath  greater  love,  than  to 
lay  down  his  life  for  his  friends.  Ps.  B  essed  is  he 
that  attenueth  to  the  needy  and  poor;  for  in  the  evil 
day  the  J^ord  will  deliver  him.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  gni.—O  God,  who  didst  glo- 
riously animate  blessed  Camillas  with  a  singular 
charity  in  assisting  souls  in  their  last  agony  ;  pour 
forth,  ve  beseech  thee,  into  us,  by  his  intercession, 
the  spirit  of  thy  love,  that  we  may  overcome  the 
enemy  at  the  hour  of  death,  and  arrive  at  a  crown 
in  heaven-  Thro', 
Commem.  of  St.  SYMPHOROSA,  &c.  by 'the  Collect, 

&c.  of  Mass  VIII.  p  477. 

Epistle,  John  iii.   «s  in  p.  7,99     Grad.  and  Offert.  as 
in  Mass  XI.  pp.  484,  485. 

(S?0£fpeU  John  >v.  12,  i6.—-At  that  time; 
Jesus  said  to  his  disc ip Its :  This  is  my  command- 
ment,  that  ,011  love  one  another,  as  I  have  iovedyou. 
Greater  love  than  this  no  man  hath,  that  a  man  lay 
down  his  life  for  his  friends.  You  are  my  friends,  if 
you  do  the  tilings  that  I  command  you.  I  .will  not 
call  you  servants:  for  the  servant  knoxveth  not 
what  the  "Lord  doth.  But  I  have  called  \ou  aiends  : 
because  all  things  whatsot-ver  I  have  heard  of  my 
Father,  I  have  made  ki«t  wn  to  you.  You  have  not 
chosen  me :  bu'  I  have  chosen  you  ;  and  have  ap- 
pointed you,  that  you  should  go,  and  should  bring 


1 9*7*  &  20  J//  JULY.  619 

forth  fru/t ;  and  your  fruit  should  remain  :  that 
whatsoever  yon  shall  ask  of  the  Father  in  my  name, 
he  may  give  it  you. 

SECRET.  Let  the  spotless  victim,  by  the  offer- 
ing of  which  we  renew  the  work  of  our  redemption, 
(the  effects  of  the  immense  chanty  of  Jesus  Christ) 
become  for  us,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Camil- 
Itis,  a  salutary  remedy  Against  all  our  weaknesses  of 
body  and  soul,  and  a  comfort  and  defence  in  our 
last  aeony.  Thro*. 

COMM.  I  was  sick,  and  you  visited  me:  amen, 
amen,  I  say  unto  you  :  inasmuch  as  you  have  done 
this  to  one  of  the  least  of  my  brethren,  you  have 
done  it  unto  me. 

P.  COMM.  Per  luce.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  by  these  heavenly  mysteries,  which  we  have 
received  with  piety  and  devotion  on  this  festival  of 
blessed  Cnmillus,  that  we  may  be  refreshed  with  the 
same  at  the  hour  of  death,  and,  being  delivered 
from  all  sin,  be  joyfully  received  into  the  bosom  of 
thy  mercy.  Thro' 

*  XIX.    St.  VINCENT  a  PAULO,  c. 

Alias  in  Mass  XIV.  /?.  489,  except 
COLLECT.     Dcus,  qui.  —  O  God,  who   didst 
strengthen  blessed  Vincent  with  apostolic  courage  to 
preacii  the  gospel  to  the  poor,  and  promote  the  ho- 
nour of  'he  ecclesiastical  order  :    grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  we  who  inspect  his  merits,  mav   be   in- 
structed by  the  example  of  his  virtues.     Thro'. 
Grad.  Ps.  xci.   and  Gospel,    Luke  xti.  as  >•>  p.  4^8. 

XX.  St.  JEPtOMEEMILlAN,  c, 

1NTROIT.      Jtrcmidh    Lam.   ii.  ---  My   liver  is 

poured  out  on  tlu-  earth,  because   of  the  destruction 

of  the  daughters  of  my  people:  when  the  little  ones 

and  the  sucklings  fainted  in  the  streets  of  the  city. 


620  loth  JULY, 

Ps,  Praise  the  Lord,  ye  children :   praise  the  narne 
of  the  Lord.     F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  '  mi&ericordiarum.  —  O  God, 
the  Father  of" mercies:  grant,  by  the  merits  and  in. 
tercession  of  blessed  Jerome,  whom  thou  wast 
pleased  to  make  a  helper  and  father  to  poor  orphans, 
that  we  may  faithfully  preserve  the  spirit  of  adop- 
tion, by  which  we  are  called,  and  are  in  reality  thy 
children.  Thro'. 
Comm.  of  St.  MARGARET,  by  Me  Collect,  &c.  of 

Mass  XVU.;>.  496. 

LESSON,  Isaivh  Iviii.  7,  11.  — Deal  thy  bread 
to  the  hungry,  and  bringthe  needy  and  the  harbour- 
less  into  thy  house  ;  when  thou  shalt  see  one  naked, 
cover  him,  and  despise  not  thy  own  flesh.  Then 
shall  thy  light  break  forth  as  the  morning,  and  thy 
health  shall  speedily  arise,  and  thy  justice  shall  go 
before  thy  face,  and  the  glory  of  the  Lord  shall  ga- 
ther thee  up.  Then  shalt  thou  call,  and  the  Lord 
shall  hear:  thou  shalt  cry,  and  he  shall  say:  Here  I 
am.  If  thou  wilt  take  away  the  chain  out  of  the 
midst  of  thee,  and  cease  to  stretch  out  the  finger, 
and  to  speak  that  which  is  good  for  nothing.  When 
thou  shalt  pour  out  thy  soul  to  the  hungry,  and  shalt 
satisfy  the  afflicted  soul,  then  shall  thy  light  rise  up 
in  darkness,  and  thy  darkness  shall  be  as  the  noon- 
day. And  the  Lord  will  give  thee  rest  continually, 
and  will  fiM  thy  soul  with  brightness,  and  deliver  thy 
bones,  and  thou  shalt  be  like  a  watered  garden,  and 
like  a  fountain  of  water,  whose  waters  shall  not  fail. 

GRAD.  Pr&v.  v.  —  Let  thy  waters  be  led  forth, 
and  divide  thy  waters  in  the  street.  F.  Chearful  is 
the  man  who  taketh  pity  and  lendeth ;  he  disposeth 
his  words  with  judgment,  for  he  shall  remain  im- 
moveable  for  ever.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  F.  He 
distributed  and  gave  to  the  poor :  his  righteousness 
jemaineth  for  ever.  Alleluia. 


JULY.  6*1 

Mate.  xix.  13.  22.— At  Maf  #J/wc-« 
Some  little  children  were  presented  to  him,  that  he 
should  impose  hands  upon  tnem  and  pray.  And  the 
disciples  rebuked  them.  But  Jesus  said  to  them ; 
Suffer  the  little  children,  and  forbid  them  not  to 
come  to  me :  for  the  kingdom  of  heaven  is  tor  such. 
And  when  he  had  imposed  hands  upon  them,  he 
departed  from  thence.  Aixl  behold  one  came  and 
said  to  him:  Good  master,  what  good  shall  I  do 
that  I  may  have  life  everlasting  ?  Who  said  to 
him  :  Why  askest  thou  me  concerning  good  ?  One 
is  good,  God.  But  if  thou  wilt  enter  into  life,  keep 
the  commandments.  He  said  to  him :  which  ;* 
And  Jesus  said  :  Thou  shalt  do  no  inurder,  Thou.s/ialt 
not  commit  adultery,  Thou  shah  not  steal,  Tlwu  shalt 
not  bear  false  witness,  Honour  thy  father  and  thy  mo- 
ther i  and,  Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbour  as  thyself* 
The  young  man  saith  to  him :  All  these  things  have 
1  kept  from  my  youth,  what  is  yet  wanting  to  me  ; 
Jesus,saith  to  him  .  If  thou  wilt  be  perfect,  go,  sell 
what  thou  hast,  and  give  to  the  poor,  and  thou 
shalt  have  treasure  in  heaven  :  and  come,  follow  me. 
OFFER'!1.  Job  xii. — When  thou  didst  pray  with 
tears,  and  bury  the  dead,  and  when  thou  didst  leave 
thy  dinner,  and  hide  the  dead  in  thy  house  during 
the  day,  and  in  the  night  didst  bury  them,  I  offered 
thy  prayer  to  the  Lord. 

SECRET.  Most  merciful  God,  who  destroying 
the  old  man,  didst  vouchsafe  to  form  a  new  one  in 
blessed  Jerome  :  grant,  by  his  merits,  that  we  also, 
putting  on  the  new  man,  may  offer  theethis  sacrifice 
of  propitiation  ,as  a  most  sweet  odour.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Pure  and  spotless  religion  before  God 
the  Father  is  this :  to  visit  orphans  and  widows  in 
their  distress :  and  to  keep  one's  self  undefiled  in 
this  world. 

P.  COMM.  Angelorwn*  —  Being  refreshed  with 
the  bread  of  angels,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  O 


622  2lSt  &  22G?  JULY. 

Lord,  that  we  who  rejoice  on  the  solemnity  of 
blessed  Jerome,  thy  Confessor,  may  also  follow  hi^ 
example,  and  thereby  obtain  an  ample  reward  in 


heaven.    Thro 


XXI.  St.  HENRY,  Emperor. 

All  as  in.  Mass  XIII.  Os  justi,  ^.488,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  gui.—  -O'God,  who  didst  this 
day  remove  blessed  Flenry  thy  Confessor  from  his 
earthly  throne  to  an  eternal  kingdom  ;  we  humbly 
beseech  thee,  that  as,  by  the  assistance  of  thy  grace, 
he  was  proof  against  all  the  temptations  of  the 
world  ;  so  we  may  follow  his  example  in  withstand- 
ing all  the  flatteries  of  this  world,  and  serve  thee" 
with  clean  hearts.  Thro'. 

XXII     St.  MARY  MAGDALEN. 

INTROIT,  Me  expectaverunt,  as  in  p.  496. 

COLLECT.  Beat*  Maria.  —  Grant,  O  Lord, 
we  may  be  assisted  by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Mary 
Magdalen  :  at  whose  request  thou  wast  pleased  to 
raise  Lazarus  from  the  dead,  after  he  had  been  iour 
days  in  the  grave.  Who  liveth. 

LESSON.  Cant.  iii.  2,  5.  viii.  6,  7.  —  T  will  rise' 
and  qo  about  the  city  ;  in  the  streets  and  the  broad 
ways:  1  will  seek  him  whom  my  soul  loveth  :  I 
sought  him,  and  I  found  him  not  The  watchmen 
who  keep  the  city  found  me-  Have  you  seen  him 
whom  my  soul  loveth  ?  When  I  had  a  little  passed 
by  th^rn,  I  fouhd  him  whom  my  soul  loveth  ;  I 
heUi  him,  and  1  will  not  let  him  go,  till  I  bring 
him  into  my  mother's  house,  and  into  the  chamber 
of  her  that  bore  me.  I  adjure  you,  O  daughters  of 
Jerusalem,  by  the  roes  and  harts  of  the  field,  that 
you  stir  not  up  nor  wake  my  beloved  till  she  please. 
(Chap*  viii.)  Put  me  as  a  seal  upon  thy  heart,  as  a 


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seal  upon  thy  arm!  for  love  is  strong  as  death ;  jea- 
lousy is  hard  as  hell,  the  lamps  thereof  are  lamps  of 
fire  and  flames.  Many  w  it'jrs  cannot  quench  cha- 
rity, neither  can  the  floods  drown  it :  if  a  man  should 
give  all  the  substance  of  his  house  tor  love,  he  shall 
despise  it  as  nothing. 

GRAD.     P.S-.  xliv. — Thou  lovedst  righteousness 
and  hatedst  iniquity.     V.  Therefore  hath  God,  thy 
God.  anointed  thee  with  the  oil  of  gladness.     All  el. 
Allel.     V.  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips ;  therefore 
huth  God  blessed  thee  for  ever.     Alleluia. 
(0D0pCl?   Luke  vii   us  in  p*  221. 
OFFERT.     The  daughters  of  kings  honour  thee  i 
ithe  queen  was  on  thy  Fight  hand  irfa  robe  of  gold* 
with  a  variety  of  other  ornaments. 

•SECRET.  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the 
glorious  merits  of  blessed  Mary  Magdalen  may  ren- 
der our  offerings  acceptable  to  thee:  since  thy  only 
begotten  Son  graciously  received  the  service  whicri 
she  did  him.  Who  livcth. 

OOMM.  Ps.  cxviii.  f  have,  &c.  as  in  p.  497. 
P.  COMM.  Sumpta.  —  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  that  we  who  have  received  thy  precious 
body  and  blood,  the  only  sovereign  remedy,  may, 
by  the  intercession  of  the  blessed  Mary  Magdalen, 
be  delivered  from  all  evils.  Who  liveth. 

XXLTI.    St.  APOLINARIS,  bp.m. 

Alt  as  in  Mass  11.  p   464,  except 
COLLECT.     Dcus,  Jlddlum.  ...  O  God,   the  re- 
\vard»jr  of  thy  faithful  servants,  who  hast  consecrated 
this  iLiy  by  the  martyrdom  of  blessed  Apolinaris,  thy 
Bishop:  grant  we  may   obt.ti^  eiiti:\*  pardon  for  all 
our  offences,  by  his  prayers,  whose  memory  we  ce- 
lebrate on  this  present  '-stival.     Thro'. 
Comm.  of  St.  LIBORIUS,  by  the  Collect,  Secret 
nnd  P,  Comm,  (/Mass  X.*  p.  482. 


624  2? 

EPISTLE,  i  Peter  v.  i.  1 1.  —  Dearly  Moved \ 
The  ancients  that  are  among  you,  I  beseech,  wlB 
am  myself  also  an  ancient  and  a  witness  of  the  suf- 
ferings of  Christ,  as  also  a  partaker  of  that  glory 
which  is  to  be  revealed  in  time  to  come  :  Feed  the 
flock  of  God,  which  is  among  you,  taking  care  of  it 
not  by  constraint,  but  willingly  according  to  God: 
and  not  for  filthy  lucre's  sake,  but  voluntarily :  neithet 
as  lording  it  over  the  clergy,  but  being  made  a  pat- 
tern  of  the  flock  from  the  heart.  And  when  the 
Prince  of  pastors  shall  appear,  you  shall  receive  a 
never- fading;  crown  of  glory.  In  like  manner  ye 
young  men  be  subject  to  the  ancients.  And  dove 
all  insinuate  humility  one  to  another,  for  God  re. 
tistethtfu:  proud,  but  to  the  humble  he  giveth  grace.  Be 
you  humbled  therefore  under  the  mighty  hand  of 
God,  that  he  may  exalt  you  in  the  time  of  visitation  : 
casting  all  your  care  upon  him,  for  he  hath  care  of 
vou.  Be  sober  and  watch:  because  your  adversary 
the  devil,  as  a  roaiing  lion  goeth  about,  seeking 
whom  he  may  devour :  whom  resist  ye,  strong  m 
faith;  knowing  that  the  same  affliction  befals  your 
brethren  who  are  in  the  world.  But  the  God  of  all 
grace,  who  hath  called  us  into  eternal  glory  in 
Christ  Jesus,  after  you  have  suffered  a  little,  will 
himself  perfect  you,  and  confirm  you,  and  establish 
you.  To  him  be  glory  and  empire  forever  and  ever. 
Amen. 

GRAD.  Ps.  Ixxxvili,  to  Alleluia,  as  in  p.  462. 
r/  The  Lord  hath  sworn  it,  and  he  will  not  repent : 
TTioo  art  a  priest  for  ever  according  to  the  order  of 
S'lelchisedech.  Alleluia. 

(2500PSU  Luke  xii.  24.  3°-—^  ihat  il™e\ 
The  e  arose  a  stiife  among  the  disciples,  which  ot 
*hem  should  seem  the  greater.  And  Jesus  said  to 

in  •  Th«  kings  of  the  Gentiles  lord  it  over  them  s 
they  that  have  power  over  them,  are  called  be- 

3u    Be  yoa  not  so:  but  he  ihat  is  -rraier 


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itviongyo.il,  let  him  become  as  the  younger :  and 
is  leader,  as  he  that  serveth.  For  which  is 
greater,  he  that  sitteth  at  table,  or  he  that  serveth  ? 
s  not  he  that  sitteth  at  table  ?  But  I  am  in  the  midst 
of  you,  as  he  that  serveth :  and  you  are  they  who 
lave  continued  with  me  in  my  temptations:  and  £ 
dispose  to  you,  as  my  Father  hath  disposed  to  me,  a 
cingdom  :  that  you  may  eat  and  drink  at  my  table, 
in  my  kingdom:  and  may  sit  upon  thrones,  judging 
the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel. 

OFFERT.  My  truth  and  my  mercy  are  with 
,iim  ;  and  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be  exalted. 

SECttET.  Look  favourably,  O  Lord,  on  these 
gifts  which  we  offer  in  commemoration  of  blessed 
Apolinaris,  thy  Bp,  and  Martyr,  and  for  the  expia- 
tion of  our  offences.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Matt,  xxv.— Lord,  thou  didst  deliver  to 
me  five  talents;  behold  I  have  gained  five  more. 
VVell  done,  thou  good  and  faithful  servant:  since 
thou  hast  been  faithful  in  few  things,  I  will  make 
thee  ruler  over  many  :  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of 
thy  Lord. 

P.  COMM,  Tua  Sancia.  — •  Having  received  thy 
holy  mysteries,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we 
may  enjoy  the  continual  protection  of  blessed  Apo« 
linaris,  because  thou  never  ceasest  propitiously  to 
regard  those,  to  whom  thou  hast  granted  the  favour 
of  such  protection.  Thro'. 

XXIV.     St.  ALEXIUS,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,  with  a  Comm,  of  St. 
Pantuleon,  by  the  Collect,  &c.  of  Mass  IV.  p.  4^8, 
except 

m  EPISTLE,  i  Tifn.v\.6.i*....Dcar£rothtr:  God- 
liness with  contentment,  is  great  gain.  For  we 
brought  nothing  into  thU  world  :  and  certainly  we 
can  carry  nothing  out.  But  having  fooJ,  and  where- 
3G 


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"with  to  be  covered,  with  these  we  arc  content.  For 
they  that  will  becom^  rich,  tall  into  temptation, 
and  into  the  snare  of  'he  devil,  and  into  many  un- 
profitable and  hurtful  desires,  which  drown  men  in 
destruction  and  perdition.  For  covetousness  is  the 
root  of  ail  evil;  which  some  desiring,  have  erred 
from  the  faith,  and  have  entangled  themselves  in 
many  sorrov  s.  But  thou,  O  man  of  God,  fi>  these 
things,  and  follow  after  justice,  godliness,  faith, 
charity,  patience,  meekness.  Fight  the  good  fight 
of  faith,  lay  hold  on  eternal  life. 

Matt.  xxv.   as  in  ^.482. 


XXV.   St.  JAMES,  ap. 

INTROIT,  Mihi  autem,  as  in  p.  524. 

COLLECT.  Esto,  Dowinc.—  Sanctify,  O  Lord, 
and  preserve  thy  people;  that  being  assisted  by 
James,  thy  Apostle,  they  may  please  thee  in  their 
conduct  of  life,  and  always  serve  thee  with  a  stead- 
fast  faith.  Thro'. 

Commem.  of  St.  CHRISTOPHER,  m.  by  the  Collect, 
&c.  as  in  Mass  [II.  p.  466. 

LESSON,  i  Cor.  \v.  9,  15.—  Brethren:  I  think 
that  God  hath  set  forth  us  apostles,  the  last,  as  it 
were  men  appointed  to  death  :  because  we  are  made 
a  spectacle  to  the  world,  and  to  angels,  and  to  men. 
We  are  fools  for  Christ's  sake,  but  you  are  wise  id 
Christ:  we  are  weak,  but  you  are  strong:  you  are) 
honourable,  but  we  are  without  honour.  Even  unto 
this  hour  we  both  hunger  and  thirst,  and  are  nakedJ 
and  are  buffeted,  and  have  no  fixed  abode.  And) 
we  labour  working  with  our  own  hands:  we  are  re-j 
viled,  and  we  bless:  we  are  persecuted,  and  wej 
suffer  it.  We  are  blasphemed,  and  we  intreat  :  we) 
are  made  as  the  refuse  ot  this  world,  the  offscour.j 
in*  of  all  even  until  now.  I  write  not  these  thing?) 
toconfound  you  ;  but  I  admonish  you  as  my  dear.' 
eat  children  :  for  if  you  have  tea  thousand  instructor! 


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in  Christ,  yet  not  many  fathers.     For  in  Christ  Jesus 
by  the  gospel  I  have  begotten  you. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv.— Thou  wilt  set  them  rulers  over 
all  the  earth:  and  they  shall  remember  thy  name,  O 
Lord.  V.  In  place  of"  thy  fathers  thou  hast  children 
born  to  thee :  therefore  shall  nations  praise  thee. 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  i  chose  you  out  of  the  world, 
to  go  on  and  bring  forth  fruit,  and  that  your  fruit 
might  abide.  Alleluia. 

(S500p0l,    Mutt*  xx.  from  *  to  f,    as  in  p.  154. 

OFFEKT.  Ps.  xsxviii.  -.-  Their  sound  went  thro* 
the  whole  world :  and  their  words  to  the  fan  best 
bounds  of  the  earth. 

SECRET.  May  the  martyrdom  of  blessed  James, 
thy  Apostle,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  render  the 
oblations  of  thy  people  acceptable  to  thee  ;  and  may 
his  prayers  make  them  agreeable,  which  otherwise 
would  not  be  so,  for  want  of  merit  in  us. 

COMM.  You,  who  have  followed  me,  shall  sit 
on  thrones,  judging  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel. 

P.  COMM.  Beati...  Assist  us,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  James,  thy 
Apostle,  on  whose  festival -we  have  joyfully  received 
thy  holy  mysteries.  Thro'. 

XXVI.    St.  ANNE,  Mother  of  the  B.  V.  M. 

INTROIT.  Let  us  all  rejoice,  and  celebrate  this 
festival  in  honour  of  blessed  Anne;  on  whose  so- 
lemnity the  angels  rejoice,  and  praise  the  Son  of 
God.  Ps.  My  heart  hath  uttered  good  tidings  :  my 
Works  1  refer  to  the  king.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Vcus9  qui^.  O  God,  who  by  thy 
grace  wast  pleased  to  choose  blessed  Anne  to  be  the 
mother  of  the  Virgin  Mary  ;  mercifully  grant  that 
\ve,  who  celebrate  her  festival,  may  be  helped  by 
her  prayers  to  thee.  Thro'. 

LESSON,  p7vv*  xix.   as  in  p.  502. 


628  ±8/A  JULY. 

GRAD,  Thou  lovedst  righteousness  and  hatedst 
iniquity.  F.  Therefore  hath  God,  thy  God,  anointed 
thee  with  the  oil  of  gladness.  Alleluia,  Alleluia* 
V.  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips:  therefore  hath  God 
blessed  thee  for  ever.  Alleluia. 


,   Matt.  xiii.  as  in  p,  501. 

OFFERT.  The  daughters  of  kings  honour  thee  : 
the  queen  was  on  thy  right  hand  in  a  robe  of  gold, 
With  a  variety  of  other  ornaments. 

SECRET.  Being  appeased,  O  Lord,  by  this 
sacrifice,  look  down  upon  us,  and  grant  that,  by  the 
intercession  of  B.  Anne,  the  mother  of  her  who  bore 
thy  only  begotten  Son  J.  Christ,  it  may  increase  our 
devotion,  and  avail  to  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips:  therefore 
hath  God  blessed  thee  for  ever  and  ever. 

P.  COMM.  C«to#ws.—  Being  fed  by  these  hea- 
venly mysteries,  grant,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  ob- 
tain eternal  salvation,  by  the  intercession  of  B.Anne, 
whom  thou  wast  pleased  to  make  choice  of  to  be 
the  mother  of  her  who  bore  thy  Son.  Thro\ 

XXVIIL  SS.  NAZARIUS,  &c.  mm. 
Alias  in  Mass  VII.  p.  475,  except 

COLL.  Sanctorum*  —  We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  the  constancy  of  holy  Nazarius,  Celsus,  Victor, 
and  Innocent,  thy  servants,  in  the  professien  of  their 
faith,  may  be  a  lit  V  to  u-s,  and  a  means  of  obtaining 
strength  from  thee  in  all  our  infirmities.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Wisd.  x.  17,  20  —  God  hath  rendered 
to  the  just  the  wages  of  their  labours,  and  conducted 
them  in  a  wonderful  way  :  and  he  was  to  them  for  a 
covert  bv  day,  and  for  the  light  of  stars  by  night: 
and  he  brought  them  through  the  Red  Sea,  and  car- 
ried them  over  through  a  great  water.  But  their 
enemies  he  drowned  in  the  sea,  and  from  the  depth 


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of  hell  he  brought  them  out.  Therefore  the  just 
took  the  spoils  of  the  wicked,  and  tli^y  sung  to  thy 
holy  name,  O  Lord,  and  they  praised  with  one  ac- 
cord thv  victorious  hand,  O  Lord  our  God. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  being  appeased  by  the  offerings  we  make 
to  thee  in  honour  of  thy  saints,  Nazarius,  Celsus, 
Victor,  and  Innocent,  we  may  thereby  receive  new 
life.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Sanctorum.— Being  appeased,  O  Lord, 
v*e  beseech  thee,  by  the  intercession  of  holy  Naza- 
rius,  Celsus,  Victor,  and  Innocent,  grant  that  we 
may  receive  iu  eternal  salvation  the  mystery  we  now 
celebrate  in  time.  Thro*. 

XXIX,  St.  MARTHA,  v. 

All  us  in  Mass  XlX.p.  498,  except  the  Gospel,   Luke 

x.  as  on  August  i5th,  with  a  Comm.  fjf'SS.  FELIX, 

&c.  mm.  as  follows: 

COLLECT.  Prvrrtfl.—  Grant,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  that  as  thy  Christian  people  rejoice  on 
the  solemnity  of  thy  holy  mm.  Felix,  Simplicius, 
Faustin,  and  Beatrix;  so  they  may  partake  of  their 
eternal  joys,  and  be  one  day  possessed  of  that  happi- 
ness which  they  now  so  earnestly  desire.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  these  obla- 
tions in  commemoration  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Felix, 
Simplicius,  Faustin,  and  Beatrix:  numbly  beseech  - 
ing  thee  that  they  may  obtain  for  us  pardon  of  our 
sins,  and  eternal  salvation.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Premtu.- —Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  the  mysteries  we  have  cele- 
brated on  the  festival  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Felix, 
Simplicius,  Faustin,  and  Beatrix,  may  procure  for 
us  the  merciful  pardon  of  our  sins.  Thro1, 


XXX.    SS.  ABDON  and  SENNEN,  mm< 

Introit,  Grad.  to  Alleluia,  and  OfFert.  asin  Mass VII, 

P-  475- 

COLLECT.  Deus>—  O  God,  who  by  thy  abun- 
dant  grace,  didst  crown  B.  Ahdon  and  Sennen  with 
glory:  grant  thy  servants  the  pardon  of  their  sins, 
that,  the  merits  of  thy  saints  pleading  in  our  behalf 
we  may  be  delivered  from  all  adversities,  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  vi.  4,  u  -  -Brethren;  Let  us 
exhibit  ourselves  as  the  ministers  of  God,  in  much 
patience!  in  tribulation,  in  necessities,  in  distresses, 
in  stripes,  in  prisons,  in  seditions,  in  labours,  in 
watchings,  in  fastings,  in  chastity,  in  knowledge,  in 
long  suffer  ngs,  in  sweetness,  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  in 
charity  unfeigned^  in  the  word  of  trutn,  in  the  pow- 
er of  God;  by  the  armour  of  justice  on  the  right 
hand,  and  on  the  left :  by  honour,  and  dishonour, 
by  evil  report,  and  good  report .  as  deceivers,  and 
yet  true  :  as  unknown,  and  yet  known :  as  dying, 
and  behold  we  live:  as  chastised,  and  not  killed: 
as  sorrowful,  yet  always  rejoicing:  as  needy,  yet 
enriching  many  :  as  having  nothing,  and  possessing 
all  things. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  F".  The  souls  of  the  righteous 
are  in  the  hands  of  God,  and  the  torments  of  the 
wicked  shall  not  touch  them.  Alleluia. 

d500pttj   Matt.  v.  as  cm  the  ist  November. 

SECRET,     Grant,  as  in  p.  4;  t . 

COMAL  Ps.  Ixxviii.— They  gave  the  bodies  of 
thy  servants,  O  Lord,  to  be  meat  tor  the  fowls  of  the 
air,  and  the  flesh  of  thy  saints  to  the  beasts  of  the 
field.  According  to  the  power  of  thy  arm  protect  the 
children  of  those  that  have  been  slain. 

P.  COMM.  Per  /tw/tfs.-'-i-Jy  virtue  of  this  mys- 
tery, O  kord,  may  our  vices  be  destroyed,  and  by 
the  intercession  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Abdou  and 
Seimen,  our  just  desires  fulfilled. 


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XXXI.     St.  IGNATIUS,  Confessor. 
INTROIT,    to  Ps.  as  in  p.  94-    P*  All  who  love 
thy  name  shall  glory  in  th-e  :  because  thou  wilt  bless 
the  righteous  man,     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  <jui.  -O  God,  who  tor  the 
increase  of  the  glory  of  thy  holy  name,  wast  pleased, 
by  blessed  Ig.iatius,  to  strengthen  thy  Church  mi- 
litant with  a  new  supply:  grant,  that  being  aided  by 
his  prayers,  during  our  warfare  on  earth,  we  may  so 
imitate  his  virtues,  as  to  be  happily  crowned  with 
him  in  heaven.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,   2  Tim.  as  in  p.  4^8. 
GRAD.    Ps.  xc'u  The  just  man,  &c.  p.  4*S. 
(BoSpCl,   Luke  x.  as  on  St.  MarMAc  25th  April. 
OFFERT.    Ps.  Ixxxvi.— My  truth  and  my  mercy 
are  with  him:  and   in  my  name  his  power  shall  be 
exalted. 

SECRET.  May  the  charitable  prayers  of  blessed 
Ignatius,  O  Lord,  accompany  our  oblation:  that 
the  holy  mysteries  wherein  thou  hast  established  the 
fountain  of  all  holiness,  may  also  sanctify  us  in 
truth.  Thro'. 

COMM.  L'ikc  xii.  —  I  came  to  cast  fire  on  the 
earth,  and  what  is  my  will,  but  that  it  be  enkindled. 
P.  COMM.  JsnuUf.-  May  the  sacrificeof  praise, 
O  Lord,  which  we  have  offered  thee  with  thanks* 
giving  for  holy  Ignatius,  cause  us  to  arrive,  by  his 
intercession,  at  that  happy  state  where  we  may  per- 
petually praise  thy  majesty.  Thro'. 

August  L.     St.  PKTER's  CHAINS. 

All  as  on  the  29th  o/'June,  p.  606,   except 
COLLECT.    Dcus,  qui.~  O  God,  who  deliver- 
edst  blessed  Peter  the  Apostle  from  his  chains,  and 
set  him  untouched  at  liberty,  deliver  us,  we  beseech 


63!  2fiZ&  4th  AUGUST. 

tbee,  from  the  bonds  of  our  sins,  and  mercifully  pro- 
tect us  from  all  evil.  Thro*. 

II.    St.  STEPHEN,  pirn. 

INTROIT.   PA*,  cxxxi I  will  clothe  his  priests 

with  salvation,  and  his  saints  shall  be  transported 
with  joy.  Ps.  O  Lord,  remember  David  and  all  his 
meekness  in  suffering.  V .  Glory. 

COLLECT,  Deus,  qui  nos,  as  in  p.  464. 

LESSON.  Acts  xx.  17,  21 .— In  those  days  ;  Paul 
sending  from  Miletus  to  Ephesus,  he  called  the  an- 
cients of  the  church.  And  when  they  \vere  come  to 
him,  and  were  together,  he  said  to  them:  You 
know  from  the  first  day  that  1  came  into  Asia,  in 
what  manner  I  have  been  with  you  for  all  the  time ; 
serving  the  Lord  with  all  humility,  and  with  tears, 
and  temptations,  which  befel  me  by  the  conspira- 
cies of  the  Jews  :  how  1  have  kept  back  nothing  that 
was  profitable  to  you,  but  have  preached  it  to  you, 
and  taught  you  publicly,  and  irom  house  to  house: 
testifying  both  to  Jews  and  Gentiles  penance  towards 
God,  and  faith  in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
Grad.  Eccl.  p.  482.  Gospel,  Matt.  xVi.  OrTert, 

Secret,    and  P.  Comm.   as  in  p.  465.      Comm. 

(Lord  thou  didst  give)  as  on  the,  2-$&  July,  p,  625. 

IV.    St.  DOMINIC,  c. 

INTRO'T.  Osjusti,  as  in  p.  488. 

COLLECT.  De.u$9  qui.-~O  God,  who  hast  en- 
lightened thy  church  by  the  eminent  virtues  and 
preaching  of  blessed  Dominic,  thy  Confessor :  -grant 
that  by  his  prayers  we  may  be  provided  against  all 
temporal  necessities,  and  daily  improve  in  all  spiri- 
tual aood.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  2  Tim.  as  in  p.   486. 

GRAD.  The  just  man  shall  flourish  like  the 
palm-tree:  be  sfcalj  thrive  like  the  cedar  pfLibanus 


6th   AUGUST,  635 

in  the  house  of  the  Lord.  V.  To  publish  thy  mercy 
in  the  morning,  and  thy  truth  by  night.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  V.  The  just  man  shall  bud  forth  like  the 
lily,  and  flourish  for  ever  before  the  Lord.  Alleluia. 

C50Sp0l,    Liikexn.   as  in  p.  488. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  Ixxxviii. — My  truth  and  my  mercy 
are  with  him,  and  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be 
exalted. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  gifts  we  have 
offered  thee,  and  by  the  merits  of  blessed  Dominic, 
thy  Confessor,  grant  that  they  may  be  healing  to 
us.  Thro'. 

COMM.  This  is  the  faithful  and  prudent  servant, 
whom  the  Lord  placed  over  his  family,  to  give  them 
their  measure  of  wheat  in  due  season, 

P.  COMM.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  we  who  are  oppressed  with  the  burden  of 
our  sins,  may  be  delivered  therefrom  by  the  inter- 
cession ot'B.  Dominic,  thy  Confessor.  Thro** 

VI.  TRANSFIGURATION  of  our  LORD, 

INTROIT.  Ps.  Ixxvii.— The  lightning  flashed 
over  the  earth  :  the  earth  shook  and  trembled. 
Ps.  How  lovely  are  thy  tabernacles,  O  Lord  of  Hosts! 
My  soul  longeih  and  iainteth  for  the  courts  of  the 
Lord.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT,  Dtus,  qui.  —  O  God,  who  by  the 
testimony  of  the  prophets,  didst  confirm  the  myste- 
ries of  our  faith  in  the  glorious  transfiguration  of  thy 
Son,  and  by  a  voice  from  heaven  shewedst  us  that 
we  are  thy  adopted  children  ;  mercifully  grant  that 
we  may  be  heirs  to  the  king  of  Glory,  and  partakers 
of  his  bliss.  Thro'. 

Commem.  of  St.  XYSTUS,  &c.  mm.  ly  the  Collect, 
Secret  and  P.  Comm.  o/'Mass  VI.  p.  473. 

EPISTLE.  2j>dcri.  16,  19.— Dearly  belwei s 
\Ve  have  not  followed  cunningly  devised  fables, 


634  6/A  AUGUST. 

\vhen  we  made  known  to  you  the  power  and  pre- 
sence of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ:  but  having  been 
made  eye-witnesses  of  his  majesty.  For,  he  received 
from  God  the  Father,  honour  and  glory:  this  voice 
coming  down  to  him  from  the  excellent  glory,  This 
is  my  beloved  Sou  in  whom  I  am  well  pleased,  hear  ye 
him*  And  this  voice  we  heard  brought  from  hea- 
ven, when  we  were  with  him  in  the  holy  mount. 
And  we  have  the  more  prophetical  word  :  where- 
unto  you  do  well  to  attend,  as  to  a  light  that  shineth 
in  a  dark  place,  until  the  day  dawn,  and  the  day- 
star  arise  in  your  hearts. 

GRAD.  Ps  xliv. — Thou  art  beautiful  above  the 
sons  of  men:  grace  is  spread  on  thy  lips.  V.  My 
heart  hath  uttered  g@od  tidings,  1  refer  my  wotks  to 
the  teiflg.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  He  is  the  bright- 
ness of  eternal  light;  the  spotless  mirror  and  image 
of  his  goodness.  Alleluia. 

<J500p0l,  Matt.  xvii.  as  in  p.  147. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxi.  —  Glory  and  riches  are  in  his 
house;  and  his  righteousness  abideth  for  ever  and 
ever.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
our  oblations,  by  the  glorious  transfiguration  of  tnine 
only  begotten  Son:  and,  by  the  splendor  ot  his 
light,  cieanse  us  from  the  stains  of  our  sms.  Thro't 

PREFACE,  Qina  per  incarnati,  p.  xxx. 

COMM.  Matt.  xvii.  —  Tell  not  the  vision  you 
have  seen  to  any  one,  till  the  Son  of  Man  arises  from 
the  dead. 

P.  COMM.  Prasta.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  our  minds  being  enlight- 
ened, we  may  comprehend  the  mysteries  we  cele- 
brate on  the  solemnity  of  the  Transfiguration  of  thy 
Son.  Thro'. 


jth  &  8th  AUGUST.  €35, 

VI  L  St.  C  A  JET  AN,  c. 
Alias  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus.— O  God,  thro'  whose  grace 
B.  Cajetaii  imitated  the  life  of  the  Apostles;  grant, 
by  his  prayers  and  example,  that  we  may  always  rely 
on  thee,  and  fix  our  hopes  on  heaven.  Thro' 

COLLECT,  Of  St.  DOXATUS.  —  O  God,  the 
glory  of  thy  priests :  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  to  us 
thy  servants,  that  in  solemnizing  the  festival  of  thy 
holy  m.  and  bp.  Donatus,  we  may  be  partakers  of 
his  prayers.  Thro'. 

(150£?pCl,    Matt.  vi.  as  in  p.  426. 

SECRET.  (O/'St.  DONATUS.)  Increase  in  us,  O 
Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  the  fruits  of  true  devotion, 
by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Donatus,  thy  m.  and 
bp.  whom  we  honour  by  offering  the  gifts  conse- 
crated to  the  praise  of  thy  name.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  (Of  St.  DONATUS.)  Almighty  and 
eternal  God,  who  imkest  us  partakers  and  ministers 
of  thy  sacraments:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  by 
the  intercession  of  blessed  Donatus,  thy  m.  and  bp, 
we  may  imitate  his  faith  and  piety.  Thro'. 

VIIL  SS.  CYRIACUS,  LARGUS,  &c.  mm. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xxxiii.  —  Fear  the  Lord,  all  ye 
his  saints,  for  nothing  is  wanting  to  those  that  fear 
him:  the  rich  have  been  in  want  and  hunger:  but 
they  that  seek  the  Lord  shall  be  in  want  of  no  good 
thing,  Ps.  1  will  bless  the  Lord  at  all  times  :  his 
praise  shall  be  for  ever  in  my  mouth.  K".  Glory. 

COLLECT,   1)<  us,  qui,  cm  in  p.  479. 

EPISTLE,  i  T/itss.  ii.  13.— Brethren:  We  also 
give  thanks  to  God  without  ceasing :  because  that 
when  you  had  received  of  us  the  word  of  the  hearing 
of  God,  you  received  it  not  as  the  word  of  men,  but 
(as  it  is  indeed)  the  word  of  God,  who  worketh  ia 


6j6  %th    AUGUST. 

you  that  have  believed.  For  you,  brethren,  are  be* 
come  followers  of  the  churches  of  God  which  are  iii 
Judea,  in  Christ  Jesus:  for  you  also  have  suffered 
the  same  things  from  your  own  countrymen,  even  as 
they  have  from  the  Jews:  who  both  killed  the  Lord 
Jesus,  and  the  prophets,  and  have  persecuted  us,  and 
they  pleased  not  God,  and  are  adversaries  to  all 
men  ;  forbidding  us  to  speak  to  the  Gentiles  that 
they  may  be  saved,  to  fill  up  their  sins  always;  ibr 
the  wrath  of  God  is  come  upon  them  to  the  end. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxiii, — Fear  the  Lord  all  ye  his 
saints:  for  nothing  is  wanting  to  those  that  fear 
him.  V.  They  that  seek  the  Lord  shall  abound  in 
all  good  things.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  lr.  Wisd.  iii. 
The  righteous  shall  shine,  and  shall  run  as  fire 
among  the  reeds,  forever.  Alleluia. 

<350£pCU  Mark  xvi.  15,  18.— At  that  time; 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  Go  ye  into  the  whole 
world  and  preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature.  He 
that believeth,  and  is  baptized,  shall  be  saved:  but 
he  that  believeth  not  shall  be  condemned.  And 
these  signs  shall  follow  them  that  believe :  in  my 
name  they  shall  cast  out  devils:  they  shall  speak 
with  new  tongues:  they  shall  take  up  serpents:  and 
if  they  shall  drink  any  deadly  thing,  it  shall  not  hurt 
them;  they  shall  lay  their  hands  upon  the  sick,  and 
they  shall  recover. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxxi,  —  Rejoice  hi  the  Lord  and 
leap  for  joy,  ye  righteous:  and  praise  him,  all  ye 
upright  of  heart. 

SECRET.  May  our  devotion,  O  Lord,  be  pleas* 
ing  to  thee,  and  avail  us  to  salvation,  by  the  merits 
of  those  on  whose  festival  we  pay  it  to  thee.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps,  xvi. — These  miracles  shall  accom- 
pany those  that  believe  in  me:  they  shall  lay  hands 
on  the  sick,,  and  they  shall  recover. 

P.   COMM.  (Tieficti,)  as  in  p.  473. 


gift  &  10th  AUGUST.  657 

IX.  VIGIL  o/  St.  LAWRENCE,  m. 
1NTRO1T.  Ps.  cxviii.-.-He  distributed  what  he 
had,  and  gave  it  to  the  poor:  his  righteousness 
abideth  for  ever :  his  power  shall  be  gloriously 
raised.  Ps.  Blessed  is  the  man  that  feareth  the 
Lord  ;  in  his  commandments  shall  he  take  great  de- 
light. V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Adesto.-  Give  ear,  O  Lord,  to  our 
prayers,  and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Lawrence 
thy  martyr,  whose  festival  we  are  now  preparing  to 
celebrate,  pour  forth  upon  us  the  gift  of  thy  ever  last* 
ing  mercy.  Thro*. 
Commem.  o^St.  ROMANUS,  by  the  Collect,  &c.  of 

Mass  IV.  p.  46  S. 

LESSON?  Eccles.  li.  as  in  p.  496. 
GRAl).    He  distributed  what  he  had,   he  gave  it 
to  the  poor,  his  righteousness  abideth  for  ever      V. 
His  seed  shall  be   powerful   upon  earth;   and  the 
children  of  the  upright  shall  be  blessed. 
OSO^pCl,   Mutt.  xvi.  as  in  p.  465. 
OFFER!*.  Job  xvi. — My  prayer  is  pure,  there* 
fore  I  desire  it  may  be  heard  in  heaven :   for  there  is 
my  Judge,  and  he  that  knoweth  my  heart  is  on  high  ; 
let  my  prayer  ascend  to  the  Lord. 

SECRET.  Favourably  receive  our  offerings,  O 
Lord,  and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Lawrence, 
thy  martyr,  loosen  the  bonds  of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

COMM.  LK  him  who  serveth  me,  follow  me  j 
and  wlu  re  I  am,  there  also  shall  my  servant  be. 

P.  COMM.  Da,  quti-sjiiitus. — Grant,  we  beseech 
rliee,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  as  we  rejoice  on  the 
feasts  of  thy  saints  in  this  life,  so  we  may  enjoy  their 
sight  for  ever  in  that  which  is  to  come.  Thro'. 

X.  St.  LAWRENCE,  m. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xcvi.  —  Praise  and  beauty  are  in 
his  sight :  holiness  and  magnificence  in  his  sanciuary. 
3  " 


AUGUST. 

Ps.  Sing  to  the  Lord  anew  song :  sing  to  the  Lord 
all  the  earth-     V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Da  nobis.—* Enable  us,  we  beseech 
the,e,  O  Almighty  God,  to  extinguish  in  ourselves 
the  noxious  heat  of  sin,  by  whose  grace  blessed  Law- 
rence triumphed  over  iiames  and  the  most  exquisite 
torments.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.      zCor.h.  6.   10 Brethren,:  lie 

\vlio  soweth  sparingly,  shall  also  reap  sparingly  :  and 
he  who  soweth  in  blessings,  shall  also  reap  of  bles- 
sings. Every  one  as  he  hath  determined  in  his  heart,  " 
not  with  sadness,  or  of  necessity.  For  God  lovctk  a 
ckcarful  giver.  And  God  is  able  to  make  all  grace 
abound  in  you  ;  that  ye  always  having  all  sufficient 
cy  in  all  things  may  abound  to  every  good  work. 
As  it  is  written  :  He  hath  dispersed  abroad,  he  ftttth 
given  to  the  poor :  his  justice  remaincth  for  ever. 
And  he  that  minis  tereth  seed  to  the  sower,  will 
both  give  you  bread  to  eat,  and  will  multiply  your 
seed,  and  increase  the  growth  of  the  fruits  of  your 
justice. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xvi—. Thou  hast  tried  my  heart,  G 
Lord,  and  visited  me  by  night,  V.  Thou  hast  tried 
me  by  fire  \  and  hast  found  no  iniquity  in  me.  AU 
leluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Lawrence  the  Deacon  wrought 
a  good  work  ;  who  by  the  sign  of  the  cross  gave  sight 
to  the  blind.  Alleluia. 

d50#pel>  Johnxn.  24,  26.  — - -4*  that  time: 
Jesus  said  to  his  disciples  :  Amen,  amen  I  say  to 
you,  unless  the  grain  of  wheat  falling  into  the 
ground,  die,  itself  remaioeth  alone.  But  if  it  die,  it 
bringeth  forth  much  fruit.  He  that  loveth  his  life, 
shall  lose  it :  and  he  that  hateth  his  life  in  this  world, 
keepeth  it  unto  lite  eternal.  If  any  man  minister 
unto  me,  let  him  follow  me:  and  where  lam,  there 
also  shall  my  minister  be.  If  any  man  minister  to 
,iK:,  him  will  my  Father  honour. 


tlth  &   \$th    AUGUST.  639 

OFFERT.  P/.  xcv.— Praise  and  beauty  are  in  his 
sight:  holiness  and  magnificence  in  his  sanctuary. 

SECRET.  Graciously  receive  our  offerings,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord :  and  in  consideration  of  the 
merits  and  prayers  of  blessed  Lawrence,  grant  they 
may  aid  us  to  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  John  x.  —  Let  him  who  serveth  me, 
follow  me:  and  where  I  am,  there  also  shall  my 
servant  be. 

P.  COMM.  Sacro  —  Being  nourished  by  thy 
sacred  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  what 
we  perform  according  to  our  bounden  duty,  we 
may  sensibly  perceive  to  advance  our  salvation,  by 
the  intercession  ofB.  Lawrence,  thy  martyr.  Thro'. 

XI.  Commem.  o/SS.  TIBURTIUS,  &c.  mm. 

COLLECT.  Sanctorum.  —  May  we  always  find 
comfort,  O  Lord,  in  the  continual  protection  of  thy 
lioly  mm.  Tiburtius  and  Susanna:  for  we  trust  thou 
wilt  ever  regard  those  with  an  eye  of  mercy,  whom 
ihou  favourest  with  such  succours.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Favourably,  O  Lord,  receive  the  of- 
ferings and  prayers  of  thy  people,  that  the  oblation 
of  the  sacred  mysteries  may  be  acceptable  to  thee, 
by  the  intercession  of  thy  saints.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  (SumpttwiMi—^Orant,  O  Lord,  'that 
the  pledge  of  eternal  redemption  which  we  have  re- 
ceived, may  procure  for  us,  by  the  intercession  of 
thy  holy  martyrs,  the  succours  necessary  for  this  life 
and  that  to  come.  Thro*. 

XIII.  Commem.  o/SS.  HYPPOLITE,  &c.  mm. 

COLLECT.    Da,  quastwius. — Grant,  we  beseech 

thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  sacred  solemnity 

.of  thy  holy  mm.  Hyppolite  and  Cassian,   may  be 

to  us  an  increase  of  devotion,  and  a  help  to  ' 

tion.    Thro'. 


<>4°  1 4th   AUGUST. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  our  offerings  on 
this  festival  of  thy  saints:  and  may  their  bearing 
witness  of  thy  truth  advance  our  salvation,  Thrp'. 

P.  COMM.  Sacramentorum.  —  Let  the  participa- 
tion of  thy  sacraments,  O  Lord,  save  us :  and  con- 
firm  us  in  the  light  of  thy  truth.  Thro'. 

XIV.     VIGIL  of  the  ASSUMPTION. 

INTR01T,  Vultumtuum,  p.  499. 

COLLECT.  Dem,  qui.  —  O  God,  who  wast 
pleased  to  make  choice  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  in 
her  to  dwell  for  a  time,  grant,  \ve  beseech  thee, 
that  being  secure  under  her  protection,  we  may  with, 
comfort  solemnize  her  festival.'  Who  livest. 
Collect,  &c,  o/'St.  Lawrence,  as  on  Jus  Feast,  p,  638. 
Collect,  &c.  of  Si.  Eusebius,  as  in  Mass  XIIJ.  p.  488. 

LESSON.  Eccles*  xxiv.  23.  —  As  the  vine  1 
have  brought  forth  a  sweet  odour :  and  my  flowers 
are  the  fruit  of  honour  and  riches.  I  am  the  mother 
of  fair  love,  and  of  fear,  and  of  knowledge,  and 
of  holy  hope.  In  me  is  all  grace  of  the  way 
and  of  the  truth.  In  me  is  the  hope  of  life  and  of 
virtue.  Come  over  to  me,  all  ye  that  desire  me, 
and  be  filled  with  my  fruits.  For  my  spirit  is  sweet 
above  honey,  and  my  inheritance  above  honey  and 
the  honey-comb.  My  memory  is  unto  everlasting 
generations.  They  that  eat  me,  shall  yet  hunger  j 
and  they  that  drink  me,  shall  yet  thirst.  He  that 
hearkeneth  to  me,  shall  not  be  confounded :  and 
they  that  work  by  me,  shall  not  sin.  They  that 
explain  me,  shall  have  life  everlasting. 

GRAD.     Thou  art  blessed,  to  AlieU  as  in  p.  507. 

(BD0pti,  Luke  xi.  as  in  p.  $0$. 

OFFEK/T.     JSlessed  art  thou,  &c,  as  in  p.  508. 

SECRET.  May  the  intercession,  O  Lord,  of 
the  Mother  of  God  render  our  offerings  acceptable 
to  thee,  whom  ihou  didst  take  out  of  this  present 


l$th    AUGUST.  641 

world,  that  she  might  intercede  with  thee  for  the 
pardon  of  our  sins.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Blessed  is  the  womb  of  Mary  the  Vir- 
gin, which  bore  the  Son  of  the  eternal  Father. 

P.  COMM.  CW-eflfc.  —  Assist,  O  merciful  God, 
our  frailty  ;  that  we,  who  are  preparing  to  celebrate 
the  festival  of  the  holy  Mother  of  God,  may,  by  the 
succour  of  her  prayers,  rise  from  our  iniquities. 
Thro*. 

xv.  assumption  of  the  B.  v.  M. 

INTROIT. 

LET  us  'all  rejoice  in  f~^  Audeamus  omnes  in 
the  Lord,  whilst  we  \J  Domino,  diem  fes- 
celebrate  this  .festival  in  turn  celebrantes  sub  ho- 
honour  of  the  B.  V.  M.  nore  heatae  Marise  Virgi- 
for  whose  Assumption  ni>,  decujusAssumptione 
tlie  angeis  rejoice,  and  gaudent  angeli,  et  coi- 
praise  the  Son  of  God.  laudant  Filium  Dei. 
Ps.  My  heart  uttered  Ps.  Eiiictavit  cor  me  inn 
good  tidings:  my  works  verbum  bonum:  ciico  ego 
I  refer  to  the  king.  opera  mea  Regi. 

V.  Glory.  V.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Famulorum  — Forgive,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  the  sins  of  thy  people:  that  we,  who 
are  not  able  to  do  any  thing  of  ourselves  that  can  be 
pleasing  to  thee,  may  be  assisted  in  the  way  of  sal- 
vation by  the  prayers  of  the  Mother  of  thy  Son. 
Thro*  the  same. 

LESSON.  Ecclcs.  xxiv.  n.  20.— I  sought  rest, 
and  I  shall  abide  in  the  inheritance  of  the  Lord. 
Then  the  Creator  of  all  things  gave  his  orders,  :>nd 
said  to  me :  and  he  that  made  me,  rested  in  my  ta* 
hernacle,  and  he  said  to  me:  Let  thy  dwelling  be  in 
Jacob,  and  thy  inheritance  in  Israel,  and  take  root 
in  my  elect.  From  the  beginning,  and  before  the 
world  was  I  created,  and  unto  the  world  to  come  I 
3"  3 


64«  *$tk    AUGUST* 

shall  not  cease  to  be,  and  in  the  holy  dwelling-place 
I  have  ministered  before  him.  And  so  was  1  estab- 
lished in  Sioii,  and  in  the  holy  city  likewise  I  rested, 
and  my  power  was  in  Jerusalem.  And  1  took  root 
in  an  honourable  people,  and  in  the  portion  of  my 
God  his  inheritance,  and  my  abode  is  in  the  full  as- 
sembly  of  the  saints.  T  was  exalted  as  a  cedar  in 
Libanus,  and  as  a  cypress  tree  on  mount  Sion.  I 
was  exalted  like  a  palm  tree  in  Cades,  and  as  a  rose 
plant  in  Jericho:  as  a  fair  olive-tree  in  the  plains, 
and  as  a  plane-tree  by  the  water  in  the  streets,  was 
I  exalted.  I  gave  a  sweet  smell  like  cinnamon,  and 
aromatical  balm  :  I  yielded  a  sweet  odour  like  the 
best  myrrh. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xliv  — For  thy  truth,  thy  meekness, 
and  righteousness,  shall  thy  right  hand  also  lead 
thee  on  wonderfully.  V.  Hear,  O  daughter,  and 
see,  and  be  attentive;  for  the  king  is  taken  with  thy 
beauty.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Assurnpta  est  Ma. 
ria  in  calum,  gaudcl  excrcitus  ungelorum.  Alleluia. 
V.  Mary  is  taken  up  into  heaven,  and  all  the  host  of 
angels  are  in  joy.  Alleluia* 

d50gpCl+  Luke  x.  38,  42.  —At  that  time; 
Jesus  entered  into  a  certain  town;  and  a  certain  wo* 
man  named  Martha,  received  him  into  her  house. 
And  she  had  a  sister  called  Mary.  Who  sitting  also 
at  the  Lord's  feet,  heard  his  word,  But  Martha 
was  busy  about  much  serving.  Who  stood  and 
said:  Lord,  hast  thou  no  care  that  my  sister  hath 
left  me  alone  to  serve  ?  Speak  to  her  therefore,  that 
she  help  me.  And  the  Lord  answering,  said  to  hers 
Martha,  Martha,  thou  art  careful,  and  art  troubled 
about  many  things.  But  one  thing  is  necessary, 
Mary  hath  chosen  the  best  part,  which  shall  not  be 
taken  from  her.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Mary  is  taken  up  into  heaven,  the  angels 
rejoice,  and  join  in  the  praises  of  the  Lord.  Allel. 

SECRET.    May  the  prayer,  O  Lord,  of  the  MSK 


SUNDA.Y  WITHIN  THE  OCTAVE. 

ther  of  God  assist  thy  people:   that  we  may  experu* 
«nce  her  intercession  tor  us  in  thy  heavenly  glory, 
whom  we  know  departed  this  life  to  satisfy  the  con- 
dition of  our  mortality.     Thro'. 

COMM.  Luke  x.— -Mary  has  chosen  the  best  part, 
which  shall  not  be  taken  from  her  for  ever. 

P.  COMM.  Menscc.— Having  partaken  of  thy 
heavenly  table,  we  humbly  beseech  thy  clemency, 
O  Lord  our  God,  that  we  who  honour  the  Assump- 
tion of  the  Mother  of  God,  may,  by  her  intercession, 
be  delivered  from  all  evils  Thro'. 

SUNDAY  icMin  ///e  OCTAVE.  St.  JOACHIM,  c. 
INTRO  IT.     Ps.  cxi. 

HE  distributed,  he  T^lspersit,  dedit  pan- 
gave  to  the  poor:  JiJ  peri  bus  :  justitia 
his  righteousness  abideth  ejus  manet  in  saculum 
for  ever  and  ever;  his  saeculi :  cornu'  ejus  exal- 
power  shall  be  exalted  in  tabitur  in  gloria, 
glory.  Ps.  Blessed  is  the  Ps  Beatus  virquitu- 
man  that  fears  the  Lord:  met  Dominum  :  in 
iiV  ton  commandments  he  mandatis  ejus  cupit  in- 
takes great  delight.  mis. 

lory.  T.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Dais,  yiti. — ()  God,  who,  amongst 
all  thy  saints,  didst  choose  blessed  Joachim  to  be  the 
father  of  her  uho  bore  thy  Son:  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that  we  may  be  sensible  of  his  protection, 
whose  festival  we  celebrate.  Thro'. 
COLLECT,  &c.  of  the  Sunday,  and  then  of  the  As- 

sumption,  p.  641. 

LESSON,   Ecc/cs.  xxxi.   as  in  p.  488. 

GRAD.     Ps.  cxi.— He  distributed,  he  gave  to  die 

poor :  his  righteousness  abideth  for  ever  and  ever. 

T.  H:s  seed  shall   be  mighty  on  earth :  the  genera* 

tion  of  the  righteous  shall  be  blessed.     Alleluia,  AL 

V.    O  JoiicfrtHi,    sunct<z  conjuv   An7uet  pater 

^'•ginis9  hie  Jkmu/is  confer  saltitis  opart.     F.  O 


644  1 7^  AUGUST. 

joachim,  holy  husband  of  Anne,  father  of  the  holy 
Virgin,  obtain  for  us  in  this  life  what  is  necessary  for 
our  salvation. 

d503p£l,  Matt.  I  as  on  the  8th  of  Dec.  p.  530. 

OFFEHT,     Ps.  viii Thou   hast  crowned  him, 

O  Lord,  with  glory  and  honour,  and  set  him  over 
the  works  of  thy  hands. 

SECRET.  Favourably  receive,  O  most  merciful 
God,  the  sacrifice  offered  to  thy  Majesty  in  honour 
of  the  holy  patriarch  Joachim,  father  of  the  Virgin 
Mary:  that,  by  the  intercession  of  him,  of  his  spouse, 
and  of  their  blessed  daughter,  we  may  obtain  pardon 
of  all  our  sins,  and  eternal  glory.  Thro'. 

COMM.  This  is  the  faithful  and  prudent  servant, 
whom  the  Lord  hath  placed  over  his  family,  to  give 
them  their  measure  of  wheat  in  due  season* 

P.  COMM.  Quasumus.-- -Grant,  we  beseech  tliee, 
O  Almighty  God,  by  the  merits  and  prayers  of  bless- 
ed Joachim,  the  father  of  her  who  bore  thy  beloved 
Son,  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  that  the  sacrament  which 
we  have  received  may  make  us  worthy  of  being  as- 
sisted by  thy  grace  in  this  life,  aud  of  partaking  of 
eternal  glory  in  the  world  to  come.  Thro'. 
The  Gospel  of  the  Sunday  is  read  at  the  end  o/Mass. 

XVI U  OCTAVE  of  St.  LAWRENCE,  m, 
INTROIT.  Ps.  xvi.— Thou  hast  tried  my  heart. 
O  Lord,  and  visited  it  by  night:  thou  hast  tried  me 
by  fire,  and  found  no  iniquity  in  me.  Ps.  Hear,  O 
Lord,  the  justice  of  my  cause,  and  attend  to  my 
prayer.  K  Glory. 

COLLECT.  J&ciftu— Raise  up,  O  Lord,  in  thy 
church,  that  spirit  which  blessed  Lawrence  obeyed  : 
that,  being  tilled  with  the  same;  we  may  zealously 
love  what  he  lovt-d,  and  practice  what  he  taught. 
Thro' — ia  unity  of  the  same. 

COLLECT,  &c.  of  the  Assumption,  p.  641. 
tpiSTLE,  2  Cor.  ix.  as  on  tU  Feast,  p.  683. 


i8/7*  &  2rs£  AUGUST.  645 

GRAD.  Ps.  viii. — Lord,  thou  bast  crowned  him 
with  glory  and  honour.  F.  And  thou  hast  set  him 
over  the  works  of  thy  hands.  Alleluia,  Alleluia, 
V.  Lawrence  the  Deacon,  wrought  a  good  work, 
who  by  the  sign  of  the  cross  gave  sight  to  the  blind. 
Alleluia. 

CiSOSpd,  fohn  xii.  as  on  the  Feast,  p.  638. 

OFFERT.  The  just,  as  in  p.  491. 

SECRET.  We  beseech  thee,  OLord,  that  the 
holy  prayers  and  merits  of  blessed  Lawrence,  may 
render  our  sacrifice  well  pleasing  to  thee,  to  whom 
ive  solemnly  offer  it  in  his  honour.  Thro*. 

PREFACE,  of  the  B.  V.  Mary,  p.  xxxii. 

COMM.  Matt.  xvi. — Let  him  who  would  come 
after  me,  deny  himself,  take  up  his  cross,  and  fol- 
low me. 

P.  COMM.  SuppKces.  —  We  humbly  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
Lawrence,  thy  martyr,  ever  to  keep  under  thy  pro- 
tection  those  who  have  partaken  of  thy  heavenly 
gifts.  Thro*. 

XVIII.    Commem.  o/St.  AGAPETE,  m. 

COLLECT.  Ltctctur. — May  thy  church  rejoice, 
O  God,  under  the  protection  of  B.  Agapete,  thy  m. 
and  by  the  assistance  of  his  prayers  increase  in  devo- 
tion, and  be  secured  against  all  adversities.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  present  we  of- 
fer thee  on  his  feast,  by  whose  intercession  we  hope 
to  be  delivered. 

P.  COMM.  Sfitiasti — Thou  hast  fed  O  Lord, 
thy  family  with  these  sacred  oblations  :  ever,  there- 
lore,  comfort  us  with  his  intercession,  whose  feast  vve 
celebrate.  Thro'. 

XXI.     St.  JANE  FRANCES,  w. 
A/I  as  in  Mass  XX [.  p.  502,  except 
COLLECT.    Omnhotcns. — O  Almighty  and  mer* 


646  ltd  AUGUST. 

ciful  God,  who  hast  granted  blessed  Jane  Frances* 
inflamed  with  the  love  of  thee,  a  wonderful  degree 
of  fortitude  through  all  the  paths  of  life,  and  wast 
pleased,  through  her,  to  adorn  thy  church  with  a 
jnew  offspring :  grant,  by  her  merits  and  prayers, 
that  we  who,  sensible  of  our  weakness,  confide  in 
thy  strength,  may  overcome  all  adversities  with  the 
help  of  thy  heavenly  grace.  Thro', 

Commem.  of  the  Assumption,  p.  641. 

SECRET.  May  these  offerings,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  enkindle  in  us  the  fire  of  thy  love,  which 
burned  so  vehemently  in  the  heart  of  blessed  Fran- 
ces, and  consumed  it  with  the  flames  of  everlasting 
charity.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Spiritum.— -Infuse  into  us,  O  Lord, 
the  spirit  of  thy  love,  that  by  the  prayers  of  blessed 
Jane  Frances,  thou  wouldst  cause  those  whom  thou 
hast  fed  with  the  bread  of  heaven  to  despise  whatever 
is  earthly,  and  follow  thee  with  pure  minds.  Thro'. 

XXII.     OCTAVE  of  the  ASSUMPTION. 

All  as  on  the  Feast,  p.  641,  with  the  following  Com- 
mem. of  SS.  TIMOTHY,  &c.  mm. 

COLLECT.  Auxilium.— Help  us,  O  Lord,  in  thy 
mercy,  and,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  martyrs,  Ti- 
mothy, Hyppolite,  and  Symphorian,  shelter  us  un- 
der the  protection  of  thy  goodness.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings,  O  Lord,  of  thy  de- 
vout people  be  acceptable  to  thee  in  honour  of  thy 
saints,  by  whose  merits  they  have  experienced  help 
in  their  afflictions.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Divini  muneris. — Being  abundantly 
fed  with  thy  divine  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord 
our  God,  that,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  blessed 
martyrs,  we  may  obtain  eternal  life  by  partaking 
Thro', 


230?  &  t^th   AUGUST.  647 

XXIII.  St.  PHILIP  BENITIUS,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIV.  p.  489,  except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  (jui.—  Q  God,  who  in  B.  Phi- 
lip,  thy  c.  hast  left  us  an  example  of  humility :  grant 
that,  in  imitation  of  him,  we  may  despise  the  pros- 
perity  of  this  world,  and  have  our  hearts  always  fix* 
ed  on  the  happiness  of  the  next.  Thro*. 

XXIV,  St.  BARTHOLOMEW,  a  p. 

INTROIT,  Mihi  astern,  as  hi  p.  524. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotent.. — O  Almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  who  comfortest  thy  people  by  the  sacred 
and  venerable  solemnity  of  thy  B.  ap.  Bartholomew : 
grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we  may  love  what  he 
believed,  and  practise  what  he  taught.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cur.  xii.  27,  31.— Brethren;  Yoti 
are  the  body  of  Christ,  and  members  of  a  member. 
And  God  indeed  hath  set  some  in  the  church,  first 
apostles,  secondly  prophets,  thirdly  doctors,  after  that 
miracles,  then  the  graces  of  healings,  helps,  govern- 
ments,  kinds  of  tongues,  interpretations  of  speeches. 
Are  all  apostles  ?  Are  all  prophets  ?  Are  all  doctors  > 
Are  all  zcorkers  of  miracles?  Have  all  the  grace  of 
healing?  Do  all  speak  with  tongues?  Do  all  inter- 
terpret  ?  But  be  ye  zealous  for  the  better  gifts. 

GRAD.  (is  on  fhc  Feast  o/'St.  Andrew,  />.  524. 

Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  glorious  choir  of  apos- 
tles bless  thee,  O  Lord.  Alleluia. 

(1300p£U     Luke  vi.   12,   19 At  that  time-. 

Jesus  went  out  into  a  mountain  to  pray,  and  he  pas- 
sed the  whole  night  in  the  prayer  of  God.  And 
"When  day  was  come,  he  called  upon  his  disciples  : 
and  be  chose  twelve  of  them  (whom  also  he  named 
Apostles):  Simon  whom  he  surnamed  Peter,  and 
Andrew  his  brother,  James  and  John,  Philip  and 
Bartholomew,  Matthew  and  Thomas,  James  ilie  son 
2/-*Alpheus,  and  Simon  who  is  called  Zdolcs,  au*i 


£48  t$th   AUGUST. 

Jude  the  brother  of  James,  and  Judas  Iscariot  whrt 
was  the  traitor.  And  coming  down  with  them,  he 
stood  i«i  a  plain  place,  and  the  company  of  the  dis- 
ci pies,  and  a  very  great  multitude  of  people  from 
all  Judea  and  Jerusalem,  and  the  sea-coast  of  Tyre 
and  Sidon,  who  were  come  to  hear  him,  and  to  be 
healed  of  their  diseases.  And  they  that  were  trou- 
bled with  unclean  sp'rits  were  cured.  And  all  the 
multitude  sought  to  touch  him,  for  virtue  went  out 
from  him,  and  healed  all.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxxxviii.— To  me,  O  God,  thy 
friends  are  exceeding  honourable:  exceeding  mighty 
is  their  power. 

SECRET.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that 
as  we  celebrate  the  festival  of  thy  apostle  Bartholo- 
mew, we  may  be  partakers  of  thy  benefits,  by  his 
intercession,  in  whose  honour  we  offer  thee  this  sa- 
crifice of  praise.  Thro'. 

CO  MM.  Matt.  xix. — You,  who  have  followed 
me,  shall  sit  on  thrones,  judging  the  twelve  tribes  of 
Israel- 

P.  COMM.  Sump  turn.—-  Grant,  O  Lord,  we  be* 
seech  thee,  that  the  pledge  of  our  eternal  redemp* 
tion,  which  we  have  received,  may,  by  the  interces* 
sion  of  thy  apostle  Bartholomew,  procure  for  us  the 
necessary  assistance  for  this  life,  and  for  that  which 
is  to  come.  Thro'. 

XXV.    St.  LEWIS,  King  and  c. 
Alt  as  in  Mass  XML  p  488,  except 
COLLECT.    DC  us,  qui,—Q  God,  who  removedst 
blessed  Lewis  thy  conf.  from  an  earthly  kingdom  to 
the  glory  of  an  heavenly  crown  ;  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  by  his  virtues  and  prayers,  that  we  may  be  re- 
cfived  into  the  company  of  the  King  of  kings,  Jesus 
Christ  thy  only  Son.     Who. 

LESSON,   \Visd.x.  as  in  p.  3.66,  andG&ADi  Ps.  xcu 
as  in  p.  488, 


AUGUST.  f>49k 

Luke  xix.  12,    26.—^  ^//<>/   ^'//?« : 
Jesus  spoke  this  parable  to  his  disciples :  A  certain  no- 
bleman  went  into  a  far  country,  to  receive  for  him- 
self a  kingdom,  and  to  return.     And  calling  his  ten 
servants,  he  delivered  them  ten  pounds,  and  said  to 
them:  Trade  till  I  come.     But  his  citizens  hated 
him:  and  they  sent  an  embassage  after  him,  saying; 
We  will  not  have  this  man  to  reign  over  us.     And 
it  came  to  pass  that  he  returned,  having  received  the 
kingdom:    and  he  commanded  his  servants  to  be 
called,  to  whom   he  had  given  the  money:  that  he 
might  know  how  much  every  man  had  gained  by 
trading.     And  the   first  came,    saying :    Lord,  thy 
pound  hath  gained  ten  pounds.      And  he  said  to  him  ; 
VVrell    done,   good  servant,  because  thou  hast  been 
faithful  in  a  little,  thou  shalt  have  power  over  tea 
cities.     And  the  second  came,  saying:    Lord,  thy 
pound  hath  gained  five  pounds.     And  he  said  to 
him  :  J3e  thou  also  over  five  cities.     And  another 
came,    saying :    Lord,    behold  here  is  thy  pound, 
which  I  have  kept  laid  up  in  a  napkin  :  for  1  feared 
thee,  because  thou  art  an  austere  man  •-  thou  takest 
up  what  thou  didst  not  lay  down,  and  thou  reapest 
that  which  thou  didst  not  sow.     He  saith  to  him: 
Out  of  thy  own  mouth  1  judge  thee,  thou  wicked 
servant.    Thou  knewest  that  I  was  an  austere  man, 
taking  up  what  I  laid   not  down,   and  reaping  that 
which  1  did  not  sow:  and  why  then  didst  thou  not 
give  thy  money  into  the  bank,  that  at  my  coming  f 
might  have  required  it  with  usury  ?    And  he  said  to 
them  that  stood  by  :  Take  the  pound  away  from 
him,  and  give  it  to  him  that  hath  the  ten  pounds, 
And  they  said  to  him  :   Lord,   he  hath  ten  pounds. 
But  I  say  to  you,  that  to  every  one  that  hath  shall  be 
given,  and  he  shall  abound  :  and  from  mm  that  ha' h 
not,  even,  that  which  he  hath  shall  be  taken  from 
him. 

OFFERT.    Ps.  Ixxxviii. — My  truth  and  my  mercy 
3  I 


6$4  i6tk  &  ijth  AUGUST. 

are  with  him,  and  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be 
exalted. 

SECRET,  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  as  thy  Confessor,  blessed  Lewis,  despising 
all  the  delights  of  the  world,  studied  only  to  please 
Christ  his  King  j  so  also  his  prayers  may  render  us 
acceptable  to  thee.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  didst  render 
blessed  Lewis,  thy  confessor,  illustrious  on  earth,  and 
now  glorious  in  heaven:  appoint  him,  we  beseech 
thee,  the  defender  of  thy  church.  Thro1. 

XXVI.     St.  ZEPHYRiNE,  p.  m. 
All  as  in  Mass  II.  p.  464,  except 

COLLECT.    Prasta Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 

O  Almighty  God,  that  as  we  rejoice  in  the  merits  of 
blessed  Zephyrine,  thy  martyr  and  bp,  we  may  re- 
ceive benefits  from  his  example.  Thro*. 

XXVII.     St.  JOSEPH  CALASANCTIUS,  c. 

1NTROIT.  Children,  come  and  hear  me:  I  will 
teach  you  the  fear  of  the  Lord.  Ps.  I  will  bless  the 
Lord  at  all  times:  his  praise  shall  be  for  ever  in  my 
mouth.  F.  Glory. «, 

COLLECT.  Dens,  quL—Q  God,  who,  by  blessed 
Joseph,  didst  provide  for  thy  church  new  helps  by 
the  instruction  of  youth  in  the  spirit  of  understanding 
and  piety :  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  by  his  ex- 
ample and  intercession,  we  may  both  so  act  and 
teach,  as  to  obtain  an  eternal  reward.  Thro'. 

LESSOiN,    Wi*d.  x.  as  in  p.  466. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xxxvi.  as  in  p.  490. 

(B00p?l)  Matt,  as  on  the  2i,th  Sept,  to  *,p.  666. 

OPFERT.  The  Lord  hears  the  prayers  ofthe  poor 
ones ;  he  directs  their  hearts,  and  his  ear  is  bent  on 
them. 

SECRET.    We  lay  oh  thy  altar,  O  Lord,  UK 


2%th    AUGUST.  651 

•fferings  we  have  made  unto  thee,  that  they  may  be- 
come  a  means  of  propitiacion  unto  us,  by  the  inter- 
cession of  him,  whose  patronage  thou  hast  been 
plcHs'-d  to  grant  us.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Suffer  little  ones  to  come  unto  me,  and 
hinder  them  not:  for  to  such  belongs  the  kingdom 
of  heaven. 

P.  COMM.  Sanctificati.-— Being  sanctified,  O 
Lord,  by  this  saving  mystery,  we  beseech  thee,  that, 
by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Joseph,  thy  Confessor, 
we  may  ever  increase  in  piety.  Thro', 

XXVIII.     St.  AUGUST1N,  bp,  c.  D. 

Alt  as  in  Mass  XI I.  p.  485,  except 

COLLECT.  Adesto.—G'we  ear,  O  Lord,  to  our 
prayers,  and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Augustin, 
thy  c.  and  bp.  favourably  bestow  the  effects  of  thy 
accustomed  mercy  on  us,  to  whom  thou  hast  given 
reason  to  trust  in  thy  goodness.  Thro'. 

COLL.  (Of  St.  Hermes.)  Deu*,  qui.— O  God, 
who  gavest  blessed  Hermes,  thy  martyr,  strength  and 
constancy  in  his  sufferings:  grant,  by  his  example, 
that  for  thy  love  we  may  despise  whatever  this  world 
esteems  great,  and  dread  none  of  its  terrors.  Thro', 

GRAD.   to   Alleluia,  as  in  p.   4^6. 

F, I  have  found  David,  my  servant:  I  have  anoint- 
ed him  with  my  holy  oil.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  (Of  St.  Hermes.)  We  offer  thee,  O 
Lord,  the  sacrifice  of  praise  in  commemoration  of 
thy  saints:  grant,  therefore,  we  beseech  thee,  that 
what  hath  procured  glory  for  them  may  avail  to  our 
salvation.  Thro'. 

P,  COMM,  (Of  St.  Hermes.)  Being  fed  with  thy 
heavenly  food,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thy  clemency, 
that  by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Hermes,  thy  martyr, 
we  may  partake  of  the  salutary  effects  of  the  myste. 
lies  which  we  celebrate  with  humility.  Thro', 


t>52  SjtJl  AUGUST. 

XXIX.  DECOLLATION  of  St.  J.  BAPTIST. 

1NTRO1T,  Ps.  cxviii.  as  in  p.  493,  to 

Ps.  h  is  good  to  praise  the  Lord,  and  to  sing  to 
thy  name,  O  thou  the  Most  High!  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Sancti  Joannis. — Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the  venerable  solemnity 
of  blessed  John  the  Baptist,  thy  precursor  and  mar- 
tyr, may  procure  us  the  effects  of  thy  saving  aid. 
Who  livest. 

COLLECT,  $c.  o/*St.  SABINA,  as  in  p.  493. 

LESSON.  Jer.  i.  17,  iy.— In  those  days  :  The 
word  of  the  Lord  came  to  me,  saying ;  Gird  up  thy 
loins,  and  arise,  and  speak  to  them  alt  that  I  com- 
mand thee.  Be  not  afraid  at  their  presence;  for  I 
will  make  thee  not  to  fear  their  countenance*  For 
behold  1  have  made  thee  this  day  a  fortified  city, 
and  a  pillar  of  iron,  and  a  wall  of  brass,  over  all  the 
land,  to  the  kings  of  Juda,  to  the  princes  thereof, 
and  to  the  priests,  and  to  the  people  of  the  land- 
And  they  shall  fight  against  thee,  and  shall  not  pre- 
vail :  and  I  am  with  thee,  saith  the  Lord,  to  deliver 
thee. 

GRAD.  to  Alleluia,  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  486.— 
K  The  righteous  man  shall  bud  forth  like  a  lily: 
and  flourish  for  ever  before  the  Lord.  Alleluia. 

tiE>Q0p?l«.  Mark  vi.  17,  29.—.^  that  time  t 
Herod  sent  and  apprehended  John,  and  bound  him 
in  prison  for  the  sake  of  Herodias  the  wife  of  Philip 
his  brother,  because  he  had  married  her-  And  John 
sttid  to  Herod:  Is  it  lawful  for  thee  to  have  thy 
brother's  wife  ?  Now  Herodias  laid  snares  for  him: 
and  was  desirous  to  put  him  to  death,  and  could  not. 
For  Herod  feared  John,  knowing  him  to  be  a  just 
and  holy  man :  and  kept  him,  and  when  he  heard 
him,  he  did  many  things :  and  he  heard  him  willing- 
ly. And  when  a  convenient  day  was  come,  Herod 
made  a  supper  for  his  birth  day,  for  the  princes,  an4 


2Ztb    AUGUST.  653 

tribunes,  and  chief  men  of  Galilee.  And  when  the 
daughter  of  the  same  Herodias  had  come  in,  and  had 
•danced,  and  had  pleased  Herod,  and  them  that  were 
at  table  with  him,  the  king  said  to  the  damsel :  Ask 
of  me  what  thou  wilt,  nnd  I  will  give  it  thee.  And 
he  swore  to  her ;  Whatsoever  thou  shalt  ask  I  will 
give  thee,  though  it  be  the  half  of  my  kingdom. 
Who  when  she  was  gone  out,  said  to  he:  mother : 
What  shall  I  ask  ?  But  she  said :  the  head  of  John 
the  Baptist.  And  when  she  was  come  in  immedi- 
ately with  haste  to  the  king,  she  asked,  saying:  J 
will  that  forthwith  thou  give  me  in  a  dish  the  head 
of  John  the  Baptist.  And  the  king  was  struck  sad; 
yet  because  of  his  oath,  and  because  of  them  that 
were  with  him  at  table,  he  would  not  displease  her: 
but  sending  an  executioner,  he  commanded  that  his 
head  should  be  brought  in  a  dish.  And  he  beheaded 
him  in  the  prison,  and  brought  his  head  in  a  dish  : 
and  gave  it  to  the  damsel,  and  the  damsel  gave  it  to 
her  mother.  Which  his  disciples  hearing,  came,  and 
took  his  body,  and  laid  it  in  a  tomb. 

OFFEllT.  The  righteous  man,  O  Lord,  shall 
rejoice  in  thy  power:  he  shall  rejoice  exceedingly, 
that  thou  hast  saved  him:  thou  hast  granted  him  his 
soul's  desire. 

SECRET.    Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that 
the  offerings  we  bring  on  this  festival  of  thy  martyr, 
blessed  John  the  Baptist,  may,  by   his  intercession, 
/  procure  for  us  salvation. 

P.  COMM.  Conferat.—  May  the  solemnity  of 
holy  John  the  Baptist  enable  us,  O  Lord,  both  to 
•venerate  what  these  august  mysteries  signify,  and  to 
tind  the  effects  thereof  in  ourselves.  Thro'. 

XXX.     St.  ROSE  of  LIMA. 

XIX.  p.  498,  except 

COLLECT.     Bworiw. — O  Almighty  God,  the 
giver  of  al\  good  gifts,  who  wast  pleased  that  blessecl 
3l  3 


654  *s*  &    *&  SEPTEMBER. 

Rose,  abundantly  favoured  with  the  dew  of  heaven. 
Jy  grace,  should  beautify  the  Indies  with  her  purity 
and  patience:  grant  that  we  thy  servants,  following 
the  perfume  of  her  virtues,  may  become  an  agree* 
able  odour  to  Christ.  Thro'. 

COLLECT,  #c.  o/St.  FELIX.  Majestat&i.—We 
humbly  beseech  thy  Majesty,  O  Lord,  that  as  in  ce- 
lebrating the  festivals  of  the  saints,  thou  fillest  us 
with  new  joys ;  so  thou  wouldst.  vouchsafe  to  pro- 
tect us  by  their  prayers.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  (Ofib.)  Favourably  regard,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  of  thy  people,  and  make  them  sensible 
of  the  salutary  effects  of  what  they  celebrate  with  a 
devout  mind  in  honour  of  thy  saints.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Repleti.  (Of  ik>.. Being  fed,  O 
Lord,  with  thy  heavenly  gifts,  we  beseech  thee,  by 
the  intercession  of  thy  saints,  that  we  may  always 
remain  thankful.  Thro'. 


September  T.     St.  RAYMOND  NONNATUS,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—OGod,  who  didst  make 
blessed  Raymond,  thy  confessor,  wonderfully  emi- 
nent by  redeeming  the  faithful  out  of  captivity: 
grant,  by  his  prayers,  that  being  freed  from  the  bonds 
o£  sin,  we  may  chearfully  perform  what  is  most 
pleasing  to  tkee.  Thro*. 

II.    St.  STEPHEN,  Kingawdc. 
Alias  in  Mass  XII I,  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.     Cottcf^.— Grant  to  thy  church,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  as  blessed  Stephen,  thy  confes- 
sor, white  he  reigned  on 'earth,  enlarged  her  bounds, 
so  being  now  glorious  iu  heaven,  he  may  be  her 
"•r      '    hro\ 

j  Luke  xixt  as  on  the  25 'A  Aug.  p.  649% 


%th    SEPTEMBER.  655 

SECRET.  Favourably  look  down,  O  Almighty 
God,  on  our  offerings,  and  grant,  that  as  we  cele- 
brate the  mysteries  of  our  Lord's  passion,  we  may 
imitate  what  we  perform.  Thro\ 

P.  COMM.  Prasta. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Almighty  God,  that  we  may  with  suitable  devotion 
imitate  the  faith  of  thy  confessor,  blessed  Stephen  : 
who,  by  the  propagation  of  the  same  faith,  merited 
to  pass  from  an  earthly  kingdom  to  the  glory  of  an 
heavenly  one.  Thro'. 

VIII.     NATIVITY  of  the  B.  V.  M.  p.  529. 

Should  the.  'following  festival  (which  occurs  on  the 
SUNDAY  within  the  OCT  A  VE  of  the  preceding) 
fall  on  the  XIV.  it  is  transferred  to  the  next  vacant 
day;  but  if  on  Me  XV.  then  the  ensuing  Mass  is 

«    said  without  any  Commem.  of  the  Octave-day. 

FEAST  of  the  NAME  of  the  B.  V.  MARY. 

1NTROIT,  Vultum  tnum,  as  in  p.  499. 

COLLECT.  Concede.— -Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  thy  faithful,  who  rejoice  un- 
der the  name  and  protection  of  the  most  blessed 
Virgin  Mary,  may,  by  her  pious  intercession,  be  de- 
livered from  all  evils  here  on  earth,  and  be  brought 
to  the  eternal  joys  of  heaven.  Thro'- 

COLLECT,  &c.  of  the  Sunday  after  Pentecost. 

LESSON,  Ecclrs.  xxiv.  23,  31. — As  the  vine  I 
have  brought  forth  a  pleasant  odour:  and  my  flowers 
are  the  fruits  of  honour  and  riches,  I  am  the  mo- 
ther of  fair  love,  and  of  fear,  and  of  knowledge, 
and  of  hope.  In  me  is  all  grace  of  the  way  and  of 
the  truth,  in  me  is  all  hope  of  life  and  of  virtue. 
Come  over  to  me,  all  ye  that  desire  me,  and  be  filled 
with  my  fruits.  For  my  spirit  is  sweet  above  honey, 
and  my  inheritance  above  honey  and  the  honey* 
Comb.  My  memory  is  unto  everlasting  generations* 


6  $6  gth  &   llth  SEPTEMBER. 

They  that  eat  me  shall  yet  hunger  :  and  they  that 
drink  me  shall  yet  thirst.  He  that  hearkeneth  to  me, 
shall  not  be  confounded:  and  they  that  work  by 
me,  shall  not  sin.  They  that  explain  me,  shall  have 
life  everlasting. 

GRAD.  Thou  art  blessed,  and  worthy  of  our 
respects,  O  Mary,  the  Virgin,  who  without  prejudice 
to  thy  virginity,  didst  become  the  Mother  of  the 
Saviour. '  F.  O  Virgin  Mother  of  God!  he  became 
man,  and  was  shut  up  in  thy  womb,  whom  the  whole 
world  cannot  contain.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 

V.  Post  par  turn  Virgo  inviolata  permansisti:  Dei 
genitriy,  intercede  pro  nobis.  V.  After  child-birth 
thou  didst  remain  a  pure  Virgin:  O  Mother  of  God 
intercede  for  us.  Alleluia. 

QbOSpClj  Luke  i.  as  on  the  2^th  March,  p.  564. 
Offertory,  Secret,  Comrn.  and  P.  Comm.  as  in  the 

Votive  Mass,  /;.  507.     At  the  end  o/'Mass  is  read 

the  GOSPEL  of  tlie  Sunday. 

TX.     COMMEM.  of  St.  GORGONIUS,  m. 

COLLECT.  Sanctus. — May  the  intercession,  O 
Lord,  of  blessed  Gorgonius,  thy  martyr,  bring  com- 
fort to  thy  people:  and  fill  them  with  spiritual  joy 
on  ibis  his  sacred  festival.  Thro'. 

SECRET,  May  the  offerings  of  us  thy  servants, 
C  Lord,  be  acceptable  to  thee,  by  the  intercession 
cf  blessed  Gorgonius,  thy  martyr. 

P,  COMM.  FamiUam*--- Grant,  O  God,  that  thy 
servants  may  taste  and  be  fed  with  eternal  joys  :  and 
by  the  example  of  thy  martyr  Gorgonius,  be  conti- 
nually replenished  with  the  good  odour  of  thy  Son 
Christ.  Wrho  liveth, 

XF.     COMMEM.  o/'SS.  PROTUS,  &c.  mm. 
COLLECT.     Beatorum—*- We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  that  the  constancy  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Protu$ 
arid  Hyacinth,  may  be  an  encouragement  to  us  it* 


I4*/«   SEPTEMBER.  657 

tMir  sufferings;  and  that,  by  their  prayers,  we  may 
find  a  continual  protection.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  We  offer  th.ee,  O  Lord,  in  memory 
of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Protus  and  Hyacinth,  the  gifts 
Which  are  due  to  thee:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that 
we  may  thereby  receive  the  assistance  necessary  for 
eternal  life. 

P.  COMM.  Ut  pcrcepta Grant,  we  beseech 

thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  mar- 
tyrs, Protus  and  Hyacinth,  that  thy  holy  mysteries 
Which  we  have  received,  may  purify  us. 

XIV.     EXALTATION  of  the  H.  CROSS. 
JNTROIT,  Nos  autem,  aim  p.  271. 
COLLECT.     Dais,  qui.-.-O  God,  'who  this  day 
fillest  thy  people  with  joy,  by  the  yearly  solemnity 
of  the  Exaltation  of  the  Holy  Cross  :  grant,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  that  as  we  believe  the  sacred  mystery  of 
our  redemption  in  this  mortal  life,  so  we  may  feel 
the  effects  thereof  in  the  life  to  come.    Thro*. 
COLLECT,  Fcwiulis,  &c.  of  the  Nativity,  p.  51.9. 
EPISTLE,  Phil.  ii.  5.  as  on  the  ^d  a/"  May,  p.  577. 
GRAD.  as  on  Maundy-Thursday,  ;;.  272. 
V.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.     Sweet  nails,  sweet  wood, 
that  bore  so  sweet  a  burden ;  thou  alone  wast  worthy 
to  bear  the  King,  the  Lord  of  heaven.     Alleluia. 

d£>Q0pCU     John  xii.   31,   36 At   that   time: 

Jesus  sti  id  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jews:  Now  is  the 
judgment  of  the  world:  now  shall  the  princes  of 
this  world  be  cast  ort,  And  1,  if  1  be  lifted  up  from 
the  earth,  will  draw  all  things  to  myself.  (Now 
this  he  said  signifying  what  death  he  should  die.) 
The  multitude  answered  him:  we  have  heard  out 
of  the  law,  that  Christ  abideth  for  ever;  and  how 
sayestthou:  The  Son  of  ruin  must  be  lifted  up? 
Who  is  this  Son  of  Man?  Jesus  therefore  said  to 
them;  Yet  a  little  while,  the  light  is  among  you. 
Walk,  while  you  have  the  light,  that  the  darkness 


658  l$th    £EPJ£?,1BER. 

overtake  you  not.  And  he  that  walketh  in  darkness 
knoweth  not  whither  he  goeth.  Whilst  you  have 
the  light,  believe  in  the  light,  that  you  may  be  the 
children  of  irght.  O.EDO. 

OFFERT.  Defend,  O  Lord,  thy  people,  by  the 
sign  of  trie  Cross,  from  the  snares  of  their  enemies ; 
that  we  may  do  t  .e  service,  and  our  sacri- 

fice may  be  acceptable.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Being  about  to  be  nourished  by  the  bo* 
dv  and  blood  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  by  whom  the 
standard  of  the  Cross  was  blessed  :  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord  our  God,  that  we  may  eternally  enjoy  the 
salutary  effects  of  that  precious  Crosss,  which  we 
have  the  happiness  to  reverence.  Thro*. 

PREFACE,  Quisalutem,  p.  xxx. 

COMM.  By  the  sign  of  the  Cross,  deliver  us,  O 
God,  from  all  our  enemies. 

P.  COMM.  Assist  us,  O  Lord  our  God,  and  by 
virtue  of  the  Holy  Cross,  defend  those  from  all  dan- 
per  whom  thou  causest,  with  joy,  to  render  it  the 
honour  it  deserves.  Thro*. 

XV.  OCTAVE  of  the  NATIVITY  o/B-  M.  V. 

All  as  on  the  Feast,  p.  529,  with  the  following  Com- 
mem.  o/St.  Nicomedes. 

COLLECT.  Adtsto.—Re  merciful,  O  Lord,  to 
thy  people,  that  being  improved  by  the  singular  vir- 
tues of  blessed  Nicomedes,  thy  martyr,  they  may 
have  the  continual  assistance  of  his  pra)ers,  for  the 
obtaining  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Favourably  receive,  O  Lord,  the  gifts 
\ve  offer,  and  may  the  prayers  of  blessed  Nicomedes, 
thy  martyr,  render  them  agreeable  to  thee.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Purijiccnt. — May  the  mysteries,  which 
we  have  received  purify  us,  O  Lord  ;  and,  "by  the 
intercession  of  blessed  Nicomedes,  thy  martyr,  deli* 
ver  us  from  all  our  sias.  Thro'. 


SEPTEMBER.  6$f 

XVI.    SS.  CORNELIUS  and  CYPRIAN,  mm. 

Alt  as  in  MassVll.  p.  475,  vith  a  Commem.  of 
SS.  Euphemia,  &c.  mm. 

COLLECT.  Prasta. — Grant,  O  Lord,  we  may 
with  joy  receive  the  effects  of  our  prayers,  so  as  hap- 
pily to  imitate  the  holy  martyrs,  Euphemia,  Lucia, 
and  Geminianus,  in  the  constant  profession  of  their 
faith,  whose  sufferings  we  honour  with  a  yearly  de- 
votion. Thro'. 

SECRET.  (Of  the  same.)  Mercifully  look  down, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  on  the  offerings  of  thy  peo. 
pie,  and  grant  that  we  may  enjoy  their  suffrages, 
whose  feast  thou  grantest  us  to  celebrate*  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Kcaudi.  (Of  tin:  same.)  Hear,  O 
Lord,  our  prayers,  and  grant  that  we  may  be  conti- 
nual I  v  defended  by  the  assistance  of  thy  holy  mar* 
tyrs,  Kuphemia,  Lucia,  and  Geminianus»  whose  fes- 
tival we  celebrate.  Thro*. 

XVIL    The  STIGMAS  of  St.  FRANCIS. 

All  its  on  the  4th  October,  p.  669,  c.i\  • 
COLLECT.   Dominc  Jcsu.— O  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
who,  for  the  inflaming  our  cold  and  tepid  souls  with 
the  tire  of  thy  love,  wast  pleased  to  renew  the  sacred 
marks  of  thy  passion  in  the  flesh  of  blessed  Francis: 
mercifully  grant,  thro'  his  virtues   and  prayers,  that 
we  may  always  bear  thy  cross  with  patience,  and 
bring  forth  worthy  fruits  of  penance.     Who  livest. 
(E?Q£»PCI,   Matt,  xxiv   as  in  p.  485. 
P.  COMM.    JJfits,  tjui. — O  God,  who  hast  many 
ways  demonstrated  the  wonderful  mysteries  of  the 
cross  in  blessed  Francis  thy   Confessor:  grant,  we 

•  •h  thee,  that  \vc  may  always  imitate  tlur 
pits  oi  his  devotion,  and  be  fortified  by  continual 
iuviou  on  the  same  cvosa.    Thro*. 


460  !$£/*  &  2C-th  SEPT  EM  HER. 

XVIII.     St.  JOSEPH  a  Cupertino,  c. 

1NTROLT.  Eccles.  xix.-—  The  love  of  God  13 
honourable  %wisdom,  and  they  to  whom  she  shall 
shew  herself  love  her  for  the  sight,  and  the  know- 
ledge of  her  great  works.  Fs.  How  beautiful  are 
thy  tabernacles,  O  Lord  of  Hosts !  My  soul  de* 
sireih  and  fainteth  to  be  in  the  courts  of  the  Lord. 
F.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  gui.  —  O  God,  who  wast 
pleased  to  draw  all  things  to  thy  only- begotten  Son, 
when  raised  on  high  :  mercifully  grant  that,  by  the 
merits  and  example  of  thy  seraphic  Confessor,  Joseph, 
being  raised  above  all  earthly  desires,  we  may  arrive 
at  him.  Who  liveth- 

EPISTLE,    i  Cor.  xiii.  us  in  p.  in. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xx. — Thou  hast  prevented  him,  O 
Lord,  with  thy  sweet  blessings;  thou  hast  set  on  his 
head  a  crown  of  precious  stones.  V.  He  asked  life 
of  thee,  ami  thou  hast  given  him  length  of  days  for 
ever  and  ever.  Allel.  Ailel,  V.  The  eye  of  the 
Lord  looked  kindly  on  him  :  he  lifted  him  from  his 
humble  station,  and  raised  up  his  head.  Alleluia, 

(0G0J>€i,  Jktett.  xxii.  as  in  p.  446. 

OFFEHT.  Ps.  xxxiv. — But  when  they  were  trou- 
fclesome  to  me  I  put  on  sackcloth.  I  humbled  my 
soul  in  fasting :  and  poured  forth  my  prayer  in  my 
bosom. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  in  honour  of  thy 
samis,  a  sacrifice  of  praise,  by  which  we  hope  to  b« 
delivered  trorn  all  present  and  future  evils.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps. — I  am  poor  and  grieved;  thy  salva* 
tion,  (}  God,  hath  .supported  me.  I  will  extol  the  name 
of  God  in  a  canticle:  and  magnify  him  in  praise* 

P.  COMM.  Refcc.ti,   as  in  p.  489. 

XX-  SS.  EUS  TACHIUS  and  Companions,  mm. 
JLll  a*  in  Mass  V1JI.  p.  477,  with  a  Commem  of  St: 
Maithcw  fy  tke  Collect  of  the  Vigil  of  an  Apostlr, 


2Uf  SEPTEMBER.  66f 

^•4.63,  M*dtJiejollQZ0**gGo*pt\  at  the  end  o/Mass. 
(iDOtfpCL  Luke  v.  27,  32.—  At  that  time:  Jesus 
saw  a  publican  named  Levi,  sitting  at  the  receipt  of 
customs,  and  he  said  to  him  :  Follow  me.  And  leav* 
ing  all  things  he  rose  up  and  followed  him.  And 
Levi  made  him  a  great  feast  in  his  own  house:  and 
there  was  a  great  company  of  publicans  and  others, 
that  were  at  table  with  them-  But  the  Pharisees  and  . 
Scribes  murmured,  saying  to  his  disciples:  Why  do 
you  eat  and  drink  with  publicans  and  sinners?  And 
Jesus  answering*  said  to  them:  They  that  are  whole 
need  not  a  physician:  but  they  that  are  sick.  I. 
came  not  to  call  the  just,  but  sinners  to  penance. 

XXI.     St.  MATTHEW,  ap.  and  Evangelist. 

INTROIT,  Osjusti,  as  in  p  4S3. 

COLLECT.    B&tti  ^«/o/i.—  Grant  O  Lord,  we 


may  be  aided  by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Matthew,  the 
Apostle  and  Evangelist:  that  what  we  cannot  ob- 
tain by  our  own  weakness,  may  be  granted  us  by 
his  intercession.  Thro'. 

LESSON,  Ezck.  \.  as  on  St.  Marias  Day,  p.  571. 
OR  AD.  Ps.  xci  —  Blessed  is  the  man  that  feareth 
the  Lord,  he  delighted!  much  in  his  command- 
ments.  V.  His  seed  shall  be  powerful  on  earth  :  the 
geneiatjou  oi'  the  righteous  shall  be  blessed.  Alle- 
luia, Alleluia.  V.  The  glorious  choir  of  'apostles 
Braise  thee,  O  Lord.  Alleluia. 

(l£)00pelf  Matt.  ix.  9,  13,  -—At  that  time: 
Jesus  saw  a  man  sitting  in  the  custom-house,  named 
Matthew;  and  he  said  to  him:  Follow  me.  And 
he  arose  up,  and  followed  him.  And  it  came  to 
pass  as  he  was  sitting  at  meat  in  the  house,  behold 
many  publ'cans  and  sinners  came,  and  sat  down  with 
Jesus  and  his  disciples.  And  the  Pharisees  seeing  it, 
said  to  his  disciples  :  Why  doth  your  master  eat  with 
publicans  and  sinners  ?  But  Jesus  hearing  it,  said* 


661  22<f  SEPTEMBER. 

They  that  are  in  health,  need  not  a  physician,  but 
they  that  are  ill.  Go  then  and  learn  what  this  mean- 
eth  ;  I  will  have  mercy,  and  not  sacrifice.  For  I  am 
not  come  to  call  the  just,  but  sinners.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Thou  didst  set  on  his  head  a  crown  of 
precious  stones :  he  asked  life  of  thee,  and  thou  didst 
grant  it  into  him, 

SECRET.  May  the  offerings  of  thy  Church,  we 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  be  rendered  agreeable  to  thee 
by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Matthew,  thy  Apostle  and 
Evangelist,  by  whose  excellent  preaching  she  is  in- 
structed. Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  xx. — Great  is  his  glory  in  bein^ 
saved  by  thee,  O  Lord:  thou  wilt  crown  him  with 
glory  and  great  honour. 

P.  COMM.  Perceptis. — Having  received  these 
holy  mysteries,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  in- 
tercession of  the  blessed  ap.  &  evang.  Matthew,  that 
what  we  have  celebrated  in  thanksgiving  for  the  glory 
bestowed  on  him,  may  be  a  remedy  to  us.  Thro'. 

XXII.    St.  THOMAS  o/Tilla-Nova,  bp.  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.*  p.  482,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus,  gui.—O  God,  by  wnose  gifts 
the  blessed  Bishop  Thomas  became  eminent  for  his 
charity  towards  the  poor:  we  beseech  thee,  by  his 
intercession,  plentifully  to  pour  forth  the  riches  of 
thy  mercy  on  all  those  who  call  upon  thee.  Thro'. 

COLLECT  of  SS,  Maurice,  &c.  (Annue).— 
Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  the 
festival  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Maurice  and  his  Compa- 
nions, may  bring  joy  to  pur  souls;  that  confiding  in 
their  prayers,  we  may  rejoice  on  their  feast.  Thro*. 

SECRET  of  the  same.  Look  down,  \ve  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  on  the  offerings  we  make  in  memory 
of  thy  holy  martyrs  Maurice  and  his  Companions, 
and  grant  thnt  we  may  be  ever  partakers  of  the  fruit 


&  l6th  SEPTEMBER.  663 

thereof  by  their  intercession,  in  honour  of  whom 
they  are  acceptable  to  thee.    Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  of  the  same.  (Cahstibus.)— Being  re- 
freshed  by  these  heavenly  and  joyful  mysteries,  we 
humbly  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  enjoy 
their  protection,  in  whose  triumphs  we  glory.  Thro\ 

XXIII.    St.  LINUS,  p.  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  K  p.  46  r,  except 
COLLECT,  (Deus,  qui  nos),  with  its  Secret  and 
P.  Comm.  as  in  Mass  11.  p.  464. 

COLLECT  of  St.  Thecla.  (Da  quasumus.)-* 
Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  we 
who  celebrate  the  passion  of  B.  Thecla,  thy  v.  and 
m.  may  find  joy  on  this  yearly  solemnity,  and  be 
improved  by  the  example  of  so  great  a  faith.  Thro*. 
SECRET,  (Receive,)  and  P.  Comm.  (Auxilientur,) 
of  St.  Thecla,  as  in  p.  ^95. 

XXIV.     B.  V.  MARY  of  Mercy. 

All  as  in  the  Votive  Mass,  Salve,  p.  507,  except 

COLLECT.   Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  by  the  most 

glorious  Mother  of  thy  Son,  wast  pleased  to  appoint 

a  new  order  in  thy  Church  for  delivering  the  faithful 

out  of  the  hands  of  infidels,   grant,  we  beseech  thee, 

that  we  also  may  be  delivered  from  the  slavery  of  the 

devil,  by  her  merits  and  prayers  whom  we  devoutly 

honour  in  the  institution  of  so  charitable  a  work. 

Thro1.  

XXVI.    SS.  CYPRIAN  and  JUSTINA,  mm. 

All  as  in  Mass  IX.  ^.479,  except 
COLLECT.  B-jatorum.  —  m-dy  these  thy  holy 
martyrs  Cyprian  and  Justina,  O  Lord,  be  a  contU 
nual  protection  to  us,  for  thou  wilt  never  let  thy 
mercy  be  wanting  to  those,  whom  thou  favourest 
with  such  assistance.  Thro'. 

SECRET,  (We  bring)  and  P.  Comm.  (Presto)  p.  479. 
3K  * 


664  27^  &  28£A  SEPTEMBER, 

XXVII*  SS.  COSMAS  and  DAMIAN,  mm. 
Ail  as  in  Mass  VIII.  p>  477,  except 

COLLECT.  Prasta. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  celehrating  the  festival  of 
thy  Tioly  Martyrs,  Cosmas  and  Damian,  we  may,  by 
their  intercession,  be  delivered  from  all  impending 
evils.  Thro*. 

GRAD.      The  just  cried  out,  &c.  p.  48©,  to 

V.  These  were  truly  brothers,  who  have  triumphed 
over  the  iniquity  of  the  world,  followed  Christ,  and 
are  in  possession  of  the  glorious  kingdom  of  heaven. 
Alleluia. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  v.-..  All  that  love  thy  name  shall 
glory  in  thee,  because  thou,  O  Lord,  wilt  bless  the 
just  man:  thou  hast  covered  us,  O  Lord,  as  it  were, 
•with  the  shield  of  thy  love. 

SEC  RET.  Let  us  not  be  deprived,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  of  the  pious  intercession  of  thy  sainis, 
which  may  render  our  offerings  acceptable  to  thee, 
*nd  obtain  for  us  pardon  of  our  sins.  Thro*. 

COMM  Ps.  Ixxvii.— They  gave  the  bodies  of  thy 
servants,  O  Lord,  to  be  meat  for  the  fowls  of  the 
air;  the  fl<sh  of  thy  saints  to  the  beasts  of  the  field  : 
according  to  the  power  of  thy  arm  protect  the  chiL 
dren  of  those  that  have  been  slain. 

P.  COMM.  Protegat.  —  We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  to  assist  thy  people  by  virtue  of  this  heavenly 
banquet,  and  the  joint  intercession  of  thy  saints. 

XXV1IL     St.  WENCESLAUS,  m. 

All  as  m  Mass  III.  ^.466,  except 

COLLECT.    Deus,   qui.—O  God,    w  10  by  a 

glorious  martyrdom,  was  pleased  to  remove  B.  Wen- 

.ceslaus  from  an  earthly  government  to  the  kingdom 

of  heaven  :  grant,  ihat,  by  his  prayers,  we  may  be 


igth    SEPTEMBER.  665 

preserved  from  all  adversity,  and  at  length  admitted 
to  partake  of  the  same  glory.     Thro'. 
(25Q0p0l)   Matt.  xvi.  as  in  p.  465. 

XXIX.  DEDICATION  of  St.  MICHAEL, 

And  also  for  the  Feast  of' his  Apparition  Sth  Muy. 

INTRO  IT.  Ps.  cii.— Bless  the  Lord,  O  all  ye 
his  angels!  ye  powerful  in  might,  who  execute  his 
orders,  and  hear  his  words.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Ps< 
Ol  my  soul,  bless  thou  the  Lord:  let  all  that  is 
within  me  praise  his  holy  name.  V*  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who,  by  a 
wonderful  order,  hast  regulated  the  employments 
of  angels  and  men:  grant  that  those  who  are  always 
ministering  before  thee  in  heaven,  may  defend  our 
lives  here  on  earth.  Thro*. 

LESSON.  Rev.  i.  i,  5 In  those  days  :  God 

gave  unto  him,  to  make  known  unto  his  servants 
the  things  which  must  shortly  come  to  pass:  and 
signified,  sending  by  his  angel  to  h;s  servant  John, 
who  hath  given  testimony  to  the  word  of  God,  and 
the  testimony  of  Jesus  Christ,  what  things  soever  he 
hath  seen.  Blessed  is  he,  that  rcadeth  and  hcareth 
the  words  of  this  prophecy  :  and  keepeth  these  things 
which  are  written  in  it.  For  the  time  is  at  hand,  John 
to  the  seven  churches  which  are  in  Asia.  Grace  be 
unto  you  and  peace  from  him  that  is,  and  that  was, 
and  that  is  to  come,  and  from  the  seven  spirits  \\  hich 
are  before  his  thione  j  and  from  Jesus  Christ,  who 
is  the  faithful  v,  itness,  the  first  begotten  of  the  dead, 
and  the  prince  of  the  kings  of  the  earth,  who  hafh 
loved  us,  and  hath  washed  us  from  oi:r  sins  in  his 
own  blood. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cii.— Bless  the  Lord,  all  ye  angels: 
ye  powerful  in  might  who  execute  his  orders  V* 
O  my  soul,  bless  the  Lord:  and  all  that  is  within 
ine  praise  his  holy  name.*  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 


666  zgtk  SEPTEMBER. 

V.  Holy  Michael  the  Archangel,  defend  us  in  the 
battle:  that  we  may  not  perish  in  the  dreadful  judg- 
ment. Allel.  Allel.  f  V.  [N.  B.  On  the  viii,  u/'May 
the  Grad.  to*>"s  omitted,  and  after  f  is  added.]  The 
sea  shook,  and  the  earth  trembled,  when  Michael 
the  Archangel  came  down  from  heaven.  Alleluia. 

d500p£U  Matt,  xviii.  i,  10.  —  At  that  time: 
The  disciples  came  to  Jesus  saying:  Who,  thinkest 
thou,  is  the  greatest  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven  ? 
And  Jesus  calling  unto  him  a  little  child,  set  him  in 
the  midst  of  them,  and  said:  Amen  I  say  to  you, 
unless  you  be  converted,  and  become  as  little  chil- 
dren, you  shall  not  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  hea- 
ven. Whosoever  therefore  shall  humble  himself  as 
this  little  child,  he  is  the  greater  in  the  kingdom  of 
heaven.  And  he  that  shall  receive  one  little  child  ia 
my  name,  receiveth  me,*  But  he  that  shall  scan. 
clalize  one  of  these  little  ones  that  believe  in  me,  it 
were  better  for  him  that  a  mill-stone  should  be  hang- 
ed about  his  neck,  and  that  he  should  be  drowned 
in  the  depth  of  the  sea,  Wo  to  the  world  because 
of  scandals.  For  it  must  needs  be  thatscandalscome: 
but  nevertheless  wo  to  that  man  by  whom  the  scan- 
dal cometh.  And  if  thy  hand  or  thy  foot  scanda- 
lize thee,  cut  it  off,  and  cast  it  from  thee.  It  is 
better  for  thee  to  go  into  life  maimed  or  lame, 
than  having  two  hands  or  two  feet,  to  be  cast  into 
everlasting  fire.  And  if  thy  eye  scandalize  thee, 
pluck  it  out,  and  cast  it  from  thee.  It  is  better  for 
thee  having  one  eye  to  enter  into  life,  than  having 
two  eyes  to  be  cast  into  hell  fire.  See  that  you  des- 
pise not  one  of  these  little  ones ;  for  I  say  to  you, 
that  their  angels  in  heaven  always  see  the  face  of  my 
Father  who  is  in  heaven. 

OFFERT.  Rev.  viiU~An  angel  stood  on  the  altar 
of  the  temple,  having  in  his  hand  a  golden  censer  j 
and  ranch  incense  was  given,  him*  and  the  smoke 


30th  SEPTEMBER  &  ISt  OCTOBER*  667 

of  the  incense  ascended  in  the  sight  of  God.  Allel. 
Alleluia. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  this  sacrifice 
of  praise,  that  by  the  intercession  of  thy  angels,  thou 
wouldst  mercifully  receive  the  same,  and  grant  that 
it  may  avail  us  unto  salvation.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Dan.  iii.— Bless  the  Lord,  all  ye  angels 
of  the  Lord  :  sing  an  hymn  to  him,  and  extol  him 
forever.  Alleluia. 

P.  COMM.  Beati.—\Ve  humbly  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  that  being  assisted  by  the  intercession  of 
B.  Michael,  thy  archangel,  we  may  receive  in  spirit, 
what  we  have  received  with  our  mouths.  Thro*. 

XXX.  St.  JEROM,  pr.  c.  and  D. 

ALL  as  in  Mass  XII.  p.  485,  except 
COLLECT.  Deus>  qui. — O  God,  who,  to  ex* 
pound  the  holy  scriptures,  wast  pleased  to  provide 
tor  thy  holy  church  that  great  doctor,  the  blessed 
Jerom :  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  by  his  merits 
and  thy  grace,  we  may  live  according  to  what  he 
taught  us  by  word  and  example.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Grant  us  grace,  O  Almighty  God,  by 
virtue  of  these  heavenly  gifts,  to  serve  thee  with  per- 
fect liberty  of  mind,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
Jerom,  thy  Confessor,  that  the  gifts  we  now  offer 
may  heal  us  and  procure  us  glory.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Repleti.  •—  Being  filled  with  this 
heavenly  too  1,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  to  grant 
us,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Jerom,  thy  Con. 
fessor,  the  grace  of  thy  mercy. 

I.  Sunday  of  October. 

FEAST  of  the  ROSARY  of  the  B.  V.  MARY. 
All  an  in  the  Votive  Mass,  Salve,  p.  507,  except 

COLLECT,  Deus  cujus. — O  God,  whose  only 
Son,  by  his  life,  death,  and  resurrection,  hath  ob- 


668  It?  OCTOBER. 

tained  for  us  the  rewards  of  eternal  salvation  i  grant, 
we  besee.ch  thee,  that  meditating  on  these  mysteries 
in  the  most  holy  Rosary  of  the  B.  V.  M.  we  may  imi- 
:^.at  they  contain,  and  come  to  the  happiness 
which  they  promise.  Thro*. 
Here,  AS  ice  1 1  as  at  the  Secret  and  P«  Comm.  ii 

a  Comrnem.  of  the  Si:  Penteco*:. 

Gospel  n(  tke  end  of  the  Mass. 

II.  FEAST  vfthc -ANGELS  GUARDIANS?" 
IN  FROIT,  PJ.  cii.  as  on  Michaelmas  Dav,  :>  66;. 
COLLECT.     7)<-u.<,  fw/— O  God,  who,  "in  thy 
wonderful  providence,  hatli  been  pleased  to  appoint 
thy  holy  angels  for  our  guardians:    mercifully  hear 
our  prayers,  and  grant  we  may  rest   secure   under 
their  protection,  and  enjoy  their  fellowship  in  hea- 
ven for  ever.     Thro'. 

LESSON  E  /.  xxiii.  20,  23.  -  Thus  sait/i  the 
Lord  Cod:  B-hold  I. will  send  my  angel,  who  shall 
go  before  thee,  and  keep  thee  in  thy  journey,  and 
bring  thee  into  the  place  that  I  have  prepared. 
Take  notice  of  him,  and  hear  his  voice,  and  do 
not  think  him  one  to  be  contemned  :  for  he  will  not 
e  when  thou  hast  sinned,  and  my  name  is  in 
him.  But  if  thou  wilt  hear  his  voice,  and  do  all 
lhat  I  speak,  I  will  be  an  enemy  to  thy  enemies, 
and  will  ;;tfiict  them  that  arflict  thee.  And  my  angel 
shall  go  before  thee. 

GPvAD.  P^  xc.  cii.-.-  God  hath  given  his  angels 

charge  r\er  -hee,  to  guard  thee  in  all  thy  ways.     V. 

In  their  hands  they  shall  bear  thee  up,  lest  thou  hurt 

.  .>Gt  agains:  Alleluia,  Alleluia.      T.  O 

ord,  :h.u  v.  ait  on  him  and  exe. 

cov  his  will,  pulse  the  Lord.     Alleluia. 

*DpCU   31att.  <.-    n  Michaelmas-day,  p.  666. 

•ie  Lord,  all  ye  his  angels  :  you 

.crs,  and  execute 


4lh  OCTOBER. 

1.     Favourably  receive,  O  Lord,  ihe  gifts 
which   we  offer  thee   in  honour  of  thy  holy  angels: 
and  mercifully  grant  that,   by  their  continual  protec- 
tion, we  ma,  be  delivered  irom  present  dangers,  and 
n  eternal  life.     Thro'. 

iM.  filers  the  Lord,  all  ye  angels  of  the 
Loid:  sing. a  hymn  to  his  praise,  and  extol  him  lor 
ever.  Alleluia. 

P.  CO  M  M  •  SuHipsimits. — Having  joy fu  1 1  y  receiv- 
ed, O  Lord,  the  divine  mysteries  on  this  festival  of 
thy  holy  angels  :  we  beseech  thee,  that,  by  their  in. 
tercession,  we  may  always  be  delivered  from  the 
snares  of  our  enemies,  and  fortified  against  all  ad- 
versities. Thro'. 

III.  St.THOMAS,  bp.  of  HEREFORD,  c. 

All  XL  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.     JJa/.v,   qui.  —  O  God,    who  hast 
adorned   thy  church  with  the  angelical  purity  and 
•virtues  of  thy  blessed  Bp.  Thomas:  grant  ti. 
thy  servants  may,  by  his  merits  and  prayers,  be  as- 
sociated  vith  the  heavenly  host  of  angels.     Thro.* 

IV     St.  FRANCIS  of  Assisinm,  c. 

1NTR01T.     Gal.  vi.  —  But  God  forbid  that  I 

should  glory,   exfept  in  the  cross  of  our  Lord  Jesus 

whom  the  world  is  crucified  to  me,  and  I 

to  tin-  v  orld.    Ps.  With  my  voice  1  cried  out  to  the 

Lord  .  with  my  voice  I  prayed  *o  ihe  Lord.  F.GIory. 

COLLECT.    Dm  ho  by  the 

exen  |>!ar\  virtues  of  blessed  Francis  didst  enlarge  thy 

'i    by  anew   offspring:  grant  we  may  ' 
him  in  despising  the  things  of  this  world,  and  be 
blessed  m  the  perpetual  enjoyment  of  thy  heavenly 
grace.     Thro1. 

EPISTLE.     Gal.  vi.    14,   18.  —  Brethren  :  God 
forbid  that  I  should  glory,  save  in.  the  cross  of  our 


670  $th  &  6lh  OCTOBER. 

Lord  Jesus  Christ ;  by  whom  the  world  is  crucified  I 
to  me,  and  I  to  the  world.  For  in  Christ  Jesus  neU  I 
ther  circumcision  availeth  any  thing,  nor  uncir-  I 
cumcision,  but  a  new  creature.  And  whosoever  I 
shall  follow  this  rule,  peace  on  them,  and  mercy,  I 
and  "upon  the  Israel  of  God.  From  henceforth  let  I 
no  man  be  troublesome  to  me.  For  I  bear  the  marks  I 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  in  my  body.  The  grace  of  our  I 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  be  with  your  spirit,  brethren.  I 

GRAD.    Ps.  xxxvi,  as  in  p.  486,  to 

V.  Francis,  poor  and  humble,  goeth  rich  into 
heaven,  and  is  honoured  with  celestial  hymns.  Allel. 

(000pd,    Malt,  xi.  as  on  the  1 5^  Jan.  p.  536, 

OFFEitT.  Ps.  Ixxxviii. — My  truth  and  my  mercy 
are  with  him,  and  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be 
exalted. 

SECRET.  Sanctify  the  gifts  dedicated  to  thee,' 
O  Lord,  and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Francis, 
purify  us  from  every  stain  of  sin.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Luke  xii. — This  is  the  faithful  and  pru- 
dent servant,  whom  the  Lord  hath  placed  over  his 
family,  to  give  them  their  measure  of  wheat  in  due 
season. 

P.  COMM.  EcclesUtm.  —  We  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,  that  thy  heavenly  grace  may  increase  thy 
church,  which  thou  hast  vouchsafed  to  enlighten,  by 
the  glorious  merits  and  example  of  blessed  Francis, 
thy  Confessor.  Thro*. 

V.  SS.  PLAClDUScwd  COMPANIONS,  mm. 

All  as  in  Mass  IX.  p.  479,  except  the  Collect,  Secret, 
and  P.  Comm.  which   are   taken  Jrom  Mass  Vili.  j 
pp.47$>  479- §  ; 

VI.  St.  BRUNO,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI LI.  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT,    Sancti  Ur«wo/M*s.— Grant,  O  Lord, 


th  OCTOBER.  671 

we  may  be  assisted  by  the  holy  prayers  of  blessed 
Bruno,  thy  Confessor,  that  we  who  have  grievously 
offended  thy  divine  Majesty,  may,  thro*  his  merits 
and  intercession,  obtain  pardon  of  all  our  sins.Thro'. 
P,  COMM.  (Quasumiis,)  p.  494. 

VII.   St.  MARK,  p.c. 

Alias  in  Mass  XI.  /;.  4^4,  except 

COLLECT.  Exaudi. — Hear,  O  Lord,  our  pray, 
ers,  and,  by  the  intercession,  of  blessed  Mark,  thy 
Confessor  and  Bishop,  mercifully  grant  us  pardon 
and  peace.  Thro*. 

Q/'SS.  Sergius,  Bacchus,  $c.  (Sanctorum.) — We 
beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  the  eminent  virtues  of 
thy  holy  martyrs,  Sergius,  Bacchus,  Marcell us,  and 
Appuleius,  may  be  a  benefit  to  our  souls,  and  en- 
courage us  to  be  always  fervent  in  thy  love. 

SECRET,  May  the  offerings,  &c.  as  in  /?,  499. 

Q/'SS.  Sergius,  &c.-~ We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  this  host,  which  is  to  be  offered  to  thee,  may 
render  thy  divine  majesty  appeased  by  the  worthy 
intercession  of  thy  saints. 

P.  COMM.  Da,  qu<e$umust — Grant,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  that  thy  faithful  people  may  always 
joyfully  honour  thy  saints,  and  ever  be  protected  by 
their  prayers.  Thro*. 

Of  SS.  Sergius,  &c.  (Sacramentis.) — Strengthen 
us,  O  Lord,  by  the  mysteries  which  we  have  receiv- 
ed, and,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  martyrs, 
Sergius,  Bacchus,  Marcellus,  and  Appuleius,  grant 
us  spiritual  arms,  whereby  we  may  be  defended 
from  all  assaults  of  the  devil. 

VIII.     St.  BRIDGET,  w. 
All  as  in  Mass  XXI.  p.  502,  except 
COLLECT,    O  Lord  our  God,  who  through  ihy 


672  §th    OCTOBER. 

only  begotten  Son  hast  revealed  heavenly  secrets  to 
blessed  Bridget  :  grant,  through  her  pious  interces- 
sion, that  we^thy  servants  may  rejoice  for  ever  in  tl.*-: 
communication  of  thy  everlasting  glory.     Thro'. 
EPISTLE,  i  Tim.  us  on  4th  of  May,  p.  579. 
Matl.xin.  asinp.yji. 


IX.     SS,  DIONYSIUS,  &c»  mm. 

All  as  in  Mass   VIII.  ^477,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.~O  God,  who  didst  this 
day  support  blessed  Dionysius,  thy  martyr~and  bi- 
shop, with  the  gift  of  constancy  in  his  sufferings,  and 
didst  join  to  him  Rusticus  and  Eleutherius  to  spread 
thy  name  among  the  Gentiles;  grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  that,  after  their  example,  we  may  despise  the 
pleasing  things  of  this  world,  and  fear  none  of  its 
terrors.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Acts  xvii.  22.-—  ~In  those  days;  Paul 
standing  in  the  midst  of  Areopagus,  said:  Yemen 
of  Athens,  I  perceive  that  in  all  things  you  are  tbo 
superstitious  For  passing  by  and  seeing  your  idols, 
I  found  an  altar  also  ©n  which  was  written  ;  To  the 
unknown  God.  What  therefore  you  worship  with- 
out  knowing  it,  that  I  preach  to  you.  God  who 
made  the  world  and  all  things  therein,  seeing  He  is 
Lord  of  heaven  and  earth,  dwelleth  not  in  temples 
made  wivh  the  hand,  neither  is  he  served  with  mens 
hands,  as  'hough  he  needed  any  thing,  seeing  it  is  he 
who  givr-ch  to  all  life,  and  breath,  and  all  things  ; 
and  hath  made  of  one,  all  mankind,  to  dwell  upon 
the  whole  face  of  the  earth,  determining  appointed 
times,  and  the  limits  of  their  habitation,  that  they 
should  seek  God,  if  happily  they  may  (eel  after  him 
or  find  him  ;  although  he  is  not  far  from  every  one 
of  us:  for  in  .him  we  live  and  move,  and  be;  as-i 
some  also  of  your  own  poets  said:  For  zee  are  also  j. 
his  offspring.  Being  therefore  the  offspring  of  God, 


llth    OCTOBER.  673 

\v?  must  not  suppose  the  Divinity  to  be  like  unto 
gold,  or  silver,  or  stone,  the  graving  of  ait  and  de- 
vice of  man.  And  God  indeed  having  \vinked  at 
the  times  of  this  ignorance,  now  declareth  to  men, 
that  all  should  every  where  do  penance,  because  he 
hath  appointed  a  day  wherein  he  will  judge  the 
world  in  equity,  by  the  man  whom  he  hath  appoint- 
ed,  giving  faith  to  all,  by  raising  him  up  from  the 
dead.  And  when  they  had  heard  of  the  resurrec- 
tion of  the  dead,  some  indeed  mocked  ;  but  others 
said  ;  We  will  hear  thee  again  concerning  this  mat- 
ter. So  Paul  went  out  from  among  them.  But 
certain  men  adhered  to  him,  and  believed:  among 
whom  was  also  Dionysius  the  Areopagite,  and  a 
woman  named  Damaris,  and  others  with  them. 

d500p0l,  Luke  xii.  as  on  the  26th  June,  p.  603. 

SECRET.  Favourably,  O  Lord,  receive  the 
gifts  which  thy  people  offer  thee  in  honour  of  thy 
saints;  and  by  their  intercession,  we  beseech  thee 
to  sanctify  us  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  St«wpf*s..-.Cjrant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Lord,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  martyrs, 
Dionysius,  Rusticus,  and  Eleutherius,  that  we  may 
advance  more  and  more  in  the  way  ot  our  eternal 
redemption,  by  virtue  of  the  sacraments  which  we 
have  received.  Thro'. 

XI.   St.  FRANCIS  BORGIA,  c. 

All  «.<?  in  Mass  XI II.  p.  488,   except 

COLLECT.  Dotnine,  Jisu. — Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
who  art  both  the  model  and  the  reward  of  true  hu- 
mility, we  beseech  thee,  that  as  by  thy  gr.ice  bles- 
sed Francis  became  a  glorious  follower  of  t  icein  the 
contempt  of  earthly  grandeur;  so  we  als>,  by  the 
like  imitation  of  thee,  may  come  to  the  sa-ne  glory. 
Wno  livest. 


674  nth,  i3#A&  iqth  OCTOBER. 

GRAD,  Ps.  xx.  Lord,  thou  hast  prevented,  p*  4*}?* 
GOSPEL,    Matt.  xix.  fl/^/OFFERT.  Ps.  xx.  ibid. 


XII.  St.  WILFRID,   Archbp.  o/York,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.  Dens,  qui.—Q  God,  by  whose  grace 
the  blessed  Bp.  Wilfrid  became  illustrious  for  the 
splendor  of  his  merits:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that 
we  always  may  be  defended  by  his  patronage,  under 
whose  instructions  we  have  been  taught  to  aspire  af- 
ter heavenly  things.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Purify,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Almighty 
God,  the  souls  of  thy  servants  with  the  light  oif  thy 
holy  Spirit,  that  the  gifts  we  offer  thee  may  become 
acceptable  through  the  intercession  of  blessed  WiU 
frid,  thy  Confessor  and  Bishop.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Redcmptionis.  —  -  Having  feasted  on 
the  food  of  eternal  redemption,  we  humbly  implore 
thy  mercy,  O  Lord,  that  thro1  the  merits  and  inter- 
cession of  blessed  Wilfrid,  thy  confessor,  we  may 
obtain  the  gift  of  eternal  salv?tion.  Thro'» 

XIII.  St.  EDWARD,  King,  c. 
All  as  ift  Mass  XI  II.  p.  488,  except 
COLLECT.      Deus,   qui.—Q  God,    who  hast 
crowned  the  blessed  King  Edward,  thy  Confessor, 
with  a  diadem  of  glory:   grant  that  we  may  honour 
him  in  such  a  manner  on  earth,  as  to  hereafter  reign 
with  him  in  heaven.     Thro'. 

XIV.  St.  CALISTUS,  p.  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  II.  p.  464,  except 
COLLECT.  Dews,  quL—  O  ;God,  who  seest  that 
we  faint  under  our  own  infirmities  ;  mercifully  grant, 
that  the  examples  of  the  saints  may  raise  us  up  to  the 
smcere  love  or  thee.     Thro'. 


I$th  &  i6th  OCTOBER.  675 

Collect  t/St.  EDWAPD,  as  oti  the  i?*//. 

EPISTLE,  licb.  v.  p.  85,  closes  at  these  words  > 
as  Aaron  was. 

GRAD,  Ps.  Ixxxviii.  1  have  found,  as  in  p.  462,  to 

V.  The  Lord  loved  him  and  adorned  him,  and 
cloathed  him  with  a  robe  of  &lory.  Alleluia. 

(iPOSpd,   Matt.  x.  as  in  page  467. 

OFFERT,  Ps.  Ixxxviii.— My  truth  and  my  mercy 
are  with  him :  and  in  my  name  shall  his  power  be 
exalted. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  Lord,  that  this  mystic  ob- 
lation may  avail  both  to  cleanse  us  from  our  sins,  and 
assure  us  of  eternal  salvation.  Thro'. 

SECRET,  We  offer,  (Of  St.  EDWARD),  j?.  489. 

COMM.  Blessed  is  the  servant  whom  the  Lord, 
when  he  comtth,  shall  find  watching.  Amen,  I 
say  to  you,  he  shall  set  him  over  all  he  hath. 

P;  COMM.  Quasuwus*  -  -  Grant,  we  beseech 
thce,  O  Almighty  God,  that  these  sacred  mysteries 
may  purify  us  from  our  sins,  and  obtain  for  us  the 
grace  to  live  well.  Thro'. 

P. COMM.  Of  St.  EDWARD,  ( Refect i \)9  p.  489. 

XV.  St.  TERESA,  v. 
Alias  in  Mass  XIX.  p.  498,  except 

COLLECT.     E.raudi.  —  Hear  us,   O  God,  our 

Saviour,  and  as  we  rejoice  on  the  solemnity  of  bles- 
sed  Teresa,  thy  Virgin,  so  may  our  sou  is  be  im- 
proved by  her  heavenly  instructions,  and  inflamed 
with  the  love  of  thee.  Thro'. 

XVII.  St.  HEDWIGES,  w. 

All  as  in  Mass  XXI.  p-  502,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.  —  O  God,  who  didst 
teach  blessed  Hedwiges  to  fly  from  the  pomps  of 
the  world,  and  with  her  whole  heart  to  embrace  the 


OCTOBER. 

humility  of  the  cross:  grant,  by  her  merits  and  ex- 
ample, that  we  also  may  learn  to  tread  under  our 
feet  the  fading  pleasures  of  this  world,  and  to  over- 
come all  that  standeth  in  the  way  of  our  salvation, 
by  embracing  thy  cross.  Who  livest. 

Collect,  &c.  of&ii  EDWARD,  as  in  p.  674. 

XVIII.    St.  LUKE  the  Evangelist. 

JNTROIT,  Mihi  autem,  as  inp,  524. 
COLL.     luterveniat. — May  the  holy  Evangelist 
Luke,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,    intercede  for  us, 
who  continually  bore  the  mortification  of  the  cross 
in  his  body,   for  the  honour  of  thy  name.     Thro1. 

EPISTLE.  2  Cor.  viii.  16,  24.  —  Brethren-* 
Thanks  be  to  God,  who  hath  given  the  same  care- 
fulness for  you  in  the  heart  of  Titus,  for  indeed  he 
accepted  the  exhortation  :  but  being  more  careful, 
of  his  own  will,  he  went  unto  you.  We  have  sent 
also  with  him  the  brother,  whose  praise  is  in  the 
gospel  through  all  the  churches  ;  and  not  that  only, 
but  he  was  also  ordained  by  the  churches  companion 
of  our  travels,  for  this  grace,  which  is  administered 
to  us  to  the  glory  of  the  Lord,  and  our  determined 
will:  avoiding  this,  lest  any  man  should  blame  us 
in  this  abundance  which  is  administered  bv  us.  For 
we  forecast  what  may  be  good  not  only  before  God, 
but  also  before  men.  And  we  have  sent  with  thern 
our  brothe*  also,  whom  we  have  proved  diligent  in 
many  things  ;  but  now  much  more  diligent,  with 
much  confidence  in  you,  either  for  Titus,  who  is 
my  companion  and  fellow-labourer  towards  you,  or 
our  brethren,  the  apostles  of  the  churches,  the  glory 
of  Christ.  Wherefore  shew  ye  to  them,  in  the 
sight  of  the  churches,  the  evidence  of  your  charity, 
and  of  our  boasting  on  your  behalf. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xviii.  as  on  the  1 1  th  June,  p.  590. 

Luke  x.  as  on  the  25^  April,  p.  571. 


l<)t/l  &    2IS/  OCTOBER.  677 

OFFERT.  P*.  cxxxviii.—To  me,  O  God,  thy 
friends  are  exceeding  honourable :  exceeding  mighty 
is  their  power. 

SECRET.  Give  us  grace,  O  Almighty  God,  by 
virtue  of  these  heavenly  gifts,  to  serve  thee  with  per- 
fect liberty  of  mind,  by  the  intercession  of  blessed 
Luke,  thy  Evangelist;  that  the  gifts  which  We  rib w 
offer,  may  work  in  us  a  cure,  and  procure  us  glory. 
Thro'. 

COM M,  Malt.  xix. — You  who  have  followed  me, 
shall  sit  on  thrones,  judging  the  12  tribes  of  Israel. 

P.  COMM.  Prtcsta. — Grant,  we  beseech  thc<% 
O  Almighty  God,  that  what  we  have  received  irosn 
thy  holy  altar,  may,  by  the  prayers  of  blessed  Luke, 
the  Evangelist,  sanctify  our  souls,  and  preserve  us 
from  all  danger.  Thro'. 

XIX.    St.  PETER  o/'ALCANTARA,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIV.  p.  4^9,   except 

COLLECT.*  Dens,  qui. ...  O  God,  who  wast 
pleased  to  render  blessed  Peter,  thy  Confessor,  emi- 
nent for  his  exemplary  piety  and  wonderful  con- 
templation :  grant,  we  beseecli  thee,  that  being 
duly  mortified  in  our  bodies,  our  souls  may  be  better 
disposed  to  receive  thy  heavenly  graces.  Thro1. 

,  (is  well  as  at  the  Secret  and  P.  Comm.  is  made 

a  Commem.  oj  St.  EDWARD  the  Confessor,  ^.674. 

EPISTLE,  P/iilip.iu.  as  in  p.  $35. 

XXI.  SS.  URSULA  and  her  Companions,   mm. 
All  as  in  Mass  XVI 1 1.  p.  497,  except 

COLLECT.  Da  nobis.—  Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  we  may  celebrate  the  victo- 
ries of  thy  holy  virgins,  SS.  Uisula  and  her  compa- 
nions, with  a  constant  devotion:  and  that,  altho' 
\vecanuotcelebrate  them  as  we  ought,  we  may 


678  22C/   OCTOBER. 

however  aim  at  this  duty  with  all  humility.  Thro'." 
Here,  as  also  at  the  Secret  and  P  Cornm.  is  wade 

a  Comment  of  St.  HILARION,  from  Mass  XV. 

p.  491. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  vii./nwi  Mass  XX.  p.  500.  Se. 
cretawd  P,  Comm.  as  in  Mass  XVlll.  JP.  ^97. 

XXII.     St.  JOHN  CANT1US,  c. 

INTROIT.  Eccles.  xviii.— The  mercy  of  man  is 
towards  his  neighbour:  but  the  mercy  of  God  is 
upon  all  flesh.  'He  that  hath  mercy  teacheth  and 
corr.ecteth,  as  a  shepherd  doth  his  flock.  V.  Blessed 
is  the  man  who  hath  not  walked  in  the  council  of  the 
wicked,  nor  stopped  in  the  way  of  sinners,  nor  sat 
in  the  chair  of  pestilence.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Da  guasumus. — Grant,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that  advancing  in  the  sci- 
ence of  the  saints,  after  the  example  of  blessed  John 
thy  Confessor,  and  shewing  mercy  to  others,  we 
may,  by  his  merits,  obtain  mercy  of  thee.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  James  iii.  12,  17.  —  Speak  ye,  and 
so  do,  as  being  to  be  judged  by  the  law  of  liberty. 
For  judgment  without  mercy  to  him  that  hath  not 
done  mercy.  And  mercy  exalttrth  itself  above  judg- 
ment. What  shall  it  profit,  my  brethren,  if  a  man 
say  he  hath  faith,  and  hath  not  works?  Shall  faith 
be  able  to  save  him  ?  And  if  a  brother  or  sister  be 
naked,  and  want  daily  food  :  and  one  of  you  say  to 
them:  Go  in  peace,  be  you  warmed  and  filled  : 
yet  give  them  not  those  things  that  are  necessary  for 
the  body:  what  shall  it  profit?  So  faith  also,  if  it 
have  not  works,  is  dead  in  itself 

GRAD.  Ps.  cvi.— Let  the  mercies  of  the  Lord 
praise  him,  and  his  wonderful  works  to  the  children 
of  men.  V.  For  he  hath  satisfied  the  empty  soul : 
and  hath  filled  the  hungry  soul  with  good  things, 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  lie  opened  his  hand  to  the 


OCTOBER.  f-79 

needy  one;  and  strelched  forth  both  hands  to  the 
poor.     Alleluia. 

(00#p£l,   Luke  xii.  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488. 

SECRET.  Favourably  receive,  we  beseech 
thee,  O  Lord,  these  offerings  by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  John,  thy  Confessor,  and  grant,  that  loving 
thee  above  all  things,  and  all  mankind  for  thy  sake, 
\\'e  may  please  thee,  both  in  heart  and  action- 
Thro'. 

COMM.  Luke  v\.  —Give  and  there  shall  be 
given  to  you  ;  pood  measure,  pressed  down,  shaken 
together,  and  running  over,  shall  they  give  into 
your  bosom. 

P.  COMM.  Prctiosi.  —  Beins  deliciously  fed,  O 
Lord,  with  thy  precious  body  and  blood,  we  hum- 
bly entreat  thy  mercy,  that  by  the  merits  of  blessed 
John  thy  Confessor,  we  may  so  imitate  his  charity, 
as  to  be  associated  to  him  in  glory.  Thro*. 

XXV.  St.  JOHN  </BEVERLEY,  abp.  of  York. 
All  as  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  qui.—O  God,  who  didst  con- 
secrate  this  day  to  the  honour  of  blessed  John,  thy 
Confessor  and  Bishop,  grant  that  thy  church  may 
truly  rejoice  on  his  festival ;  that,  assisted  by  his  me- 
rits and  example,  we  may  obtain  mercy.  Thro'. 

Of  S  S.  Ch  ryw  nthm,  cV  r .  ( B  eat  o  r  u  m . )  -  -  -  M  ay  1 1 1  e 
prayers,  O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  of  thy  holy 
martyrs,  Chrysanthus  and  Daria,  be  assisting  to  us; 
that  we  may  be  happily  sensible  of  the  effects  of 
their  charity,  whose  memories  we  honour  on  this 
festival.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Mayest  thou  mercifully  receive,  O 
Lord,  this  gift  from  our  hands:  and  thro'  the  pray* 
ers  of  blessed  John,  thy  Contessor  and  Bp.  absolve 
us  from  all  our  sins.  Thro'. 

Of  SS.  Ckrysanthus,   4'C.-— May  the  offerings  of 


680  I'jth    OCTOBER.. 

thy  people,  O  Lord,  be  pleasing  to  thee,  which  are 
solemnly  offered  to  thee  on  the  (east  of  thy  holy 
martyrs  Chrysanthus  and  Daria  Thro*. 

P.  COMM  *  SanctificutL  '—  Being  sanctified  by 
these  sacred  mysteries,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  as  thou  hast  placed  us  under  the  patronage  of 
blessed  John,  thy  Confessor  and  Bp.  we  may  be 
helped  by  his  prayers.  Thro*. 

O/SS.  Chrysanthag,  $c.  (Mystjcis.) Being  re • 

freshed,  O  Lord,  by  the  holy  mysteries,  which  are 
all  our  delight  and  desire;  we  beseech  thee  to  grant 
us,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Chrysan- 
thus and  Daria,  the  spiritual  effect  of  the  mysteries 
\ve  celebrate  in  this  lii'e.  Thro1. 

XXVII.  VIGIL  ofSS.  SIMON  and  JUDE. 
All  as   in  Mass  VII.  p>  475,  except 

COLLECT.  Concede. — Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  as  we  are  preparing  to  cele- 
brate the  glorious  solemnity  of  thy  Aposiles  Simon 
and  Jude;  so  by  their  prayers  to  thy  divine  majesty 
in  our  behalf,  we  may  be  truly  disposed  for  the  re- 
ceiving of  thy  heavenly  blessings.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE,   i  Cor.  iv.  as  in  Mass  XIV.  /;.  490. 

GRAD.  jPs.  Ixxviti.  —  Revenge,  O  Lord,  the 
blood  of  thy  saints,  which  has  been  shed.  V.  *  They 
gave  the  dead  bodies  of  thy  servants  as  a  prey  to  the 
birds  of  the  air,  and  the  flesh  of  thy  saints  to  the 
beaUs  of  the  earth. 

di500p£l,   John  xv.  as  in  Mass  V.  p.  471. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  cxlviii.--The  saints  shall  exult  in 
glory;  they  shall  rejoice  on  their  couches:  the  high 
praises  of  God  shall  be  in  their  mouths.  Alleluia. 

SECRET.  Being  conscious  that  tue  gifts,  which 
we  offer  thee  on  the  vigil  of  thy  holy  apostles  Si  mod 
and  Jude,  are  hindered  from  being  acceptable  to 
thee,  by  our  guilty  conscience;  we  humbly  be. 


2$(h  OClOBfiR.  68l 

seech  tbee,  that  their  merits  may  recommend  them 
to  thee.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Ps.  Ixxviii. ...  They  gave,  &c.  as  above 
from  V.*  in  the  Gradual. 

P.  COMM.  Su?nptis.  —  Grant,  O  Lord,  we  hum- 
bly beseech  thee,  by  the  intercession  of  thy  blessed 
Apostles  Simon  and  Jude,  that  the  sacrament,  which 
we  have  received  in^this  life,  may  procure  for  us  life 
eternal.  Thro', 

XXVIII.     SS   SIMON  and  JUDE,  aps. 

INTROIT,  Mihi  autem,  OK  in  p.  1524. 

COLLECT.  JA/w,  <//</.—•  O  Ciod,  who  by  thy 
"blessed  Apostles,  Simon  and  Jude,  hast  taught  us  to 
know  thee,  grant  we  may  solemnize  their  eternal 
glory  with  true  devotion,  and  by  observing  their 
festival  be  improved  in  the  love  of  thee.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Ephes.  iv.  7,  i3.---Brethren :  To 
every  or.e  of  us  is  given  grace  according  to  the  mea- 
sure of  the  giving  of  Christ.  "Wherefore  he  saith  : 
-rij-vt  nding  on  high  he  led  captrcilti  captive  :  he  gave 
girt*  to  men*  Now  that  he  ascended,  what  is  it,  but 
<e  he  also  descended  first  into  the  lower  parts 
or' the  earth.  He  that  d<-.  cei:ded  is  the  same  also 
that  ascended  above  all  the  heavens,  that  he  might 
fill  all  things.  And  he  gave  some  apostles,  and  some 
prophets,  and  other  some  evangelists,  and  other 
some  pastors  and  doctors.  For  the  perfecting  of  the 
saints,  for  the  work  of  the  ministry,  for  the  edify- 
ing of  the  body  of  Chri>t  :  until  we  all  meet  into 
the  unity  of  faith  and  of  the  knowledge  of  the  Son 
of  God,  unto  a  perfect  man,  unto  the  measure  of  the 
age  of  the  fulness  of  Christ. 

GRAD.   Thou  wilt,  to  the  Alleluia,   as  in  p.  525. 
/  .  Thy  friends,  O  God,  are  exceeding  honour- 
able :  exceeding  mighty  is  iheir  power.     Alleluia. 

Juhn  xv.  17.   25.  —  -^    that   time; 


OCTOBER 

Jesus  said  to  his  disciples:  These  things  I  command 
you,  that  you  love  one  another.  If  the  world  hate 
you,  know  ye  that  it  hath  hated  me  before  you.  If 
you  had  been  of  the  world,  the  world  would  love 
its  own  :  but  because  you  are  not  of  the  world,  but 
1  have  chosen  you  out  of  the  world,  therefore  the 
world  hateth  you.  Remember  my  word  that  I  said 
to  you :  The  servant  is  not  greater  than  his  master* 
If  they  have  persecuted  me,  they  will  also  persecute 
you :  if  they  have  kept  my  word,  they  will  keep 
yours  also.  But  all  these  things  they  will  do  to  you 
for  my  name's  sake:  because  they  know  not  him 
that  sent  me.  If  I  had  not  come,  and  spoken  to 
them,  they  would  not  have  sin  :  but  now  they  have 
no  excuse  for  their  sin.  He  that  hateth  me,  hateth 
iny  Father  also.  If  I  had  not  done  among  them  the 
works  that  no  other  man  hath  done,  the  world 
would  not  have  sin  :  but  now  they  have  both  seen 
and  hated  both  me  and  my  Father.  Bat  that  the 
word  may  be  fulfilled,  which  is  written  in  their  law : 
They  hated  me  without  cause.  CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xviii.  —  Their  sound  hath  gone 
all  over  the  earth  :  and  their  words  to  the  utmost 
bounds  of  the  globe  of  the  earth. 

SECRET.  We,  O  Lord,  honouring  the  im. 
mortal  glory  of  the  blessed  Apostles  Simon  andjude, 
humbly  beseech  ihee,  that  being  puritied  by  these 
sacred  mysteries,  we  may  more  worthily  celebrate 
their  festival,  Thro'. 

COMM.  You,  who  have  followed  me,  shall  sit 
on  thrones,  judging  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel. 

P.  COMM.  Pcreeptis.— Having  received  thy  sa- 
cred mysteries,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
that  by  the  intercession  of  ihy  blessed  Apostles,  Si- 
mon and  Jude,  the  sacrifice  we  offer  on  their  vene- 
rable passion,  may  become  a  remedy  to  us.  Thro*. 


&  31;^  OCTOBER.  683 


XXIX.     VENERABLE  BEDE,  c. 

All  <ts  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  4$$,   except 

COLLECT.  Da  nobis.—O  God,  who  hast  en- 
lightened  thy  church  by  the  learning  of  blessed 
Bede,  thy  Confessor  and  Doctor,  mercifully  grant 
that  \ve  thy  servants  may  be  always  enlightened  by 
his  wisdom,  and  assisted  by  his  merits.  Thro'. 

XXXI.   The  VIGIL  of  ALL  SAINTS. 

INTROIT.  Wisd.  iii.—  The  saints  shall  judge  the 
Gentiles,  and  rule  over  the  nations  $  and  the  Lord, 
their  God  shall  reign  for  ever.  Pa.  xxxii.  Rejoice  ye 
righteous  in  the  Lord  :  it  becometh  the  upright  to 
join  in  his  praise.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Domine.—O  Lord  God,  plentifully 
pour  down  upon  us  thy  grace  ;  that  we  may  one  day 
partake  of  their  bliss,  whose  glorious  solemnity  we 
are  now  preparing  to  celebrate.  Thro'. 

LESSON.  Rev  v.  6,  12  ---  In  those  days:  Be- 
hold  I,  John,  saw  in  the  midst  of  the  throne,  and 
of  the  four  living  creatures,  and  in  the  midst  of  the 
ancients,  a  Lamb  standing  as  it  were  slain,  having 
seven  horns  and  seven  eyes:  which  are  the  seven 
spirits  of  God,  sent  forth  into  all  the  earth.  And  he 
came,  and  to6k  the  book  out  of  the  right  hand  of 
him  that  sat  on  the  throne.  And  when  he  had 
opened  the  book,  the  four  living  creatures  and  the 
four  and  twenty  ancients  fell  down  before  the  Lamb, 
having  every  one  of  them  harp.-,  and  golden  vials  full 
of  odours,  w  hich  are  the  pra)  ers  of  the  saints.  And 
they  sung  a  new  canticle,  saving  ;  Thou  art  worthy, 
O  Lord,  to  take  the  book,  and  to  open  the  seals 
thereof:  because  ihou  wast  slair,,  and  hast  redeemed 
us  to  God,  in  thv  blood,  out  of  every  tribe,  and 
tongue,  and  people,  and  nation.  And  hast  made 
us  to  our  God  a  kingdom  and  priest,  and  we  shall 


684  IS*    NOVEMBER. 

reign  on  the  earth.  And  I  beheld,  and  I  1,  • 
voice  of  many  angels  round  about  the  throne,  and 
the  living  creatures  and  the  ancients:  and  the  num- 
bers of  them  were  thousands  of  thousands,  saying, 
with  a  loud  voice  ;  The  Lamb  that  was  stain  is  wor- 
thy to  receive  power,  and  divinity,  and  wisdom, 
and  strength,  and  honour,  and  glory,  and  benedic- 
tion, tor  ever  and  ever.  Amen. 

GRAD.  P*.  cxlix.  —  The  saints  shall  exult  in 
glory  :  they  shall  rejoice  on  their  coaches.  V.  Sm* 
to  the  Lord  a  new  song;  praise  him  in  the  assembly 
of  the  saints.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Thy  saints,  O 
Lnr.l,  shall  bless  thee  :  they  shall  publish,  the  glory 
of  thy  kingdom.  Alleluia. 

ip?!,    Luke.  vi.   as  in  p.  47  3. 
Ol-'i'Ett  F.    I*  A    cxlviii.-.-The  saints  shall  exult  in 
glory  ;   they  shall  rejoice  on  their  couches:   the  hi^h 
praisr  ;':uill  be  in  their  mouths.     Alleluia. 

SECRET.  We  cover  thy  altar,  O  Lord,  with 
our  offerings  :  grant,  we  b^-e-.'h  thre,  that  they 
may  procure  for  us  eternal  salvation,  by  the  inter* 
cession  of  all  thy  saints,  whose  festival  we  are  pre- 

•     Thro'. 

COMM.    JIV.v/.  in.  -.-The  souls  of  the  just  are  in 
the  1  rands  of  God,  and  the  torments  oi  the  wicked 
;1  not  touch  them:  they  seemed,  in  the  eyes  of 
fools,  to  die,  but  they  are  in  peace. 

P.  COMM.     &n:ramentis.-.-  Having  with  joy  re- 

ved,  O  Lord,    these  sacraments  on   the   vigil  of 

that  festival,  which  we  are  desirous  of  celebrating  : 

grant  that  we  may  be  assisted  by  their  prayers,    i  \ 

whose  memory  these  mysteries  are  offered.   Thro'. 


November  I.    JFeaSit  Of  211 
INTRO1T. 

LET  us  all  rejoice  in     /'^  Audeamns  omnc-s  m 
the  Lord,  and  cele-     VJ  Domino,  diem  io>- 


ISt    NOVEMBER. 

brate  this  festival  in  ho-  turn  celebrantes  sub 
nour  of  all  the  saints,  on  honore  sanctorum  om- 
whose  solemnity  the  an-  nium  :  de  quorum  so- 
gels  rejoice  and  praise  the  lemnitate  gaudent  Ange- 
Son  of  God*  Ps.  Exult,  li,  et  collaudant  Filiuai 
ye  "  righteous,  in  the  Dei. 
Lord:  it  becometh  the  Ps.  Exultate  justi  in 
upright  to  join  in  his  Domino, rectos decet col- 
praise.  J'.  Glory,  laudatio,  K.  Gloria. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotent**-  Almighty  ,?nd  eter- 
nal God,  by  whose  favour  we  honour,  on  one  so- 
lemnity the  merits  ofali  thy  saints:  grant  we  mnv 
obtain  a  plentiful  blessing  of  thy  so  much  desired 
mercy,  since  we  have  so  many  petitioners  in  our 
behalf.  Thro1. 

LRSSON.      Rev.  vii.   2,   12.—  In  those  days:    Be- 

hold  I,  John,  saw  another  angel  ascending  from  the 

rising  of  the  sun,  having  the  sign  of  the  living  God  : 

and  he  cried  with  a  loud  voice  to  the  four  angels,   10 

whom  it   was  given   to   hurt  the  earth  and  th- 

saying:   Hurt   not  the  earth,   nor  the   sea,   nor  the 

trees,  till  we  have  signed  the  servants  of  our  God  in 

their  foreheads.       And  I  heard  the  number  of  them 

that  were  signed,   an  hundred   forty. four  thousand 

were  signed,   of  every  tribe  of  the  children  of  Israel. 

Of  the  tribe  of  Jnda,   were  twelve  thousand  signed: 

Of  the  tribe  ol  Ruben,  if  en  twelve  thousand  signed: 

Of  the  tribe  of  Gad,   were,  twelve  thousand  signed  : 

Of  the  tribfuf  ^ser,  were  twelve  thousand  signed:  Of 

the  tribe  ot  Nephthuh,  pere  twelve  thousand  signed  • 

Of  the  tribe  of  Mauassts,    were   twelve   thousand 

signed:    Ot   the  tribe  ol  Simeon,   urn  'twelve  thou- 

^igned  ;     Of  the  tribe   of  Levi,  were  twelve 

ml   y,gn;-d  :     Of  the    tribe  of   Issachar,   were 

twelve  thousand  signed  :     Of  the  tribe  of  Zebulon, 

iv/flve  thousand   signed:     Of  the   tribe  ofjo- 

v-ph,  . .-  thousand  signed  :      Of  the  tribe  of 

i;in;  were  iwelve  thousand  signed.  Aficr  this  I 

3  M 


6*6  ISt    NOVEMBER. 

saw  a  great  multitude,  which  no  man  could  number, 
of  all  nations  and  tribes,  and  peoples  and  tongues: 
standing  before  the  throne,  and  in  sight  of  the 
Lamb,  cloathed  with  white  robes, and  palms  in  their 
hands:  and  they  cried  with  a  loud  voice,  saying: 
Salvation  to  our  God  who  sitteth  upon  the  throne, 
and  to  the  Lamb*  And  all  the  angels  stood  round 
about  the  throne,  and  the  ancients,  and  the  four 
living  creatures ;  and  they  fell  down  before  the  throne 
upon  their  faces,  and  adored  God,  saying;  Amen. 
Benediction,  and  glory,  and  wisdom,  and  thanks- 
giving, honour,  and  power,  and  strength  to  our 
God  for  ever  and  ever.  Amen. 

GRAD.  Ps.  xiii.  —  Fear  the  Lord  all  ye  his 
saints :  for  nothing  is  wanting  to  those  who  fear  him. 
V.  They,  that  seek,  the  Lord  shall  abound  with  all 
good.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Matt.  xi.  Venite  ad 
me  omnes  qui  laboratis  et  onerati  estis,  et  ego  refi* 
dam  vos.  Alleluia.  V.  Come  to  me  all  ye  that  la- 
bour and  are  heavy  laden,  and  1  will  refresh  you. 
Alleluia. 

CBOSpCU  Matt.  v.  i,  12 At  that  time ; 

Jesus  seeing  the  multitude,  went  up  into  a  moun- 
tain, and  when  he  was  set  down,  his  disciples 
came  unto  him.  And  opening  his  mouth  he 
taught  them,  saying:  Blessed  aiii  the  poor  in  spi- 
rit: for  theirs  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  Blessed 
are  the  meek  ;  for  they  shall  possess  the  land.  Bles- 
sed are  they  that  mourn  :  for  they  shall  be  com- 
forted. Blessed  are  they  that  hunger  and  thirst  after 
justice:  for  they  shall  have  their  fill.  Blessed  are 
the  merciful  :  for  they  shall  obtain  mercy.  Blessed 
are  the  clean  of  heart :  for.  they  shall  see  God. 
Blessed  are  the  peace  makers:  for  they  shall  be  cal- 
led the  children  of  God.  Blessed  are  they  that  suffer 
persecution  for  justice  sake:  for  theirs  is  the  king- 
dom of  heaven.  Blessed  are  ye  when  they  shall  re- 
vile you,  and  persecute  you,  and  speak  all  that  is 


id  NOVEMBER.  6^7 

evil  against  you,  untruly,  for  my  sake;  be  glad  and 
rejoice,  for  your  reward  is  very  great  in  heaven. 
CREDO. 

OFFERT.  Wisd.  iii.— The  souls  of  the  righteous 
are  in  the  hand  of  God,  and  the  torments  of  wicked- 
ness  shall  not  touch  them.  To  the  eyes  of  the  fool- 
ish  they  seemed  to  die;  but  they  are  in  peace.  Aliel. 

SECRET,  We  bring  to  thee,  O  Lord,  the  offer- 
ings  of  our  devotion:  and  may  they  be  acceptable 
to  thee  in  honour  of  thy  saints,  and,  by  thy  mercy, 
available  to  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

COMM.  Matt,  v Blessed  are  the  clean  of 

heart ;  for  they  shall  see  God.  Blessed  are  the 
peace-makers;  for  they  shall  be  called  the  children 
of  God.  Blessed  are  they  that  suffer  persecution,  for 
righteousness  sake:  for  theirs  is  the  kingdom  of 
heaven. 

P.  COMM.  Da,  qutfsumus.  —  Grant,  O  Lord, 
we  beseech  thee,  that  thy  faithful  people  may  al- 
ways joyfully  honour  thy  saints  5  and  ever  be  pro- 
tected by  their  prayers.  Thro'. 

II.  COMMEM.  of  the  FAITHFUL  departed. 
All  as  in  the  Muss  (Requiem)/;.  510.  except  the  Col- 
lect,  Fidelium,  with  its  Secret  and  P.  Comm,  as 
in  the  Common  Mass,  p.  518,   and  what  follows. 

EPISTLE,  i  Cor.  xv.  51,  $7.— -Brethren,  :  Be. 
hold  I  tell  you  a  mystery:  We  shall  indeed  all  rise 
again:  but  we  shall  not  all  be  changed.  In  a  mo- 
ment, in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,  at  the  last  tram* 

pot ;  for  the  trumpet  shall  sound,  and  the  dead  shall 
rise  again  incorruptible ;  and  we  shall  be  changed. 
For  this  corruptible  must  put  on  incorruption  ;  and 
this  mortal  must  put  on  immortality.  And  when 
this  mortal  hath  put  on  immortality,  then  shall  come 
to  pass  the  saying  that  is  written :  Death  is  swallowed 
'up  in  victory.  O  death,  where  is  thy  victory  t  0 
3  M  * 


$d  &4*/z  NOVEMBER. 

death,  where  Is  tin/  sting  ?  Now  the  sting  of  death 
is  sin :  and  the  strength  of  bin  is  the  law.  But  thanks 
be  to  God  who  hath  given  us  the  victory  through 
our  Lord  Jesits  Christ. 

d&OSipCU  John  v,  25,  29.— -4*  that  time  :  Jesus 
said  to  the  multitude  of  the  Jews:  Amen,  amen  I  say 
unto  you,  that  the  hour  cotneth,  and  now  is,  when 
the  dead  shall  hear  the  voice  of  the  Son  of  God,  and 
they  that  hear  shall  live.  For  as  the  Father  hath 
life  in  himself;  so  he  hath  given  to  the  Son  also  to 
have  life  in  himself:  and  he  hath  given  him  power 
to  do  judgment,  because  he  is  the  Son  of  Man. 
Wonder  not  at  this,  for  the  hour  cometh  wherein  all 
that  are  in  the  graves  shall  hear  the  voice  of  the  Son 
of  God.  And  they  that  have  done  good  things,  shall 
come  forth  unto  the  resurrection  of  lite ;  but  they  that 
have  done  evil,  unto  the  resurrection  of  judgment, 

III.     St.  W1NEFRID,  v.  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  XVII.  p.  496,  except 
COLLECT.     Exaudi.— Hear  us.  O  God  our  Savi- 
our ;  and  as  we  rejoice  on  the  festival  of  blessed 
Winefrid,  thy  v.  and  m.  so  we  may  improve  in  the 
love  of  piety  and  devotion.     Thro'. 

SECRET.  Favourably  look  down  on  our  offer- 
ings,  O  Lord,  and  by  the  intercession  of  B.  Winefrid, 
thy  v.  and  m.  loosen  the  chains  of  our  sins.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Placeant.—'Let  the  performance  of 
our  homage  be  pleasing  to  thee,  O  Almighty  God: 
that  the  holy  mysteries  we  have  received  may,  by 
the  intercession  of  blessed  Winefrid,  thy  v.  and  m. 
reconcile  us  to  thy  grace,  and  cause  us  to  rejoice  in 
eternal  happiness.  Thro'. 

IV.   St.  CHARLES  BORROMEUS,  bp.  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.*  p.  482,  except 
COLLECT.     Ecclcsiam.—  - Preserve  thy  Church, 
O  Lord,  under  the  continual  protection  of  blessed 
Charles,  thy  c.  and  bp.  that  as  he  was  eminent  for 


8th  &  9///  NOVEMBER.  6?9 

the  discharge  of  the  pastoral  duty,  so  his  prayers  may 
make  us  zealous  in  the  love  ot'thy  holy  name.  Thro'. 
COLLECT,  (Trasta)  of  St.  Vital  is,  #c.-~ Gran  f, 
\ve  hfsoivh  thee,  O  Lord,  'that  we  who  keep  these, 
lemnity  or  thy  holy  martyrs,  Vitalis  and  Agricolat 


may  be  helped  by  their  prayers.     Thro*. 
SECR.  and  P.  Cotnm.  o/'SS.  Vitaiis,  &c. 


as  in  p.  48 i. 


V!  11.     OCTAVE  »/'  ALL  SAINTS. 

All  as  on  the  F^ast,  />.  68^,  a-eVA  a  Com  mem.  o/V//« 
F  o  u  r  C  r  o  \v  n  o  d  M  a  r  ty  rs . 

COLLECT.  Prtcsta.—* Grant,  'we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  as  we  have  been  informed  of 
the  constancy  of  the  glorious  martyrs  in  the  profes- 
sion of  thy  faith,  ?o  we  may  experience  their  kind- 
ness in  recomrm-nding  us  to  thy  mercy.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  (Of  the  name.)  May  thy  plentiful  bles- 
sing, O  Lord,  descend  upon  our  offerings,  which,  by 
the  intercession  of  thy  maityrs,  may  render  them 
well  pleasing  to  thee,  and  make  them  the  sacrament 
of  our  redemption.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Ccclcstibus.  —  Being  refreshed  with 
these  heavenly  and  joyful  mysteries,  we  humbly  be* 
seech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  enjoy  their  pro  * 
teciion,  in  whose  triumphs  we  glory-  Thro'% 

IX.    DEDICATION  of  our  SAVIOUR'S  CHURCH. 

All  as  in  the  Anniversary  Mass,  p.  504. 
COLLECT,  (Dm*,  qui),  of  St.  Theodore.— O 
God,  who  comfortest  and  protectest  us  by  the  glo- 
rious confession  of  blessed  Theodore,  thy  martyr: 
grant  we  may  be  strengthened  by  his  example,  and 
assisted  by  his  priyt-is.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Oj Hit  ^ainc  — Receive,  O  Lord,  th<» 
prayers,  together  \viih  the  offerings  of  thy  faithful 
people:  ami  grant,  by  the  intercession  of  B.  Theo- 
d-uet  thy  m.  ihat,  by  these  acts  of  piety  and  devo- 
tion, \vt-  may  arrive  ai  the  glory  of  heuvea.  Thro*. 
3M3 


690  lOth  &  llth  NOVEMBER* 

P.  COMM.  Pmsta.  Of  the  s<z  we- .—Grant  us, 
we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  intercession  of  B. 
Theodore,  thy  m.  to  receive  with  a  pure  mind,  what 
we  have  taken  with  our  mouths.  Thro*. 

X.     St.  ANDREW  AVELLINE,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XIII.  p.  488,  except 

COLLECT,  Dens,  quL—O  God,  who  disposedst 
the  heart  of  B-  Andrew,  thy  c.  by  the  arduous  vow 
of  daily  advancing  in  virtue,  to  ascend  by  wonderful 
steps  to  thee;  grant,  by  his  merits  and  intercession, 
that  we  may  so  far  partake  of  the  same  grace,  as  to 
continually  advance  towards  perfection,  and  be  hap- 
pily brought  to  an  eminent  degree  of  glory.  Thro1. 

COLLECT.  OfSS.  Tryphon.  Fac  was.-.- Grant, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we  may  always  fol- 
low the  example  of  thy  holy  martyrs,  Tryphon, 
Respicius,  and  Nympha,  and  by  their  prayers  daily 
experience  their  protection*  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Of  the  same.-.-We  bring  thee,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  of  our  devotion:  and  may  they  be  ac- 
ceptable to  thee  in  honour  of  thy  saints,  and,  by  thy 
mercy,  available  to  our  salvation.  Thro\ 

P.  COMM.  Prasta.  Of  the  same.--.  Grant,  we 
"beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  intercession  of  thy 
holy  martyrs  Tryphon,  Respicius,  and  Nympha,  that 
what  we  have  taken  with  our  mouths,  we  may  re* 
ceive  with  a  pure  soul.  Thro'. 

XI.    St.  MARTIN,  bp.  c. 

All  as  in  MassX.  *  p.  482,  except 

COLLECT.     Deus,  qui O  God,  who  seest 

that  we  rely  not  on  our  own  strength :  mercifully 
grant,  by  the  prayers  of  B.  Martin,  thy  c.  and  bp.  that 
we  may  be  defended  against  all  adversity.     Thro'. 
Comrnem.  o/'St.  Mennas,  by  the  Collect,  Secret  and 
P.  Comm.  of  Mass  III.  p.  466, 


I2(/l    NOVEMBER.  69! 

CHAD.  Behold  a  great  prelate  who  in  his  days 
rtSH  God.  F.  There  «  as  none  found  ,ke  him  m 
keeping  the  law  of  the  Most  High:  A,  lei.  A 
K  The  blessed  man,  holy  Martin,  bp  of  1  curs, 
LI.  whom  the  Angels,  Archangels  Thrones,  Do- 
n,inali.ms,  and  Powers  recewed.  AUdoia. 


OFFERT.  My  truth  and  my  mercy  are  with 
him  •  and  in  my  name  his  power  shall  be  exalted. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  merciful  God,  that  this  sav- 
ing otation  may  free'™  from  all  our  sins,  and  defend 
us  from  all  adversities.  'Ihro. 

COMM.  Blessed  is  the  servant  whom  the  i^orci, 
wheiThe  cometh,  shall  find  watching.  Amen,  I 
say  to  you,  he  shall  set  him  over  all  he  hatn. 

P  COMM.  Pnwffl.—  Grant,  \v^e  beseech  tree, 
O  Lord  our  God,  that  these  sacraments  may  avail  to 
our  salvation,  by  the  intercession  of  those,  on  whose 
feast  we  have  with  solemnity  offered  them.  Thro  . 

XII.    St.  MARTIN,  p.  m. 
All  as  m  Mass  II.  p.  464,  &f*P*  Tf 

EPISTLE,      i  Peter  iv.  i  3.  ---Dear/!/  beloved:   I 
you  partake  of  the  sufferings  of  Christ,  rejoice,  that 
when  his  glory  shall  be  revealed,  you  may  also  be 
glad  with  exceeding  joy.     If  you  be  ^P«>ached  for 
ihe  name  of  Christ,  you  shall  be  happy  ;  tor  that 


692  *3^  &  J4^  NOVEMBER. 

which  is  of  the  honour,  glory,  and  power,  rif  God, 
and  that  which  is  his  spirit,  resteth  upon  you.  Bat 
let  none  of  you  suffer  as  a  murderer,  or  a  thief,  or  a 
railer,  or  a  coveter  of  other  men's  things.  But  if  as 
a  Christian,  let  him  not  be  ashamed  ;  but  let  him 
glorify  God  in  his  name.  For  the  time  is,  that  judg- 
ment should  begin  at  the  house  of  God.  And  if 
first  at  us :  what  shall  be  the  end  of  them  that  be- 
lieve  not  the  gospel  of  God?  And  if  the  just  man 
shall  scarcely  be  saved,  where  shall  the  ungodly  and 
the  sinner  appear?  Wherefore  let  them  also  that 
suffer  according  to  the  will  of  God,  commend  their 
souls  in  good  deeds  to  the  faithful  Creator. 
(!500p0l,  Luke  xiv.  as  in  p.  463. 

XIII.     St.  DIDXCUS,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XIV.  p>  489,  except 
COLLECT.     Omnipotent. — O  almighty  and  eter- 
nal God,  who,  by  a  wonderful  providence,   makest 
choice  of  the  weak  things  of  this  world  to  confound 
the  strong:  mercifully  grant,  that,  being  perfected  in 
all  humility,  we  may  be  raised  by  the  prayers  of  thy 
holy  Confessor,   blessed  Didacus,  to  the  everlasting 
glory  of  heaven.     Thro'. 

XIV.     St.  ERCONWALD,  bp.  of  London,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  XL  p.  484,   except 

COLLECT.  Omnipotcm.-'- Almighty  and  eternal 
God,  who  re;oicest  us  on  this  festival  of  B,  Ercon* 
wald,  thy  c.  and  bp. :  we  humbly  beseech  thy  cle- 
mency, that  whilst  we  devoutly  celebrate  his  solem- 
nity, we  may,  by  his  intercession,  obtain  the  means 
of  arriving  at  eternal  happiness.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Be  favourable,  O  Lord,  to  our  pray- 
ers,  and,  by  the  intercession  of  B.  Erconwald,  thy 
c,  and  bp*  grant,  that  whilst  \ve  venerate  thy  hea- 
venly sacraments,  we  may  be  free  from  sin,  aruj 
cleansed  and  purified  by  thy  grace.  Thro\ 


l6th  &  \-]th  NOVEMBER.  $93 

P.  COMM.  Prarta.-. We  beseech  thee,  O  Lord 
our  God,  that  having  obtained  mercy  by  these  divine 
mysteries,  we  who  have  here  offered  them  may  ad- 
vance to  the  complete  enjoy  merit  of  them  on  high. 

XV.     St.  GERTRUDE,  v. 

Alias  in  Muss  XIX.  p.  498,  except 
COLLECT,  Deus,  qui.—Q  God,  who  didst  pre* 
pare  an  agreeable  abode  for  thyself  in  the  heart  of 
blessed  Gertrude,  the  Virgin,  graciously  cleanse  our 
hr-arts,  we  beseech  thee,  through  her  merits  and  in- 
tercession, from  ali  stains,  and  grant  we  may  enjoy 
the  same  happiness  with  her,  Thro'. 

XVI.     St.  EDMUND,  abp.  of  Canterbury,  c. 
All  as  in  Mass  X.  *  p.  482,  except 

COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui.—Q  God,  who  out  of 
the  abundant  designs  of  thy  goodness  hast  beea 
pleased  to  adorn  the  lite  of  B.  Edmund,  thy  c-  and 
bp.  with  merits,  and  to  cause  thy  church  to  rejoice 
in  his  miracles;  mercifully  grant  that  we  thy  ser- 
vants may  reform  our  lives  after  his  example,  and 
that  under  his  protection  we  may  be  preserved  from 
all  adversity.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  May  the  gifts  we  offer  be  pleasing  to 
thee,  O  Lord,  thro'  the  prayers  of  B.  Edmund,  thy  c. 
and  bp.  and  be  available  to  our  salvation.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Me/lies.— Strengthen,  O  Lord,  our 
sou's  by  the  sacrament  we  have  received:  that  as 
thou  hast  comforted  us  by  the  fresh  miracles  of  B. 
Edmund,  thy  c.  and  bp. ;  so  thou  wouldst  help  us 
by  his  suffrages,  and  enlighten  us  by  his  example* 
Thro', 

XVII.     St.  HUGH,  bp.  of  Lincoln,  c. 

All  an  in  Mass  XI.  p.  484,  except 
COLLECT.     Deus,  quL  -  -  O  Go:i,   who  didst 
eminently  adorn  B.  Hugh,  thy  c,  and  bp.  by  the  ex- 


694  19^  &  20^/t  NOVEMBER- 

cellency  of  his  merits  and  brilliancy  of  his  miracles  • 
grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  the  lustre  of  his  virtues 
may  excite  us  to  an  imitation  of  his  actions.  Thro*. 

SECRET/  May  the  prayers,  O  Lord,  of  B.  Hugh, 
thy  c,  and  bp.  accompany  the  gifts  we  now  offer 
thee;  that,  by  the  aid  of  his  prayers  and  intercession, 
we  may  obtain  both  grace  and  glory.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  May  this  oblation  of  our  service  be 
pleasing  to  thee,  O  Lord,  by  the  intercession  of  B. 
Hugh,  thy  c.  and  bp.  lest  our  guilt  should  exclude  us 
from  the  benefit  of  this  heavenly  sacrament.  Thro*. 

XIX.     St.  ELIZABETH,  w. 

All  as  in  Mass  XXI.  f  •  502,  except 
COLLECT.  Tuorum,— Enlighten  the  hearts  of 
thy  faithful,  O  most  merciful  God,  and  by  the  pray- 
ers of"  blessed  Elizabeth,  grant  we  may  despise  the 
pleasing  ihings  of  this  world,  and  ever  be  refreshed 
with  the  comforts  of  heaven.  Thro'. 

XX.     St.  EDMUND,  King  and  m. 
All  as  in  Mass  III.  p.  466,  except 

COLLECT.  Deus,  ineffabilis..-O  God,  of  un- 
speakable mercy,  who  by  the  death  of  blessed  King 
Edmund  hast  made  him  victorious  over  his  enemies : 
grant,  wre  beseech  thee,  that  wre  thy  family  may, 
through  his  intercession,  be  enabled  to  overcome 
the  old  enemy,  by  suppressing  within  us  every  in- 
citement  to  livil.  Thro\ 

SECRET.  Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  on 
this  sacrifice  of  our  redemption,  and  favourably  re- 
ceive it  in  behalf  of  this  thy  family.  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Sint.-  May  the  offer  of  our  service 
be  acceptable  to  thee,  O  Almighty  God:  that  the 
holy  things  we  have  received  may,  by  the  interces- 
sion of  B.  Edmund,  the  King  and  m.  obtain  for  us 
the  rewards  of  eternal  Hie.  Thro'. 


22C?&  23^  NOVEMBER.  695 

XXI.    PRESENTATION  of  the  B.  V.  MARY. 

./I//  </s  i?i  the  Votive  Mass,  p.  507,  except 

COLLECT.     Deus,   qui O  God,   who  wast 

pleased  that  blessed  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin,  (become  an 
abode  for  the  Holy  Ghost)  should  this  day  be  pre- 
sented to  thee  in  the  temple  :  grant,  by  her  interces- 
sion,  that  we  may  be  presented  before  thy  divine' 
majesty  in  the  temple  of  God.     Thro'. 

XXIf.     St.  CECILY,  v.  m. 

All  as  in  Mass  XVI.  p.  493,  except 
COLLECT.  Deusy  qui.—O  God,  who  grantest 
us  the  yearly  comfort  of  celebrating  the  feast  of  B. 
Cecily,  thy  v.  and  m.  grant  that  as  we  honour  her 
in  glory,  we  may  follow  her  example  in  the  practice 
of  a  virtuous  life.  Thro'. 

LESSON,  Eccles.  li.  as  in  p.  496. 
GRAD.  Hear,  O  daughter,  and  be  attentive; 
the  king  is  taken  with  thy  beauty.  V.  In  thy  come- 
liness and  beauty  go  on  prosperously,  proceed  and 
reign.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  The  five  wise  virgins 
took  oil  in  their  vessels  with  their  lamps:  and  at 
midnight  there  was  aery;  Behold  the  Bridegroom 
comes  ;  eo  forth  and  meet  Christ  the  Lord.  Allel.  ' 
SECRET.  May  this  sacrifice  of  propitiation  and 
praise,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lor!,  by  the  interces- 
sion of  B.  Cecily,  thy  v.  and  m».  ever  make  us  wor- 
thy of  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.     Satiusti—  Having  fed,  O  Lord,   thy 
family  with  these  sacred  oblations:  ever  therefore 
comfort  us  with  her  intercession,  whose  feast  < 
lebrate.    Thro'. 

XXIII.     St.  CLEMENT,  p.  m. 
INTRO1T.     P*,  Ui.—My  words,  saith  the  Lord, 
v.  Inch  I  have  put  in  thy  moutb,  shall  not  depart  from 


696  23^    NOVEMBER* 

thence;  and  thy  offerings  shall  be  pleasing  on  my 
altar.  Ps.  cxi.  Blessed  is  the  man  that  feareth  the 
Lord  :  in  his%  commandments  he  taketh  great  de- 
light.  1T.  Gfory. 

COLLECT,  Deus,  qid  nos,  as  in  p.  464. 

O/'St.  FELICITAS.    Prtesta. — Grant,  we  beseech  ' 
thee,  C)  Almighty  God,  that  by  celebrating  the  feast 
of  B.  Ftlicitas,  thy  m.  we  may  be  protected  by  her 
merits  and  prayers.     Thro'. 
.  EPISTLE,  Phil.  iii.  as  in  p.  455. 

GRAB.  P.s.  cix. — The  Lord  hath  sworn,  and  he 
will  not  repent  it:  thou  art  a  priest  for  ever,  ac- 
cording to  the  order  of  Melchisedech.  V.  The  Lord 
said  to  my  Lord  :  Sit  thou  at  my  right  hand.  Alle- 
hiia,  Alleluia.  V*  This  is  the  priest,  whom  the 
Lord  hath  crowned.  Alleluia. 

(150$ pCl>  Matt',  xxiv.  OFFERT.  and  Comnr  as  < 
in  p.  48  s- 

SECRET.  Sanctify,  O  Lord,  the  offerings  we  { 
bring  to  thee,  and  by  the  intercession  of  blessed  Cle-  i 
in.-;)!,  thy  many r  and  bishop,  cleanse  us  from  the  j 
stains  of  our  sins.  Thro\ 

Of  St.  FJELICITAS  —Mercifully  look  down,  O 
Lord,  on  the  vows  of  thy  people:  and  grant  we  may 
enjoy  her  patronage,  whose  festival  we  celebrate. 
Thro/ 

P.  COMM.  Corporis.— .Being  nourished  by  the 
participation  of  thy  sacred  body  and  precious  blood, 
we  besecc1  the*;,  O  Lord  our  God,  that  what  we 
perform  vith  pious  devotion,  may,  by  the  interces- 
sion, of  blessed  Clement,  thy  martyr  and  bp,  be  to  us 
a  certain  means  of  salvation.  Thro'. 

O/'St.  FELICJTAS.  Supplices — We  humbly  be- 
seech thee,  O  Almighty  God,  that,  by  the  interces- 
sion of  thy  saint*,  thou  wouldst  increase  in  us  thy 
gifts,  and  regulate  our  lives.  Thro1. 


&  2^lh  NOVEMBER.  69! 

XXIV.     St.  JOHN  of  the  CROSS,  c. 

All  as  in  Muss  XIII.  p.  488,   except 

COLLECT.  JJeus,  y^'.— O  God,  who  didst  in- 
spire  B  John,  thy  c.  with  an  ardent  love  of  self- 
deninl  and  of  the  cross  ;  grant,  we  may  so  follow  hii 
example,  as  to  obtain  eternal  glory.  Thro'. 

Of  St.  CHRYSOGONUS.  Adetlo. — Give  ear,  O 
God,  to  our  prayers,  that  we,  who  in  all  humility 
acknowledge  the  guilt  of  our  offences,  may,  by  the 
prayers  of  blessed  Chrysogonus,  thy  martyr,  be  deli- 
vered from  the  burden  ol  our  sins.  Thro1. 

SECRET  of  the  same.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  by  the  offerings  we  have  made  ;  and 
•defend  us  from  all  dangers  by  the  intercession  of 
-blessed  Chrysogonus,  thy  martyr  Thro*. 

P.  COMM.  Tui,  Z)taiftt..«.Gf$nt,  O  Lord,  that 
T>y  the  \ participation  of  thy  sacrament,  we  may  be 
cleansed  from  our  secret  sins,  and  freed  fro  n  the 
snares  of  our  enemies*  Thro*, 

Of  St.  CHRYSOGONUS.  Tuit  Dominc. — May  we, 
O  Lord,  by  the  participation  of  this  thy  sacrament, 
be  both  cleansed  from  our  sins,  and  delivered  from 
all  the  snares  of  our  enemies.  Thro'. 


XXV.    St.  CATHARINE,  v.  m. 
All  05  in  Mass  XVI.  p.  493,  except 
COLLECT.  Dcus,  qui—O  God,  who  garest  the 
law  to  Moses  on  Mount  Sinai,  and  didst  wonderful- 
ly translate  the  body  of  blessed  Catharine,  thy   v. 
and   m.  thither,  by  the  ministry   of  holy   ar.gels: 
mercifully   grant,  by   her  merits  and   prayer*,  that 
we  may  safely  come  to  the  mount  which  is  Cli;i»t.' 
Who  liveth. 


£;$  *6  th  &  2 7*&  NOVEMBER. 

XXVI.      St.  FELIX  VALOIS,  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  XIV.  p.  489,  ercepf 
<  )LLECT.%  Deus,  qui.  -O  God,  who  by  thy 
heavenly  inspiration  didst  call  blessed  Felix  thy  conf. 
out  of  the  desert  to  exercise  his  charity  in  the  redemp- 
tion of  captives:  grant,  that  having  obtained  thy 
grace  by  his  intercession,  we  may  be  freed  from  the 
captivity  of  sin,  and  brought  safe  to  our  heavenly 
country.  Thro'. 

COLLECT  of  St.  PETER,  Infirmitatem,  with  its  Se^ 
cret  and  P.  Comm.  as  in  Mass  I.  p.  462. 

XXVII.     St.  GREGORY  Thaumaturgus,  bp.  c. 

All  as  in  Mass  X.  *  p.  482,  except 
d50£pCl+  Mark\\.  22. — At  that  time  :  Jesus 
answering  said  to  his  disciples:  Have  the  faith  of 
God.  Amen  I  say  to  you,  that  whosoever  shall  say 
to  this  mountain :  Be  thou  removed,  and  be  thoti 
cast  into  the  sea,  and  shall  not  stagger  in  his  heartf 
but  believe,  that  whatsoever  he  saith  shall  be  done, 
it  shall  be  done  unto  him.  Therefore  L  say  to  you, 
all  things,  whatsoever  you  ask  when  you  pray,  be- 
lieve that  you  shall  receive,  and  they  shall  come  un» 
to  yout 

Omitted  in  its  proper  Place,  i  ^th  JANUARY. 
(Xtave-Day  of  the  EPIPHANY. 
All  as  on  the  Feast,  p.  89,  except 
COLLECT.     Deus,  cujus.--O  God,  whose  only 
begotten  Son  appeared  irf  the  substance  of  our  flesh; 
grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  we  may  be  interiorly 
reformed  by  him,  whom  we  confess  to  have  out- 
wardly taken  our  flesh  on  himself!    Thro*. 

(£>0$pCl+     John  i.  29,  34  ...  Jf  that  time  :  John 
a^w  Jesus  coming  to  him*  and  he  saith ;  Behold  the 


VOTIVE  MASS  OF  THE  BLESSED  TRINITY.      6?9 

Lamb  of  God,  behold  he  who  taketh  away  the  sins 
of  the  world.  This  is  he  of  whom  1  said  :  after  me 
cometh  a  man  who  is  preferred  before  me:  because 
he  was  before  me.  And  I  knew  him  not,  but  that 
lie  may  be  made  manifest  in  Israel,  therefore  arn  I 
come  baptizing  with  water.  And  John  gave  testi. 
mony,  saying  :  1  saw  the  Spirit  coming  down  as  a 
dove  from  heaven,  and  he  remained  upon  him.  And 
1  knew  knew  him  not:  but  he  who  sent  me  to  bap- 
tize  with  water,  said  tome:  He,  upon  whom  thou 
shalt  see  the  Spirit  descending  and  remaining  on 
him,  he  it  is  that  baptizeth  with  the  Holy  Ghost. 
And  I  saw  and  1  gave  testimony  that  this  is  the  Son 
of  God. 

SECRET.  We  offer  sacrifice  to  thee,  O  Lord, 
in  remembrance  of  the  manifestation  of  thy  Son : 
humbly  beseeching  thee,  that  as  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  author  of  what  we  offer,  so  he  may 
fully  receive  the  same.  Who  liveth. 

P.  COMM.  Cteksti  lumine.— May  thy  heavenly 
light,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  go  before  us  at  all 
times,  and  in  all  places;  that  we  may  contemplate 
with  a  clear  sight,  and  receive  with  due  affection  the 
mystery  whereof  thou  hast  been,  pleased  we  should 
partake.  Thro'. 

N.  B.  After  the  Octave  of  the  Epiphany  till  Can. 
dlemas,  the  II.  Collect  is  Deus  qui,  and  the  III.  Eccl. 
Itttf1,  or  Deus  omnium,  with  their  respective  Secrets 
find  P.  Comms.  in  L  heir  proper  places,  as  on  the  first 
Sunday  of  Advent,  p.  50. 

VOTIVE  MASS  of  the  BLESSED  TRINITY. 

All  as  on  Trinity  Sunday,  p.  392,  except 

EPISTLE.     3  Cor.  xiii.  u.— Brethren  :   Rejoice, 

be  perfect,  lake  exhortation,  be  of  one  mind,  have 

peace :  and  the  God  of  peace  and  love  be  with 

you.    The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  the 


700  VOTIVE  MASS  OF  THE   HOLY  GHOST. 

communication  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  be  with  you  all. 
-Amen. 

After  $eptuag%UMtai4  of  the  Alleluia  andV.  p.  393* 
is  said 

TRACT.  Te  Dezunpatrtm  intfenitum,  te,  Filiurn 
unigentium,  tc  Spiritum  Sanctum  ParacFituntt  sanc- 
tum ct  individual  TritutiUcm,  tot.a  corde  confitcmitr 
laudamus  atquc  bcncdicimus.  V.  Quoniam  rnagnus  es 
tu,  et  j'cciens  mirabilia,  In  cs  Deus  so/ws.  V.  Tibi 
lau>\  ttbi  gratiarum  actio,  in  saculu  scmpiternu  0  bcata 
Trinltas. 

In  Paschal  Time,  instead  of  the  Gradual,  is,  said, 
Alleluia,  Alleluia.  V.  Benedictlui  es  Domine  Deus 
pat  rum  nostrorum  et  landabilis  in  sacula*  Alleluia. 
V.  Benedif:amuf  Patrem  et  JFilium  cum  Sctncto  Spiritu, 
Alleluia. 


J0hn  xv  26.—  At  that  time:  Jesus 
said  to  his  disciples;  When  the  Paraclete  cometh 
whom  1  will  send  you  from  the  lather,  the  Spirit  of 
Truth  who  proceeaeth  from  the  Father,  he  shall 
give  testimony  of  me:  and  you  shall  give  testimo- 
ny, because  you  are  with  me  from  the  beginning. 
(Chap,  xvi.)  These  things  have  I  spoken  to  you, 
that  you  may  not  l)e  scandalized.  They  will  put 
you  out  of  the  synagogues:  yea,  the  hour  cometh,- 
that  whosoever  killetn  you,  will  think  he  doth  a 
service  to  God.  And  these  things  will  they  do  to 
you,  because  the>  have  not  known  the  Father,  nor 
me.  But  these  things  I  have  told  yon,  that  when  the 
hour  of  them  shall  come,  you  may  remember  that 
I  told  you. 

VOTIVE  MASStf'^lIOLY  GHOST. 
Omitting  the   Prose  and  Preface,   the  rest  is  as  on 

Whitsunday,  p.  375,  except 
LESSON,  -L'irfsviii.  14,  17.  as  in  p.  381. 
CHAD.    Blessed  is  the  nation,  who  have  the 


VOTIVE  MASS  OF  THE  HOLY  GHOST.          701 

Lord  for  their  God ;  the  people  which  the  Lord 
hath  chosen  for  his  inheritance.  By  the  word  of  the 
Lord  the  heavens  were  established:  and  all  their 
power  by  the  spirit  of  his  mouth.  Alleluia,  Alleluia. 
V.  Come,  O  Holy  Ghost,  fill  the  hearts  of  thy  faith- 
ful, and  kindle  in  them  the  fire  of  thy  love. 
After  Septuag.  instead  of 'the  foregoing  Alleluia  and 

V.    is  said  the 

TRACT.  Ps.  ciii.— Send  forth  thy  Spirit  and 
they  shall  be  created,  and  thou  wilt  renew  the  face 
of  the  earth.  V.  O  Lord,  how  good  and  sweet  is 
thy  spirit  in  us.  V.  Come,  O  holy  Spirit,  fill  the 
hearts  of  thy  faithful,  and  kindle  in  them  the  fire  of 
thy  love. 

N.  B.  In  Paschal  Time,  instead  of  the  foregoing  Gra- 
dual, &c.  is  said  the  V.  Emitte  spiritum,  />,  376. 
13*  Either  the  Votive  Mass  of  the  Blessed  Trinity, 
or  that  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  is  said  on  any  occasion 
ftf  thanksgiving,  with  tin-  addition  of  ike  following 
Collect,  Secret,  and  Post  communion. 
COLLECT.     Dcus,  cujus — O  God,  whose  mer- 
cies are  without  number,  and  the  treasure  of  whose 
goodness   is  infinite,  we   give  thee  thanks  for  the 
blessings   thou    hast   bestowed    on  us :    always  be. 
seeching  thy   divine  Majesty,  that  as  thou  gran  test 
what  we  ask,  so  thou  wouldst  continue  thy  favours 
to  us  in  such  a  manner,  that  by  them  we  may  be 
prepared  for  receiving  the  rewards  of  eternal  happi- 
ness.   Thro*. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  this  sacrifice  of 
thanksgiving,  and  grant  that  those  whom  thou  hast 
heard,  and  hitherto  preserved,  thou  mayest  hereaf- 
ter defend  from  all  adversity,  that  they  may  serve 
and  love  thee  more  and  more.  Thro'. 

P.    COMM.     Deus,  qui  nemintm. — O  God,  who 
sutlerest  not  those  who  hope  in    thee  to  be  over 
wuch  afflicted,  but  mercifully  attendest  to  their  pe» 
3N  3 


7°*  TE    DEUM. 

titions:  we  give  thee  thanks  for  having  beard  our 
prayers,  humbly  beseeching  thee,  that  by  what  we 
have  received,  we  may  be  delivered  from  all  adver- 
sity. Thro'* 

The  thanksgiving  Hymn,  TE  DEUM,  is  said  or  sung 

after  Mass. 
'T'E  Deum  laudamus :  Te  Dominum  confitemur. 

Te  aeternum  Patrem  omnis  terra  veneratar. 
Tibi  omnes  angeli,  tibi  cceli  et  universae  potestates, 
Tibi  cherubim  et  seraphim,  incessabili  voce  procla- 

mant : 

Sanctus,  Sanctus,  Sanctus,  Dominus  Deus  Sabaoth. 
Pleni  sunt  coeli  et  terra  majestate  gloriae  tuse. 
Te  gloriosus  Apostolorum  chorus; 
Te  prophetarum  laudabilis  numerus; 
Te  martyrum  candidatus,  laudat  exercitus. 
Te  per  orbem  terrarum  sancta  confitetur  ecclesia, 
Patrem  immensie  majestatis; 
Venerandum  tuum  verum,  et  unicum  Filium; 
Sanctum  quoque  Paraclitum  Spiritum. 
Tu  Rex  glorise  Christe : 
Tu  Patris,  Sempiternus  es  Filius. 
Tu  ad  liberandum  suscepturus  hominem,  non  hor- 

ruisti  virginis  uterum: 
Tu  devicto  mortis  aculeo,  aperuisti  credentibus  reg- 

na  ccelorum. 

Tu  ad  dextram  Dei  sedes :  in  gloria  Patris. 
Jiidex  crederis  esse  venturtis; 
Te  ergo,  qua-^umus,  tuis  famulis  subveni,  quos  pre« 

tioso  sanguine  redemistu 
^Eterna  fac  cum  sanctis  tuis  in  gloria  numerari. 
Salvum  fac  populum  tuum,   Domine:  et  benedi^ 

haereditati  tuae. 

Et  rege  eos,  et  extolie  illos  usque  in.  aeternum. 
Per  singulos  dies  benedicimus  te. 
Et  Jaudamus  nomen  tuum  in  saeculura;  et  in  saecu* 

lum  saeculi. 


TE    DEUM.  703 

Dignare,  Domine,  die  isto :  sine  peccato  nos  custo 

dire. 

Miserere  nostri,  Domine:  miserere  nostri. 
Fiat  misericordia  tua,  Domine,  super  nos :  quemad- 

modum  speravimus  in  te. 
V.  Benedicamus  Patrem  et  Filium,  cum  Sancto 

Spiritu. 
jR.  Laudemus  et  superexaHemus  eum  in  saecula. 

The  Prayer,  COLLECT,  Deus  cujus,  as  m  p.  701. 

Paruphrastical  Translation  of  Te  Deum. 

HpHEE  sov'reign  God  our  grateful  accents  praise; 
•*•     We  own  thee  Lord,  and  bless  thy  wond'rous 

ways. 

To  thee,  eternal  Father,  earth's  whole  frame, 
\Vith  loudest  trumpets  sounds  immortal  fame. 
Lord  God  of  Hosts !  to  thee  the  heav'nly  pow'rs, 
With  sounding  anthems  fill  thy  vaulted  tow'rs. 
The  Cherubim  thrice  Holy,  Holy,  Holy,  cry: 
Thrice  holy  all  the  Seraphim  reply, 
And  thrice  returning  echoes,  endless  songs  supply. 
Both  heav'n  and  earth  thy  majesty  display; 
They  owe  their  beauty  to  thy  glorious  ray. 
Thy  praises  fill  the  loud  apostles  choir: 
The  train  of  prophets  in  the  song  conspire. 
Legions  of  martyrs  in  the  chorus  shine, 
And  vocal  blood,  with  vocal  music  join. 
By  these  thy  Church,  inspired  with  heav'nly  art, 
Around  the  world  maintains  a  second  part ; 
And  tunes  her  sweetest  notes,  O  Godl  to  thee, 
The  Father  of  unbounded  Majesty ; 
The  Son,  ador'd  co-partner  ot  thy  seat, 
And  equal  everlasting  Paraclete. 
Thou  king  of  glory,  Christ,  of  the  Most  High, 
Thou  co- eternal  filial  Deity: 
Thou,  who  to  save  the  world's  impending  doom, 
Vouchsaf'dst  to  dwell  within  a  virgift's  womb. 


7C4  MASS  FOR  THE  BRIDEGROOM,  &C. 

Old  tyrant  Death  disarm'd;  before  thee  flew 

The  bolts  of  heav'n,  and  back  the  foldings  drew 

To  give  access,  and  make  the  faithful  way  ; 

From  God's  right  hand  thy  filial  beams  display. 

Thou  art  to  judge  the  living  and  the  dead  : 

Then  spare  those  souls  for  whom  thy  veins  have  bled,. 

O  take  us  up  amongst  the  blest  above, 

To  share  with  them  thy  everlasting  love, 

Preserve,  O  Lord,  thy  people,  and  enhance 

Thy  blessing  on  thine  own  inheritance. 

For  ever  raise  their  hearts,  and  rule  their  ways; 

Kach  day  we  bless  thee,  and  proclaim  thy  praise: 

No  age  shall  fail  to  celebrate  thy  name  j 

Nor  hour  neglect  thy  everlasting  fame. 

Preserve  our  souls,  O  Lord,  this  day  from  ill : 

Have  mercy  on  us,  Lord'   have  mercy  still. 

As  we  have  hop'd,  do  thou  reward  our  pain  : 

We've  hop'd  in  thee,  let  not  our  hope  be  vain. 

K.  Let  us  bless  the  Father,  the  Son,  and  tht 
Holv  Ghost. 

A.  Let  us  praise  and  extol  him  for  ever, 

MASS  for   the   BRIDEGROOM   and  BRIDE, 
at  the  BENEDICTION  of  the  MARRIAGE. 

1NTROIT.  Tob.  vn. -May  the  God  of  Israel 
join  you  together:  and  m;n  he  be  with  you,  who 
was  merciful  to  our  two  first  parents,  when  alone. 
And  now,  O  Lord,  make  ihem  praise  thee  with  a 
full  and  sincer  heart-  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Ps.  Bless- 
ed  are  all  they  who  fear  the  Lord,  and  walk  in  his 
ways.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT,  Exaudl  nos.— Hear  us,  O  almighty 
and  merciful  Gou,  that  what  we  according  to  our 
office  perform,  may  be  abundantly  sanctified  by  thy 
blessing.  Thro'. 

EPISTLE.  Jffy/i.  v  22,  33.- ^Brethren  :  Let  wo- 
men be  subject  10  their  husbands,  as  to  the  Lord; 


MASS  FOR  THE  BRIDEGROOM.  70- 

for  the  husband  is  the  head  of  the  wife:  as  Christ  is 
the  head  of  the  Church:  he  is  the  Saviour  of  his 
body.  Therefore  as  the  Church  is  subject  to  Christ, 
so  also  let  the  wives  be  to  their  husbands  in  all 
things.  Husbands  love  your  wives,  as  Christ  also 
ioved  the  Church,  and  delivered  himself  up  for  it : 
that  he  might  sanctify  it,  cleansing  it  by  the  laverpf 
water  in  the  word  of  life;  that  he  might  present  it 
to  himself  a  glorious  Church  not  having  spot  or 
wrinkle,  nor  any  such  thing,  but  that  it  should  be 
holy  and  without  blemish.  ,  So  also  ought  men  to 
love  their  wives  as  their  own  bodies.  He  that  loveth 
his  wife,  loveth  himself.  For  no  man  ever  hated 
his  own  flesh  :  but  nourisheth  and  cherisheth  it,  as 
also  Christ  doth  the  Church  :  for  we  are  members  of 
his  body,  of  his  flesh,  and  of  his  bones.  "  For  this 
cause  shall  a  man  leave  his  father  and  mother  :  and 
shall  stick  to  his  wife,  and  they  shall  be  two  in  one 
flesh."  This  is  a  great  sacrament-,  but  I  speak  in 
Christ  and  in  the  Church.  Nevertheless  let  every 
one  of  yow  in  particular  love  his  wife  as  himself: 
and  let  the  wife  fear  her  husband. 

GRAD.  Ps.  cxxvii.— May  thy  wife  be  as  a  fruit- 
ful vine  on  the  sides  of  thy  house.  V.  Thy  children 
as  young  olive  plants  round  thy  table.  Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  V.  Ps,  xix.— May  the  Lord  send  you 
help  from  his  sanctuary,  and  from  out  of  Sion  pro- 
tect  you.  Alleluia. 

Afler  Septuag.  instead  (//Alleluia  and  V.  is  said 

TRACT.  Ps.  cxxvii.— Behold  thus  shall  the  man 
be  blessed  that  fears  the  Lord.  V.  May  the  Lord 
from  out  of  Sion  bless  thee;  mayest  thou  see  the 
happiness  of  Jerusalem  all  ihe  days  of  thy  life.  V. 
And  mayest  thou.  see  thy  children's  children  :  peace 
be  to  Israel. 

^  <j£>Q9ipel4  Matt.  xix.  3,  6. At  that  time  : 

The  Pharisees  came  to  Jesus,  tempting  him,  and  say. 
ing:  Is  it  lawful  for  a  man  to  put  away  his  wife 


7°6  THE  NUPTIAL  BLESSING. 

for  every  cause  ?  And  he  answered,  and  said  to 
them;  Have  ye  not  read,  that  he  who  made  man  in 
the  beginning,  made  them  male  and  female  ?  And 
he  said :  "  for  this  cause  shall  a  man  leave  father 
and  mother,  and  shall  cleave  unto  his  wife,  and  they 
two  shall  be  in  one  flesh.*'  Wherefore  they  are  no 
more  two,  but  one  flesh.  What  therefore  God 
hath  joined  together,  let  not  man  put  asunder. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  xxx.  —  In  thee,  O  Lord,  have  I 
put  my  trust:  I  have  said:  thou  art  my  God  5  my 
life  is  in  thy  hands. 

SECRET.  Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
the  offerings  we  make  for  the  sacred  law  of  wedlockj 
and  as  thou  wast  the  author  of  this  work,  be  also 
the  regulator  thereof.  Thro\ 

The  NUPTIAL  BLESSING. 

After  the  Pater  noster,  the  Priest  standing  on  t?tc 
Epistle  side,  turns  towards  the  Bridegroom  and 
Bride  kneeling  before  him  and  says : 

Let  us  pray.  Propitiare. 

MERCIFULLY  give  ear,  O  Lord,  to  our  prayers, 
and  let  thy  grace  accompany  this  thy  in* 
stitution,  by  which  thou  hast  ordained  the  propaga* 
tion  of  mankind,  that  this  tie,  which  is  made  by 
thy  authority,  may  be  preserved  by  thy  grace.  Thro*. 
R.  Amen. 

Let  us  pray.   Dews,  qui  potentate. 

OGod,  vho,  by  the  power  of  thy  might,  didst 
create  all  things  out  of  nothing  :  who,  at  the 
first  forming  of  the  world,  having  made  man  to  the 
likeness  of  God,  didst,  out  of  his  flesh,  make  the 
woman,  and  give  her  to  him  for  a  help-mate  :  and 
by  this  didst  inform  us,  that  what  in  its  beginning 
was  one,  ought  never  to  be  separated.  O  God, 
who  by  so  excellent  a  mystery,  hast  consecrated  this 
union  of  the  two  sexes,  and  hast  been  pleased  to 
make  it  a  type  of  the  great  sacrament  of  Christ  and 


THE  KUPTJAL  BLESSING.  707 

his  Church,  O  God,  by  whom  woman  is  joined  to 
man,  and  that  union,  which  was  instituted  in  the 
beginning,  is  still  accompanied  with  such  a  blessing, 
as  alone,  neither  in  punishment  of  original  sin,  nor 
by  the  sentence  of  the  deluge,  had  been  recalled; 
mercifully  look  down  upon  this  thy  handmaid,  who, 
being  now  to  be  joined  in  wedlock,  earnestly  desires 
to  be  taken  under  thy  protection:  may  love  and  peace 
constantly  remain  in  her:  may  she  marry  in  Christ 
faithful  and  chaste:  may  she  ever  imitate  the  holy 
women  of  former  times :  may  she  be  pleasing  to  her 
husband,  like  Rachael :  discreet,  like  Rebecca  ;  may 
she,  in  her  years  and  fidelity,  be  like  Sarah :  and 
may  the  first  author  of  all  evil,  at  no  time,  have  any 
share  in  her  actions.  May  she  remain  attached  to 
the  faith  and  the  commandments,  and,  being  joined 
to  one  man  in  wedlock,  may  she  fly  all  unlawful 
addresses :  may  a  regularity  of  life  and  conduct  be 
her  strength  against  the  weakness  of  her  sex:  may 
she  be  modest  and  grave,  bashful  and  venerable, 
and  well  instructed  in  heavenly  doctrine.  May  she 
be  fruitful  in  her  offspring,  approved  and  innocent; 
and  may  it  be  at  length  her  happy  lot  to  arrive  at 
the  rest  of  the  blessed  in  the  kingdom  of  God  :  may 
they  both  see  their  children's  children  to  the  third  and 
fourth  generation,  and  live  to  their  wished- for  old 
age.  Thro'.  R.  Amen. 

COMM.  Ps.  cxxvii. — Thus  shall  every  man  be 
blessed,  who  feareth  the  Lord  :  mayest  thou  see  thy 
children's  children :  peace  be  to  Israel. 

P.  COMM.  Quasumus. — Mercifully  accompany, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  thee,  what  thy  providence  hath 
instituted;  and  preserve  in  length  of  peace  those, 
whom  thou  lawfully  joinest  together.  Tb.ro*. 
Before  the  Priest  gives  the  Blessing  to  the  People,  he 
turns  to  tht  Bridegroom  and  Bride,  and  says  : 

MAY  the  God  of  Abraham,  the  God  of  Isaac, 
and  the  God  of  Jacob  be  with  you :  and 


708  VOTIVE  MASS  FOR  THE  SICK* 

may  he  fulfil  his' blessing  in  you ;  that  you  may  see 
your  children's  children  to  the  third  and  fourth  gene- 
tion:  and  afterwards  enter  into  the  possession  of 
sternal  life,  thro'  the  assistance  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  who  with  the  Father  and  the  Holy  Ghost, 
Jiveth,  &c.  R.  Amen. 

Then  he  exhorts  them  to  observe  an  inviolable  fidelity 
toward  each  other  ;  to  practice  continence  at  the 
times  of  Prayer,  (especially  on  Fast-days  and  great 
solemnities)  and  to  persevere  in  the  fear  of  God, 

A  VOTIVE  MASS  for  the  SICK. 
'  1NTROIT.  Ps.  liv.— Hear,  O  God,  my  prayer, 
and  despise  not  my  petition  :  look  down  upon  me, 
and  hear  me.  Ps.  1  am  become  sorrowful  in  my 
exercise:  I  have  been  frightened  with  the  voice  of 
my  enemy,  and  at  the  distress  the  sinner  hath 
brought  upon  me.  V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Omnipotens. — O  Almighty  and  ever- 
lasting  God,  the  eternal  salvation  of  them  that  be- 
lieve in  thee;  hear  us  in  behalf  of  thy  servants,  who 
are  sick,  for  whom  we  humbly  crave  the  help  of  thy 
mercy,  that,  their  health  being  restored  to  them, 
they  may  render  thanks  to  thee  in  thy  Church. 
Thro'. 

If  the  sick  person  be  near  the  Point  of  Death. 
COLLECT.  Omnipotent,  — O  almighty  and  mer- 
ciful God,  who  hast  prepared  for  mankind  the 
means  of  salvation,  and  the  rewards  of  eternal  life: 
look  down,  in  thy  mercy,  on  thy  servant  now  la- 
bouring under  the  calamity  of  sickness,  and  be  thou 
the  comfort  of  his  [or  her']  soul,  which  thou  hast 
created:  that,  at  the  hour  of  death,  it  may  be  pre- 
sented to  thee,  by  the  hands  of  the  angels,  without 
spot.  Thro*. 

EPISTLE.  Ja?nesv.  13,  f6  — ^Brethren  :  Is  any  of 
you  sad  ?  Let  him  pray.  Is  he  chearful  in  mind  ?  Let 
him  sing  psalms.  Is  any  man  sick  among  you?  Let 


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him  bring  in  the  priests  of  the  church,  and  let  them 
pray  over  him,  anointing  him  with  oil  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord  ;  and  the  prayer  of  faith  shall  save  the 
sick  man  ;  and  the  Lord  shall  raise  him  up:  and  if 
he  he  in  sins,  they  shall  be  forgiven  him.  Confess 
therefore  your  sins  one  to  another;  and  pray  for 
one  another  that  you  may  be  saved. 

GRAD.  Ps.  vi. — Have  mercy  on  me,  O  Lord,  for 
I  am  weak;  heal  me,  ()  Lord.  F.  All  my  bones 
are  shaken,  and  my  soul  is  in  great  anguish. Alleluia, 
Alleluia.  F<  O  Lord,  hear  my  prayer,  and  let  my 
cry  come  unto  thee.  Alleluia. 
After Septuagesima,  'instead  uf  the  Alleluias  and  V. 
Joilowpngi  is  Sfiid  the 

TRACT.  Ps.  xxx. — Have  mercy  on  me,  O  Lord,* 
for  I  am  in  distress  j  my  eye,  my  soul,  and  my  heart 
are  disturbed  with  ungimh  and  pain.  F.  For  my  life 
is  spent  in  grief,  and  my  years  in  groans.  I.  My 
strength  is  weakened  iu  my  poverty,  and  my  bone* 
arc  shaken. 

(iDOtfpel.,  Matt.  viii.  5,  13.  —  At  that  tint: 
When  Jesus  had  entered  into  Capharnaum,  ther*? 
came  to  him  a  Centurion,  beseeching  him,  and 
saying:  Lord,  my  servant  HHh  at  home  sick  of  the 
palsy,  and  is  grievously  tormented.  And  Jesus  saith 
to  him  :  I  will  come  and  heal  him.  And  the  Gen- 
tu rion  making  answer  saith  :  Lord,  I  am  not  worthy 
that  thou  shouldst  enter  under  my  roof:  but  only 
say  the  word,  and  my  servant  shall  be  healed.  For 
I  also  am  a  man  under  authority,  having  soldiers 
under  me;  and  I  say  to  this  man,  Go,  and  hegoeth, 
and  to  another,  Come,  and  he  cometh,  and  to  my 
servant,  Do  this,  and  he  doe'th  it.  And  when  Jesus 
heard  this,  he  marvelled  :  and  said  to  them  that  foU 
I- : -wedhim:  Amen,  I  say  to  you,  I  have  not  found 
?o  great  raith  in  Israel.  And  I  say  unto  you  that  many 
*hull  come  from  the  East  and  the  Wast,  and  shall  sit 
3* 


JIO  A  TOTIV2  MASS  FOR    THE  SICK. 

down  with  Abraham,  and  Isaac,  and  Jacob,   in  the 
kingdom  of  heaven  :  but  the  children  of  the  kingdom 
shall  be  cast  out  into  exterior  darkness :  there  shall 
be  weeping  a«d  gnashing  of  teeth.      And  Jesus 
to  the  Centurion  :     Go,  and  as  thou  hast  believed, 
so  be  it  done  to  thee.      And  the  servant  was  he: 
at  the  same  hour. 

OFFERT.  Ps.  \\v.  —  Hear,  O  God,  my  prayer, 
and  despise  not  my  petition  :  look  down  upon  nv, 
and  hear  me. 

SECRET.  O  God,  by  whose  pleasure  the  mo- 
ments  of  our  life  are  numbered,  receive  the  prayers 
and  sacrifices  of  thy  servants,  for  whom,  in  their 
sickness,  we  implore  thy  mercy;  that  we  may  re. 
joice  in  the  health  of  those,  whom  we  now  appre- 
hend to  be  in  danger.  Thro'. 

If  t  lie  sick  Person  be  near  the  Point  of  Death. 

SECRET.  Receive,  O  Lord,  the  sacrifice  we  offer 
for  thy  servant,  who  is  near  the  end  of  his  [or  her] 
life:  and  grant,  that  by  it,  all  his  [or  her]  sins  may 
be  cleansed  away,  that  he  [or  she}  who  is  chastized 
by  thy  appointment  in  this  life,  may  obtain  eternal 
rest  in  that  which  is  to  come.  Thro*. 

COMM.  Ps.  x.  — Brighten  thy  countenance  on 
thy  servant,  and  by  thy  mercy  save  me :  Lord,  let 
me  not  be  put  to  shame,  since  1  have  called  on  thy 
name. 

P.  COMM.  Deux,  infirmitatis.—Q  God,  thesin- 
gular  aid  of  human  weakness,  shew  the  power  of 
thy  help  to  thy  sick  servant:  that  being  assisted  by 
thy  rnercy,  he  may  come  in  health  again  to  thy 
holy  Church.  Tim/. 

If  the  si'  k  Person  he,  near  the  Point  of  Death. 

P.  COMM.  lli-ctminu*. — We  beseech  thy  mercy, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  thou  wouldst  please  to 
fctren^ihe.i  with  thy  grace  thy  servant  by  the  efficacy 
of  these  mysteries,  that  the  enemy  may  not  pievai* 
against  him  [or  htr}  ai  *  •>!  hi--  r/,/ •//<•/  d*-at!i. 


MASS  IN'  TIME  OF  WAR.  ;ll 

but  that  he  [or  she]  may  pass  to  eternal  life  with  thy 
angels.  Thro'. 

MASS  in  Twic  cf  WAR. 

Tht  Ps,  Miserere,  p»  279,  <•'*  previously  said  or  sung, 
h  follows  the  Prayer,  O  God,  who  by 
sin  art  offended,  at  the  bottom  of  p.  363. 

1NTROIT.  Ps.  xxiii.  —  Remember,  O  Lord, 
thy  bowels  of  mercy  and  compass  on,  that  are  from 
the  beginning:  lost  at  any  time  our  enemies  ;hould 
prevail  over  us  :  deliver  us,  O  God  of  isra<  1,  f.-.mi 
all  our  perplexities.  Ps.  ib-  To  tfiee,  O  Lord, 
have  1  lifted  up  my  soul :  in  thf=r,  my  God,  1  place 
my  confidence,  O  let  me  never  be  put  to  shame. 
V.  Glory. 

COLLECT.  Dens,  gui  contcris  bet  la— O  God  of 
battles,  who  grantest  tin-  victor,  to  liio^-  that  put 
their  trust  in  thee:  •  ernfuil\  hi  ,r  the  ptayers . >f  us 
thy  M-rvants,  that  the  evil  iU*  -  ;  our  ciif.nies 
beii^  defeat i'd,  we  may  p!  wit  U.K 

gratitude.     Thro*. 

LESSON.  Jer.  xlii.  —  In  th.  c  days:  All  the 
captains  ot  the  warriors  came,  and  said  10  Jer.-  -niah 
the  prophet:  pray  for  us  to  the  Lord  .  God* 
And  the  word  of  the  Lord  canu  to  Jeremiah,  and 
he  calU-d  all  the  captains  ot  the  \  vl  all 

ih ••  people,  from  the  least  to  the  greatest.  And  he 
said  to  them :  Thus  saith  the  Lord  God  of  Isr  ie),  to 
whom  you  have  sent  me,  that  1  mi^ht  prostrate  my- 
selfwith  your  petitions  in  hi* 

remain  in  this  land,  I  will  set  you  up,  n<,.  ues.roy;  1 
\\ill  plant,  and  not  erase  you  :  t« 
ed  by  liu-  evil  wherewith  I  ha\    atll.i 
not  the  face  of  the  Kinj;  of  Bab\lon,  whose  force 
ye  div..        i    .;    him    not   saith  ,   for  I  am 

with   you   'hat  I   may  save   and  free  you    from   his 
hands.      And  1  will  shew  you  my  mercy,  and  ta.ke, 
3  O  a 


?1*  MASS  IN  TIME  6F  WAR. 

compassion  on  you,  and  will  cause  you  to  abide  ill 
your  own  land,  saith  the  Lord,  the  Almighty. 

GRAD.  Pn.  Ixxvi.— Thou,  O  God,  who  alone 
\rorketh  wonders,  hath  made  thy  strength  known 
amongst  nations.  V.  Thou  hast  by  thy  power,  de- 
livered thy  people,  the  children  of  Israel  and  Jo. 
seph.  Alleluia,  Alleluia.  Ps.  Ixviii.  Rescue  me 
from  my  enemies,  O  my  God :  and  deliver  me 
from  those  that  rise  up  against  me.  Alleluia. 
After  Septuagesima  (but  not  in  Paschal  time)  instead 
of  the  foregoing  Alleluias  and  V.  is  said  the 

TRACT,  Deal  not  with  us,  as  in  p.  117. 

0£>00p?U  Matt.  xiv.  3,  8.  —  At  that  time: 
The  disciples  came  to  him  privately,  saying  :  Tell 
us  when  shall  these  things  be?  and  what  shall  be 
the  sign  of  thy  coming,  and  of  the  consummation 
of  the  world  ?  And  Jesus  answering,  said  to  them  : 
Take  heed  no  man  seduce  you  :  for  many  will  come 
in  my  name,  saying:  1  am  Christ:  and  they  will  se- 
duce many.  And  you  shall  hear  of  wars,  and  ru- 
mours of  wars.  See  that  ye  be  not  troubled.  For 
these  things  must  come  to  pass,  but  the  end  is  not 
yet.  For  nation  shall  rise  against  nation,  and  king. 
dom  against  kingdom  :  and  there  shall  be  pestilences, 
and  famines,  and  earthquakes  in  places;  now  all 
these  are  the  beginnings  of  sorrows. 

OFFERT.  A.  xvii.— Thou,  O  Lord,  wilt  save 
thy  people  in-distress,  and  humble  the  eyes  of  the 
haughty:  for  who  is  God,  besides thee,  O  Lord  ? 

SECRET.  Graciously  receive,  O  Lord,  the  sa- 
crifice we  offer  unto  thee ;  that  being  delivered  from 
the  scourges  of  war,  we  may  be  placed  under  the 
\vings  of  thy  protection.  Thro'. 

COMM.    l*s.  xxx Incline  thine  ear,  O  Lord, 

and  hasten  to  my  deliverance. 

P.  COMM.  Dens  regnorum. — O  God,  the  su- 
preme ruler  of  kings  and  kingdoms,  who,  by  chas. 
Using,  dost  heal  us,  and  by  pardoning,  dost  preserve 


OCCASIONAL    COLLECTS,   &C.  713 

us i  pour  down  upon  us  thy  mercy,  that  resting  in 
perfect  security,  under  thy  powerful  protection,  we 
may  apply  the  blessings  of  peace  as  remedies  towards 
the  amendment  of  our  lives.  Thro'. 


Occasional  Collects,  Secrets,  and  P.  Co  nuns,  to  be 
said  ujtcr  the  proper  ones  on  days  tkat  are  not  dou- 
bles, at  the  choice  of  the  Priest  or  Person  hearing 
Mass, 

For  desiring  the  Prayers  of  the  Saints. 
COLLECT.  CWw/e.— Grant,  we  beseech  thee, 
O  Almighty  God,  that  the  intercession  of  holy 
Mary,  the  mother  of  God,  and  that  of  all  the  holy 
Apostles,  Martyrs,  Confessors,  Virgins,  and  or  all 
the  elect,  may  every  where  bring  joy  to  us:  that 
while  we  celebrate  their  virtues,  we  may  experience 
their  patronage  Thro'  the  same, 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  with  the  of- 
ferings we  have  made;  and  by  the  intercession  of 
blessed  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin,  and  of  all  thy  saints, 
defend  us  from  all  dangers.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Sumpsimus.  —-  We  have  received,  O 
Lord,  thy  heavenly  mysteries,  celebrating  the  me~ 
mory  of  blessed  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin,  and  of  all  thy 
saints:  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  what  we  per- 
form here  in  time,  we  may  receive  the  joyful  effects 
of  in  eternity.  Thro'. 

'For  all  States  of  the  Church. 
COLLECT.  Omnipotent — O  almighty  and  ever- 
lasting God,  by  whose  spirit  the  whole  body  of  the 
church  is  sanctified  and  governed  :  hear  our  humble 
prayers  for  all   degrees  thereof,  that,  by  the  as<« 
ance  of  thy  grace,  they   may  faithfully  serve  theeu 
Thro*. 

SECRET.     Grant  thy  servants,  O  Lord,  tru-  p. 
don  of  then  »'ms,  comfort  in  lite,  and  thy  perpetual 


714  OCCASIONAL  COLLECTS,   &C. 

protection:  that,  persevering  in  thy  service,  they 
may  always  obtain  thy  mercy.     Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Libera.  ~.  Deliver,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech  thee,  frpm  all  sin  and  from  all  enemies,  thy 
servants,  who  offer  their  humble  prayers  to  thee, 
that,  leading  holy  lives,  they  may  be  attacked  by 
f\o  misfortunes.  Thro'. 

For  a  Congregation  or  Family. 
COLLECT.  Defende.- -Preserve,  O  Lord,  we 
beseech  thee,  this  family  from  all  misfortunes,  thro' 
the  intercession  of  blessed  Mary,  ever  a  Virgin ;  and, 
as  in  all  humility  they  prostrate  themselves  before 
thee,  do  thou  mercifully  defend  them  from  all  the 
snares  of  their  enemies.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  Receive,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Al- 
mighty God,  out  devout  oblation-,  and,  by  virtue 
of  this  sacrament,  defend  thy  servants  from  all  ad- 
versity. Thro'. 

P,  COMM,  Sutnptis.'-- Having  received  the  offer- 
ings of  our  redemption,  grant,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
merciful  God,  that,  by  the  celebration  thereof,  we 
may  find  thy  protection  against  all  adversity.  Thro', 

For  Peace  in  a  Congregation  or  Family. 
COLLECT.    O  God,  the  .author  of  peace,  and 
lover  of  chanty,  give  to  thy  servants  true  agreement 
with  thy  holy  will  ;  that  we  may  be  freed  from  all 
the  temptations  that  disturb  us.     Thro'. 

SECRET.  Being  appeased  by  this  sacrifice,  grant, 
we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord,  that  we  may  not  be  bur- 
dened with  the  sins  of  others,  who  beg  to  be  freed 
from  our  own.  Thro', 

P.  COMM.  Pour  forth  upon  us,  O  Lord,  the 
spirit  of  charity  ;  that  thou  mayest,  by  thy  mercy, 
make  those  of  one  mind  whom  thou  hast  fed  with 
one  bread.  Thro', 

Against  Persecutors  and  Evil-Doers. 
COLLECT.    Hostium.-- Crush,  O  Lord,  we  be- 
seech thee,  the  pride  of  our  enemies ;   and,  by  the 


OCCASIONAL    COLLECT,   &C.  715 

power  of  thy  right  hand,  frustrate  all  their  malicious 
and  obstinate  designs.     Thro'. 

SECRET.  May  we,  O  Lord,  by  the  virtue  of 
this  sacrament,  be  both  cleansed  from  our  hidden 
sins,  and  delivered  from  the  snares  of  our  enemies* 
Thro'. 

P.COMM.  Protec'or  -Look  down  onus,  O 
God  our  protector,  sr  e  L*  from  the  danger  of 
our  enenves,  that  we  may  serve  thee  without  any 
disturbance.  Thro*. 

In  any  Necessity. 

COLLECT.  Deus  refugium, —  O  God,  our  re- 
fuge and  strength,  fountain  of  all  goodness,  mercj- 
fulh  give  ear  to  the  fervent  prayers  of  thy  church, 
and  grant  that  what  we  ask  with  faith,  we  may  ef- 
fectually obtain.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Grant,  O  merciful  God,  that  this  sa- 
crifice of  our  salvation  may  continually  cleanse  us 
from  all  our  guilt,  and  defend  us  from  all  adversity. 

P.  COMM.  Suv/psimus.  —  We  have  received,  O 
Lord,  the  sacred  gifts  of  thy  mystery,  beseeching 
thee,  that  what  thou  commandest  us  to  do  in  re- 
membrance of  thee,  may  be  a  help  to  our  weakness. 
Thro'. 

In  any  Tribulation. 

COLLECT.  Turn  not  away  thine  eyes,  O  most 
merciful  God,  from  thy  people  crying  out  to  thee  in 
their  affliction  :  but  for  the  glory  of  thine  own 
name,  relieve  us  in  our  necessities.  Thro'. 

SECRET,  Mercifully  receive,  O  Lord,  the  of- 
ferings by  which  thou  vouchsafest  to  be  appeased  ; 
and  by  thy  great  goodness  restore  us  to  safety.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Look  down  mercifully,  we  beseech, 
thee,  O  Lord,  on  our  tribulation :  and  turn  atvay 
the  wrath  of  thy  indignation,  which  we  justly  de- 
strve.  Thro'. 

In  a  Famine  or  Pestilence. 

COLLECT.    Grant  usr  O  Lord,  the  effects  of 


^16  OCCASIONAL    COLLECTS,   &C. 

our  humble  and  pious  prayers ;  and  by  thy  goodness 
deliver  us  from  this  famine,  or  pestilence,  that  men 
may  be  sensible  such  scourges  proceed  from  thy  an- 
ger, and  cease  by  thy  mercy.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  O  God,  who  nourishest  and  renevvest 
the  two- fold  substance  of  man  by  virtue  of  these  sa- 
cramental gifts  ;  mercifully  grant  that  by  their  aid 
nothing  may  be  wanting  to  our  souls  and  bodies, 
Thro' i 

P.  COMM.    Feed  those,  we  beseech  thee,  O 
Lord,   with  corporal  food,N  whom  thou  art  pleased 
to  nourish  with  thy  eternal  mysteries.    Thro'. 
For  Rain. 

COLLECT.  O  God,  in  whom  we  live,  move 
and  have  our  being,  send  us,  we  beseech  thee,  sea- 
sonable rain;  that  enjoying  a  suificiency  of  the  ne- 
cessaries of  this  life,  we  may  aspire  with  more  confi- 
dence after  those  blessings  which  are  eternal.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Be  appeased,  O  Lord,  with  the  of- 
fer'mgs  we  make  thee;  and  send  us  the  aid  of  sea- 
sonable rain.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.  Grant  us,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
wholesome  rain;  and  water  from  heaven  the 
drought  of  the  earth.  Thro'. 

1'ur  fair  Weather. 

COLLECT.  Hear  us,  O  Lord,  crying  out  to 
thee,  and  grant  our  humble  request  of  a  dry  season  ; 
that  we  who  are  justly  afflicted  for  our  sins,  may 
experience  thy  clemency  and  mercy.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  May  thy  grace,  G  Lord,  always  go 
before  and  follow  us;  and  mercifully  receive,  as 
consecrated  to  thy  name,  the  offerings  we  bring  for 
the  remission  of  our  sins ;  that  by  the  intercession  of 
thy  saints,  they  may  avail  us  to  salvation.  Thro'. 

P.  COMM.     We  beseech  thy  mercy,  O  Almighty 
God,  that  ihou  wouldst  stop  the  overflowing  of  r 
and  shew  us  thy  pleasing  countenance.    Thro'. 


OCCASIONAL   COLLECTS,  &C.  717 

Against  Storms. 

COLLECT.  Defend,  we  beseech  thee,  O  Lord, 
this  house  against  the  assaults  of  our  spiritual  ene- 
mies :  and  cause  the  present  dreadful  disorder  of  the 
air  to  cease.  Thro*. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  on r  praises 
and  sacrifices  in  thanksgiving  for  the  favours  zee 
have  already  received  ;  humbly  beseeching  thee  to 
grant  those  we  now  stand  in  need  of.  Thro*. 

\\  COMM.  O  almighty  and  eternal  God,  who 
both  bealest  us  by  chastisement,  and  preserves!  us  by 
the  grant  of  thy  pardon  ;  hear  our  humble  prayers ; 
that  we  may  rejoice  in  the  ceasing  of  this  storm,  ar.d 
always  make  a  good  use  of  the  grant  of  thy  favours. 
Thro** 

For  the  Gift  (/Tears. 

COLLECT.  O  almighty  and  most  merciful 
God,  who,  to  quench  the  thirst  of  thy  people, 
madest  water  spring  out  of  a  rock  ;  draw  from  our 
stony  hearts  the  tears  of  compunction,  that  etFectu- 
ally  bewailing  our  sins,  we  may,  through  thy  mercy, 
obtain  pardon  for  them.  Thro'. 

SECRET.  Mercifully  look  down,  O  Lord,  on 
the  offerings  we  make  to  thy  majesty  j  and  draw 
from  our  eyes  such  torrents  of  tears,  as  may  extin- 
guish the  burning  flames  we  deserve  for  our  sins. 
Thro'. 

V.  COMM.  Mercifully  pour  forth  into  our  hearts, 
O  Lord  God,  the  grace  of  thy  holy  Spirit;  which, 
by  sighs  and  tears,  may  make  us  wash  away  the 
stains  of  our  sins,  and  obtain  for  us  the  desired  par* 
don.  Thro', 

Against  evil  Thoughts. 

COLLECT.  6  A' mighty  and  most  merciful  God, 
regard,  in  thy  goodness,  our  prayers,  and  deliver 
our  hearts  from  the  disquietude  of  all  pt-rverse  ami 
evil  thoughts;  that  we  may  becoine  an  abode  Un 
thy  holy  Spirit.  Thro*. 


718  PSALM    EXAUDIAT. 

SECRET.  We  offer  thee,  O  Lord,  this  sacrifice 
of  salvation;  that  purging  our  hearts  from  unclean 
thoughts,  thou  wouidst  preserve  them  undefiled, 
and  enlighten  them  by  the  grace  of  thy  holy  Spirit- 
Thro*. 

P.  COM M.  O  God,  who  enlightenest  every  man 
coming  into  this  world;  illuminate,  we  beseech 
thee,  our  hearts  with  the  light  of  thy  grace,  that  al- 
ways entertaining  such  thoughts  as  are  worthy  and 
veil  pleasing  to  thy  divine  Majesty,  we  may  sin- 
cerely love  thee.  Thro*. 


Psalm  xix.  Exudiat,  for  the  King. 
^Xaudiat  te  Dominus    fecit  Dominus  Christum 


in  die  tribulationis :' 
protegat  te  nomen  Dei 
Jacob. 

Mittat  tibiauxilium  de 
sancto  ;*  et  de  Sion  tuea- 
tur  te. 

Memor  sit  omnis  sacri- 
ficiitui:*  et  holocaustum 
tuum  pingue  fiat. 

Tribuat  tibi  secundum 
Cor  tuum:*  et  omne  con- 
silium  tuum  confirmet. 

Laetabimur  in  salutare 
tuo  :*  et  in  nomine  Dei 
nostri,  magnificabimur. 

Impleat  Dominus  om- 
nes  petitiones  tuas  :*nunc 
cognovi,quoniam  salvum 


suum. 

Exaudiat ilium,  decoelo 
sanctostio;*  in  potentati- 
bus,  sal  us  dextrse  ejus. 

Hi  in  curribus,  et  hi  in 
equis  :*  Nos  autem,  in 
nomine  Dei  nostri,  invo- 
cabimur. 

Ipsi  obligati  sunt,  et 
ceciderunt:*  Nos  autem 
siyrreximus,  et  erecti  su- 
mus, 

Domine  salvum  fac  re- 
gem:*  et  exaudi  nos  in 
die  qua  irivocaverimus 
te.  F.  Gioria. 

Oremus. — Qusesumu?, 
p.  xlvi. 


ADESTE  FfDELES,    sung  from.  Christmas.Day 
to  the  Octave- day  of  the  Epiphany. 

ADESTE  fideles,  Iseti  triumphantes, 
Venite,  venite  in  Bethlehem; 


ADESTE    FIDELES.  719 

Natum  videte  Regem  A'ngelorum: 
Venite  adoremus,  venite  adoremus, 
Venite  adoremus  Dominum.* 

Deum  de  Deo :  lumen  de  lumine 
Gestant  puellsc  viscera; 
Deum  vernmgenitum  non  factum  : 
Venite  adoremus,   venite,  &c.  to  *. 

Cantet  nuuc  lo,  chorus  Angtlorum  ; 
Cantet  nunc  aula  coelestiiim: 
Gloria  in  excelsis  Deo ; 
Venite  adoremus,  venite,  &c.  to*, 

Ergo  qui  natus  die  hodierna, 
Jesu  tibi  sit  gloria  : 
Patris  aeterni,  Verbum  caro  factum  ; 
Venite  adoremus,  venite,  &c.  to*« 

The  following  Hymn  is  generally  sung  before  solemn 
Mass  on  Whitsunday. 

VENI  Creator  Spiri*     Infirma  nostri  corporis, 
tiis.  Virtute  firmans  perpeti. 


tus, 

Mentes  tuorum  visita, 
Implesuperna  gratia, 
Qnx  tn  creasti  pectora. 

Qui  diceris  Paraclitus, 
Altissimi  donum  Dei. 
Fons  vivus,  ignis,  chari- 

tas : 

Et  Spiritalis  unctio. 
Tu     septiformis     mu- 

nere, 

Digitus  paternaed  exterse, 
Tu  rite  promissum   Pa- 

tris, 

Sermone  ditans  guttura. 

Accende  lumen  sensi- 

bus,  [bus: 

Infunde  amorem   cordi- 


Hostem  repellas  lon- 
gius,  [nus 

Pacemque  dones    proti- 
Ductore  sic  te  previo, 
Vitemus  omne  noxium. 
Per  te  sciamus  da  Pa- 

trem, 

Noscamus  atque  Filium : 
Teque  utriusque    Spiri- 

tum, 
Credamus    omni     tern- 

pore. 

Deo  Patri,  sit  gloria* 
Et  Filio  qui  a  mortuisj 
Surrexit  ac  Paradito, 
In  saeculorum  ssecula. — 
Amen. 


[     72°     3 

FIVE  POINTS  or  RESOLUTIONS 

Which  muy  be  farmed  loith  much  spiritual  profit^  either  1 
before  or  after  hearing  J\Iujs. 


I.  I  absolutely  detest,  and  utterly  abhor,  collec- 
tively and  separately,  all  the  sins  I  have  ever  com-  '] 
milted  or  that  were  committed  by  others  from  the 
beginning  of  the  world  to  the  present  hour,  or  that 
may  be  hereafter  committed  ;  and  would  do  my  ut- 
most with  the  grace  of  God  to  prevent  them,  which 
1  therefore  humbly  implore. 

II.  I  totally  extol  and  applaud  all  the  good  works 
that  have  been  done  from  the  Creation  of  the  world, 
or  that  may  be  hereafter  done  to  the  consummation 
thereof:  and  would  with  God's  assistance  multiply 
them,  whose  grace  for  that  purpose,  I  earnest! 
invoke, 

III.  I  direct  all  my  thoughts  words  and  actions, 
to  the  greater  glory  of  God,  in  union  with  all  those 
£oo.l  intentions  which  the  saints  have  ever  had— 
now  have  —  or  may  possibly  have  hereafter. 

IV.  I  sincerely  pardon,  and  do  from  the  bottom 
of  my  heart  forgive,  all  my  enemies—  all  who  calum- 
niate or  detract  me  —  all  who  would!  by  any  means 
injure  me,  or  desire  that  evil  may  befal  me. 

V.  I  wi*h  I  could  save  all  mankind  by  dying  for 
each  individual:  I  would  freely  do  so  by  help  of 
the  grace  of  God,  which  i  therefore  earnestly  invoke, 
for  without  his  grac^,  I  can  do  nothing. 

Ex  Mi  'ss  alt  Rwaw 

FINIS. 


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